Mine arrived yesterday and the fan isn't extremely loud but it is fairly loud and doesn't sound like its running very smoothly, this is a pretty expensive PSU so I just wondered if this is normal before I send it back? Its not too annoying but if its not right then its going back!
are you running it with the fan facing up or down? Let it run for a while, it may just settle down; my bfg es800 was pretty loud until i just let it run for a while. the fan is a lot smoother and it's a lot quieter.
The fan is facing down, i've had it running for a while now and its still doing the same noise. I can't hear it over my other fans as they are loud and ready to be replaced but if I put my ear up to the PSU it kinda sounds like there is something hanging in the fan blades from inside the PSU (there isn't AFAIK.. checked with a flash light).
The replacement arrived after 9 days which is pretty poor but anyway, its no different to the last one. It's annoying how an expensive PSU has a clunky sounds fan. I would send it back but I can see that leaving me without a PSU for weeks. It really does sound like there is a cable or something inside the unit thats hanging down into the fan blades (which there isn't as far as I can see).
Grr I hate sending stuff back to Scan.. the courier picked the last one up, the next day the RMA status said it has been tested and a replacement was going to be issues. Over a week later I emailed them asking where my replacement was and they must have forgot as I had an invoice placed within an hour of me sending the email. I don't want to go another 9 days without my main rig Two noisy PSUs in a row? must be a bad batch or something. I hope they will issue a refund, then I can choose something else.
Heh, I've just had two bad PSUs in a row from scan too, a Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 650w. They weren't noisy, they just wouldn't work
