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Post Date: 2012-07-15
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    Posted: 15 Jul 2012 at 5:37pm
I just bought a Corsair 800W power supply and I decided to check out that pretty light coming from it and I noticed the fan wasn't spinning.  So then I decided to start up a game and I looked again and the psu fan still wasn't spinning.  I was emanating a decent amount of heat too.

Should I return this?
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First off I wouldn't reccomend using your computer until this is sorted out can't imagine an overheated psu is good for anything in your computer.
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Going to answer my own question, guess the fan is temperature controlled and only spins above a certain temperature.  I don't know, it still felt hot to me.  Is it normal for that part of the computer to feel warmer than other parts?
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I'm on my laptop right now, I shut the other computer off right away.  But now maybe I'll start it back up.  This is all so suspenseful as it could damage so much in my system...but I guess according to Corsair this is the way the psu is designed
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What's interesting though...there's no rule that says the psu has to stay inside the computer case.  I could just keep it outside of the case and therefore keep all that heat away from the other components
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The fan on the psu should be spinning especially while gaming which is when you are taxing the psu, doesn't make sense for it to not be on
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When I turn the computer on the fan in the psu starts up, sounds fine, and then stops and hasn't turned back on since.
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Like if you are gaming etc the computer is under load the fan does not come back on
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The fan doesn't come back on when I put a game on but I only had world of warcraft on but my cpu temp was at 60c.  I downloaded this program called realtemp to show the temp of my cpu and I'm going to run PCMark 7 benchmark program.  If the temp spikes and the psu fan doesn't come on then I'll know I'm up a creek and need to return it.

What do you think?
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your PSU temp can't be read by the Computer, Nothing is connected to it for Temp control, You'd have to manually do it with a temp reader.
How ever the GS series (I'm assuming that's the one you have)
Is automatic temp controlled.
You're fine

My PSU lights up 3 lights letting me know if anything is wrong with it and if it's not giving enough power.

but before anything, List us a spec of your PC
then we can proceed, we can figure out if your PSU is overloading or not, which is more important.

I've had a PSU overheat and fry on me before, Didn't effect my other PC parts.
all it did was spark and smoke up, the spark was realllllly tiny and the smoke you cant really see. but can smell it.



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Thanks for the response Kyu.

I actually decided to exchange this psu (corsair gs800) for a corsair tx750M.  I realized that as you said the fan is temperature controlled.  The only thing I didn't like about the gs800 was it made a buzzing noise as the fan started up and stopped.  Once the fan was running it was really quiet....it was the buzz of starting and stopping that was irritating.  Funny thing is that I believe corsair made this temperature controlled fan to cut down on noise but honestly when it was running it was very quiet...too bad it just doesn't run constantly.

At any rate this is what I have

Dell Studio XPS 8000
intel i7-860
8 gb ram
Nvidia gtx 560 ti
1 TB hard drive
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