"Gamer Question. How loud does this PSU get under load ? I have a Corsair HX 750 with my R9 280 the ramp up in fan noise is more then I want
286214
I am running sli gtx770's and there is absolutely no noise. Also have not heard any type of coil whine and cannot tell when the fan is on unless I am looking at it through the bottom of my case.
286215
Heh. Dead silent.Why? the fan is not running! Ever! There is a switch in the back for ECO mode. Unless the power supply gets hot, it does not spin the fan. Since I have a GTX980 with its lower power draw (Haswell o/c to 4.3GHz, air cooled), the power draw has never been enough to make the fan spin that I have ever seen. The fan is on the top so the heat can go into my case through the fan mesh and get sucked out by my case fans. Works well and the top of the power supply is barely warm.
493623
No, I don't think the fan turns off at lower loads. It's a very quiet psu that I can barely hear.
2007949
In the overview it says the fan turns off when not needed. The powersupplies does not put out the heat others do. Best bet for better ansewer go to the Amazon site under the Corsair HX Professional series 750, and look in the overview it will go over it better than I can. THanks for wrightting. Randy PS I relay like mine a lot.
118228
I have never heard the fan on this card but I am not a real big gamer, to me so what if it is. chances are if your a gamer ill be drowned out by loud exhaust or gunfire. I own 2 of these cards each in a gigabyte ga970ud3 mb & have had no troubles.
864976
What Zachary said. 650 watts is more than enough power to run that card and a bunch of HDDs, disc drives, and peripherals. You picked a great card, too. Not too loud or hot, plays today's games with maxed out settings at a consign at 60 fps or higher and I've had no driver issues to date. Happy gaming.
1089934
I play Battlefield 4 and Guild Wars 2. Both keep a smooth steady 60fps. It would probably be higher if my system was a little beefier. I have an AMD940 with ddr2 ram. I don't overclock, and it always stays a tad below 70c under load. My machine gets a little loud when everything is running at full speed, but Im not sure if I can hear the GPU fan above the power supply and CPU fan which will speed up under load. I think its a great card for the money.
222544
Well, using the AMD Catalyst center, what is the speed you have? Mine runs 50-60% and is not that loud. It also depends on the case you have, remember that loudness depends on how intensive the game is, and in BF3 it is considered normal. The dual fan card will be quiet, because it has double dissipation.
1741211
The R9 280X will pull around 225 Watts at full blast. You should be ok with the rest of your hardware and a 750 Watt power supply.
1906991
The one I got booted up fine and was nice and quiet during idle on the desktop. But load up an intensive game, and the fan was very noticeable. I could hear it from outside the room, down the hall, and downstairs. I returned this M12II and got a Seasonic X-850 GOLD Seasonic X-850(SS-850KM3 Active PFC F3) 850W 80 Plus Gold ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply instead, and have been happy with it for the last 2 years and counting.
1855955
Neither, the card runs fairly cool and actually, I hear far less noise than I used to. At first I did not think the card was booting it was so quiet :p note: I have not attempted overclocking or editing the fan speeds at all. Just out of the box usage.
964263
I have a single unit (not overclocked because I don't wan't to void the manufacturer's warranty) powered by a Corsair RM750. It's a well-built, gold certified modular psu with a massive heat sink. I've had it running 24/7 and have had exactly zero issues with it.
2260590
As long as your fan is clean, there really shouldn't be much noise under different load mods. I haven't heard that the fan is an issue.
1544089
It was not as loud as my other fans...psu cooler and video card. It was a great little psu for the build I used it in! It powered i5 2500k overclocked and two gtx 560 ti's in sli with no problems! Now days, two 670's would not use any more power than did the 560 ti's
320270
corsair h70 radiator & c.p.u water pump my p.c is loud but it has had an amazing life I have superclocked this to he'll. & back pushing it to break a few forum records just to send it to its death so I could get on to the newer Intel C.P.U's but no its a monster!
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Hmm yeah that's weird, no its not suppose to be loud. Id suggest taking a video with your phone.. sending to your email then id shoot an email to Corsair customer support with the video you took. They have great customer service they should be able to help if any problems may exist. but for your question, no the fan isn't suppose to be loud. Mines also sitting under a desk.ASUS CM6730 Windows 8.1 64-bitIntel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.90GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.9GHzCorsair CX600m 600w power supplyVengeance Pro Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 DRAM 16NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 TiSound Blaster Z Hmm yeah that's weird, no its not suppose to be loud. Id suggest taking a video with your phone.. sending to your email then id shoot an email to Corsair customer support with the video you took. They have great customer service they should be able to help if any problems may exist. but for your question, no the fan isn't suppose to be loud. Mines also sitting under a desk.ASUS CM6730 Windows 8.1 64-bitIntel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.90GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.9GHzCorsair CX600m 600w power supplyVengeance Pro Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 DRAM 16NVIDIA GeForce GTX... » Read More Hmm yeah that's weird, no its not suppose to be loud. Id suggest taking a video with your phone.. sending to your email then id shoot an email to Corsair customer support with the video you took. They have great customer service they should be able to help if any problems may exist. but for your question, no the fan isn't suppose to be loud. Mines also sitting under a desk.ASUS CM6730 Windows 8.1 64-bitIntel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.90GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.9GHzCorsair CX600m 600w power supplyVengeance Pro Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 DRAM 16NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 TiSound Blaster Z « Show Less
2077275
Yes it is as quiet as can be expected...usually the noise generated from a PSU fan is the bearings starting to wear...we had a great experience with this fan...hope this helps..
1695921
I have one at work in an open-case tower and I've never noticed it make any significant amount of noise whether the card is fully utilized or idle. It's pretty quiet overall.