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Seasonic PSU Ticking Sound

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  • Power Supplies
  • 620w
  • Fan
  • ticking
  • Seasonic
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July 17, 2014 12:41:15 PM

The PSU is the Seasonic S12 Bronze 620w. The fan has a ticking noise coming from it. I checked for things hitting the fan but I couldn't find anything. I have narrowed the problem down to two things.
1. One or more of the bearings in the fan is messed up.
2. It is trying to (undervolt?) the fan because it's not using a lot of power.
Background on the PC:
It has an i5 4670, PCE AMD 7850, 8gb of ram, and an ASRock H81M-HDS mobo. This system used to run on a crappy off-brand 500w psu. it would occasionally freeze and stall during gaming. (certain games that aren't necessarily heavy in power consumption.)
I upgraded to this PSU and it fixed that problem but now the new PSU has a ticking sound like I mentioned above. Could someone tell me if #1 or #2 (above) is the problem?

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July 17, 2014 1:07:17 PM

I run seasicksonics and there all nice and quite no ticking you may ask them on a exchange cause if its not due to the fan and its a component in the power system it may decide to under/over volt something and do good damage to your build

whats worth more replacing the psu before it ''may'' damage the other parts or keep it running and risk it getting the board or vid card + another psu??
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July 17, 2014 1:27:13 PM

junkeymonkey said:
I run seasicksonics and there all nice and quite no ticking you may ask them on a exchange cause if its not due to the fan and its a component in the power system it may decide to under/over volt something and do good damage to your build

whats worth more replacing the psu before it ''may'' damage the other parts or keep it running and risk it getting the board or vid card + another psu??


Should I email them about the problem or just apply for an RMA? I want to avoid shipping expenses if I can.
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July 17, 2014 1:42:01 PM

don't know ? you got to do what you feel is best and saves you any extra hassle..

it may be nothing but it may end up costing you big -- I'm not there for any hands on with it so its your call in the end
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