Rosewill Hive 650W Loud Fan

[istari675]

I recently installed a second video card. Ever since then my power supply has been by far the loudest thing in my system while idle. I have all the possible power saving features in place to reduce the load on the PSU during these times as well. The PSU fan is constantly loud at about the same volume as my H80i fans on half max RPM. Shouldent the PSU fan slow down when nothing is under load? Is this normal or should I constant the manufacturer to get it replaced?

Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
FX-8350 @ 4.7
2x ASUS GTX 660 @ 1150

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Get a SEASONIC

Fan shouldn't be that load.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $49.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-25 19:18 EDT-0400)

 

[damric]

Yeah I'm not recommending Hives or Fortresses anymore. The only Rosewill I will recommend are Capstone and Tachyon for mid-high end, and Green series for very low budget.

 

[ingtar33]

yeah... Roswell psus have a long history of spotty quality... Even their best ones are iffy... so I gave up on advising them anymore.

 

[damric]

yeah... Roswell psus have a long history of spotty quality... Even their best ones are iffy... so I gave up on advising them anymore.

They are a lot like Corsair. They just put a sticker on it. The consumer needs to research what exactly is under the sticker.

 

[ingtar33]

yeah... Roswell psus have a long history of spotty quality... Even their best ones are iffy... so I gave up on advising them anymore.

They are a lot like Corsair. They just put a sticker on it. The consumer needs to research what exactly is under the sticker.

well... roswell does just put a sticker on it...

corsair, like xfx and antec all have someone else build their psus for them. But they generally do have "something" to do with the design... for example, there isn't a corsair psu built by seasonic that's a clone of any seasonic psu... there are similarities, but seasonic builds them to corsair's specs... same with the xfx and antec psus built by seasonic. Those psus are all generally superior because seasonic uses fantastic parts, but they're all unique units for the most part.

 

[istari675]

Thats a shame. I was reccomended that exact PSU by someone on here not too long ago. Guess I gotta trade that out for a better one soon if I want to be able to hear myself think when im just browsing the internet.