Hello Tom's Hardware.
A few weeks ago, I noticed that my tower would occasionally make a worrysome sound that to me sounds like "gasping for air". One of the fans will for two or three seconds make an almost extreme exhaling sound like it's trying to cool down a component in bursts. I really don't have any better way of explaining this sound.
At first, it only happened on startup and very very rarely after the computer was up and running. Since I'm an idiot and I smoke inside, it's not a mystery to me when a fan needs a good cleaning, so yesterday I cracked it open and went through every single fan, cleaned them up and expected the issue to pass, but now the sound is almost constant, it comes about every thirty seconds, sometimes more.
I am constantly monitoring the temperatures through 'Speccy' and because I never trust software like that 100%, I physically check the temperature too and the temperature fell a few degrees in average after the cleaning, but even before that there was no reason to worry based on the temperature or CPU useage alone.
My detective work has brought me to the conclusion that the fan affected is the fan inside the power source box.
I'm not a genius when it comes to computer hardware, so please cuddle your answers if possible.
Thank you in advance.
A few weeks ago, I noticed that my tower would occasionally make a worrysome sound that to me sounds like "gasping for air". One of the fans will for two or three seconds make an almost extreme exhaling sound like it's trying to cool down a component in bursts. I really don't have any better way of explaining this sound.
At first, it only happened on startup and very very rarely after the computer was up and running. Since I'm an idiot and I smoke inside, it's not a mystery to me when a fan needs a good cleaning, so yesterday I cracked it open and went through every single fan, cleaned them up and expected the issue to pass, but now the sound is almost constant, it comes about every thirty seconds, sometimes more.
I am constantly monitoring the temperatures through 'Speccy' and because I never trust software like that 100%, I physically check the temperature too and the temperature fell a few degrees in average after the cleaning, but even before that there was no reason to worry based on the temperature or CPU useage alone.
My detective work has brought me to the conclusion that the fan affected is the fan inside the power source box.
I'm not a genius when it comes to computer hardware, so please cuddle your answers if possible.
Thank you in advance.