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Why is my cpu fan soo loud?

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It sounds like a jet taking off...no joke. It's kinda getting annoying. I noticed it making a lot of noise when I switched power supplies. It's seems like it's going 2000+rpm and it's constantly making an even shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh noise.


I just wondered if there's anything I can do to it to lower it's rpm's.

Thanks, ya'll.

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imanoob93 said:
I just wondered if there's anything I can do to it to lower it's rpm's.
Probably.
It would help to know a lot more detail though. We can't be guessing about what hardware you have.

Get a copy of HWMonitor and let us know what your CPU temps are and how fast that fan is actually running.

Ok hardware is:

4GB DDR2 G.Skill Ram
Antec earthwatts 430w psu
Seagate 400gig HD
Radeon HD5670
Pentium D 945 3.4 cpu
Intel i945P/PL/G/GZ mobo

And I'll install HWMonitor and let you know what temps, rpm, etc my cpu is at.



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It's not usual to have a just new power supply affect the speed of the CPU cooler fan.

I wonder if the CPU cooler might have got knocked around, jarred when the case moved or otherwise shook loose so it's not contacting the CPU correctly. If the CPU is running hotter than before - it's what is making the CPU run faster trying to cool off that hot CPU.
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Pentium D 945 3.4Ghz will be a very hot chip and need a lot of cooling.

perhaps it is the psu making the noise, a 430W psu looks only a little light but it might be forcing it to spin its fan up to keep itself cool.
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It's a high idle temp - that's for sure. And its probably the reason your CPU fan is screaming along at 3300rpm instead of the more normal 1000rpm.

As long as you're just testing with the video card in idle load it should be perfectly safe.
It's only when you'd crank up a 3D gaming session that the 5670 would draw a lot of power.
There's a good chance your 5670 draws less power (about 15 watts) at idle load compared to your old card.
I think you'll find that the CPU fan works the same speed no matter what PSU is hooked up.

Check that in changing out parts the power cable to the fan on your cpu didn't get shifted around. What happens a lot of the time that causes this noise is that the blades are actually hitting a wire. If that is the case just pull back the cables and tie them in a way that they aren't going to be close to the blades.
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check the bios to see if there are any options for controlling temp. I'm thinking that during the full power outage caused by the psu removal, the bios settings might not have been maintained, for everything else cpu, memory, hdd, they would auto configure.

it would be an indication that your cmos battery is dead/dying? which given the age of a d945 it could be.
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You don't want to arbitrarily lower your fan speed, especially with such a high idle temp. The CPU cooler coming loose as WR2 suggested might explain that.
And, an Earthwatts 430 wouldn't even break a sweat on that system, so no worries there.
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