I got a PC from garage sale, and within a few weeks the mesh on the
power supply is coated in lint. It is sucking air in, whereas my other desktops are blowing air out the back of the power supply.
It is a Silverstone 500 watt. Perhaps the fan got installed backwards?
Or otherwise would it be a special model to go with a case having a
matching vent for power supply?
Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> wrote:
I got a PC from garage sale, and within a few weeks the mesh on the
power supply is coated in lint. It is sucking air in, whereas my other desktops are blowing air out the back of the power supply.
It is a Silverstone 500 watt. Perhaps the fan got installed backwards?
Or otherwise would it be a special model to go with a case having a matching vent for power supply?
In all my years I never had a PSU that sucked air in. Possibly a mistake
in assembly, either fan the wrong way around or soldered to the
circuitboard with the terminals reversed?
Shouldn't take too much time or effort to fix.
Although there are modern cases where the PSU lives at the bottom, and
maybe
cold air entering from there might make sense? But I think they do things >like having a separate air tunnel for the PSU so it doesn't mix with CPU
air.
I got a PC from garage sale, and within a few weeks the mesh on the
power supply is coated in lint. It is sucking air in, whereas my other desktops are blowing air out the back of the power supply.
It is a Silverstone 500 watt. Perhaps the fan got installed backwards?
Or otherwise would it be a special model to go with a case having a
matching vent for power supply?
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