Question on psu fan

phillyman36

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Hey does a psu have any sort of protection in case the fan dies? Just wondering what would happen if my psu fan stopped working how would I know?
 

VirtualLarry

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Some PSUs will shut down due to overtemp. Not many though. I don't know how many PSUs use a tach wire for the fan, some might, if so, then they can shut down if the fan stops too, but generally, they just overtemp, if anything.
 

phillyman36

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Some PSUs will shut down due to overtemp. Not many though. I don't know how many PSUs use a tach wire for the fan, some might, if so, then they can shut down if the fan stops too, but generally, they just overtemp, if anything.

Thanks I have a Corsair AX1200. It still works and is about a little over 4 years old. I know it has a seven year warranty but was just wondering what would happen if the fan stopped and i didnt know. Because i have a rug in my room its gets rather dusty. I guess at this point it doesnt make any sense to shop for a new one in fear of something happening.

Yes I know AX1200 way overkill for what I have.
 

C1

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None of the PSU specifications call for thermal protection (at least as near as I can see).

Just the other day I had to remove the grill cover on my ANTEC HCG-620M to let the 135mm fan be permanently exposed so that when necessary I can flutter the hub to re-center the axial pressure spring to prevent annoying fan clicking from the OEM ADDA fan. The PSU continues to operate when the fan is stopped manually. (It is a two wire voltage controlled fan & not a PWM variant.)

Based on what I see in the PSU specifications (ie, XT, AT, ATX Standards) is voltage and current level protection, not thermal per se. The conjecture is that at some point when a PSU heats too much, some voltage and/or current threshold will be exceeded and the PSU will either shut itself down or the MB might issue a shutdown (eg, based on P8.1 signal).
 

cruzinforit

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It depends, if it overheats, some power supplies have OTP (overtemp protection). I guarantee you that your AX1200 has this protection. On the other hand, most cheaper power supplies don't.

As an example, where I work we are in the midst of replacing our old Windows XP computers. I recently came across one of our old Optiplex 320 SFF PCs, which has a Pentium 4 Prescott in it. In addition to the Nippon Chemi-con KZJ capacitors on the motherboard puking electrolyte all over themselves, the hipro built power supply actually had a completely seized fan, and it had probably been seized for a while. This computer had been run quite a while this way it seems. The heat of the Pentium 4, plus the lack of fan cooling the PSU, meant that when I opened it up, every single capacitor in the power supply was bulging or leaking. Granted, this was an old computer, so even if the fan hadn't failed, it could still have had a few bad caps regardless. But the point is, despite the fan failing, it continued to run until we replaced it.

This won't always happen though. In a lot of super cheap power supplies, if they overheat, you will see fireworks under load, when the primary switchers explode. Hardware insights has a few good video examples of this happening under their el-cheapo psu roundups.
 
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