Hey all, I recently built a computer (a few weeks ago), and all had been going well. The temperatures are fine, and performance is swell. I am yet to open it up again and give it a maintenance.......
HOWEVER, recently I have noticed a buzzing noise, which I believe is coming from the power supply. It isn't extremely loud, but pretty noticeable. I noticed my motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 has a few pins for a "PWR_FAN", but I never noticed any suitable cable on the power supply that'd connect to this when building. Does this mean the PSU fan isn't working and it may be overheating (and buzzing)? I use an XFX PRO 550W Core Edition, the rest of the specs are found below.
i5-2500k
Hyper 212 Evo
Antec Three Hundred Two case (with two case fans by the CPU, none by the power supply at base)
XFX HD 7850
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
XFX Core 550W Pro
A-Data 120gb SSD
Seagate 1TB Barracuda
How else should I go about troubleshooting the buzzing?
Thanks in advance, TkTk
EDIT : IMPORTANT !
After listening and investigating over a few hours, with the PC closed, the buzzing around the PSU seemed less evident. Instead, the high pitched humming was more audible when listening through the higher position vent (no fan installed there) behind the motherboard and CPU in particular. Uh-oh.....
HOWEVER, recently I have noticed a buzzing noise, which I believe is coming from the power supply. It isn't extremely loud, but pretty noticeable. I noticed my motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 has a few pins for a "PWR_FAN", but I never noticed any suitable cable on the power supply that'd connect to this when building. Does this mean the PSU fan isn't working and it may be overheating (and buzzing)? I use an XFX PRO 550W Core Edition, the rest of the specs are found below.
i5-2500k
Hyper 212 Evo
Antec Three Hundred Two case (with two case fans by the CPU, none by the power supply at base)
XFX HD 7850
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
XFX Core 550W Pro
A-Data 120gb SSD
Seagate 1TB Barracuda
How else should I go about troubleshooting the buzzing?
Thanks in advance, TkTk
EDIT : IMPORTANT !
After listening and investigating over a few hours, with the PC closed, the buzzing around the PSU seemed less evident. Instead, the high pitched humming was more audible when listening through the higher position vent (no fan installed there) behind the motherboard and CPU in particular. Uh-oh.....