Rattle with Corsair 450VX when I scroll in web browser
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:28 pm
A new Corsair 450VX power supply is making a high pitched rattling noise when I scroll around in a full screen web browser.
Putting constant load on one of the CPU's cores turns that into an almost steady high pitched whine.
The whine is inaudible from about 6 feet away, but loud enough to be annoying at 3 feet where I sit. I can hear it over the stock fan on the CPU (4600+ X2 65W). Case is an Antec Solo with fan set to low.
Here's the really weird part: Switching out the old passive ATI X300 for a factory overclocked GeForce 9600GT provokes kind of opposite symptoms - the power supply whines all the time, and becomes silent when I scroll in the full screen web browser.
I can get the power supply refunded or replaced. Is this noise normal?
Putting constant load on one of the CPU's cores turns that into an almost steady high pitched whine.
The whine is inaudible from about 6 feet away, but loud enough to be annoying at 3 feet where I sit. I can hear it over the stock fan on the CPU (4600+ X2 65W). Case is an Antec Solo with fan set to low.
Here's the really weird part: Switching out the old passive ATI X300 for a factory overclocked GeForce 9600GT provokes kind of opposite symptoms - the power supply whines all the time, and becomes silent when I scroll in the full screen web browser.
I can get the power supply refunded or replaced. Is this noise normal?