****ing annoying random crashes.

[wol-va-rine]

It's always sounded loud as hell, I used to plug the fan all the time before I got this CPU which maxes out the PSU and the MOBO's capabilities.
I'll have to make some money, what's a good, cheap 500W one go for these days?

you might want to see if you can borrow a psu from someone to be sure that's the problem, though replacing that psu anyway wouldn't be a bad idea, putting your specs into a psu calculator says you pull about 252w but that's without including any case fans or PCI cards (wireless, sound, etc.) that you may have running...

 

[Remeniz]

Antec Neo HE 500

 

[nevermind1534]

The PSU could be giving you bad voltages. And the wattage might be mainly for the 5V rail, rather than 12V, which modern computers use more of.

 

[Remeniz]

Stop the fan from moving >_>

Understood.

Go with a new PSU as previously suggested. I reckon it will solve the problem.

 

[Remeniz]

If it doesn't, can I hate you forever?

Yea sure!

Neg rep. me as well if you want.

 

[wol-va-rine]

If it doesn't, can I hate you forever?

I would go with the psu Remeniz suggested, even if you still have problems at least you will have a good psu to power any future upgrades, that's a decent modular psu at a reasonable price and your psu may be on it's last legs because of overheating, psus need to be cooled too...

 

[Remeniz]

It actually, when it was plugged, never got hot at all. Stayed pretty DAMN cool

The switching transistors that are mounted on heatsinks inside PSU's like to have a 'waft' of air passing by to keep them kool.

The thing is switching PSU's usually only get hot when you draw lots of power from them. I.E. Stress testing/Heavy graphical/Audio editing.

If your CPU fan was noisy you'd replace it. Not 'plug' it.

And fry your CPU!

 

[Remeniz]

LOL THAT REMINDS ME, once I had an old computer and i unplugged the cpu fan and it was on and i forgot about it for like 2 hours, came back to a blue screen, I'm like OH SHIT!!!

Ahhhh. The smell of Silicon Valley!

 

[Atomic Rooster]

You may want to look into a better cooling solution for the northbridge chip as they are known to get extremely hot and can cause problems such as the ones you are having.


As for a power supply, if you are planning on getting a GTX 285, they require at least a 550W PSU w/40A @12V. This would be a good choice of price, performance and quality: OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS 600W

 

[metin]

You may want to look into a better cooling solution for the northbridge chip as they are known to get extremely hot and can cause problems such as the ones you are having.


As for a power supply, if you are planning on getting a GTX 285, they require at least a 550W PSU w/40A @12V. This would be a good choice of price, performance and quality: OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS 600W

AR,
I would recommend a modular supply to him
Wish I would have gotten one
I have all these cables in my case that are just hanging there.