I bought the gameXstream 700w PSU. I noticed the fan in the PSU is blue and of course it does not match my color scheme. This is where I need a little help. The way I see it I have two options:

1. live with the blue and get over it (not happy with this idea)

2. Open the PSU and change the 120mm fan to a UV reactive orange fan to match color scheme.

The issue I am having is has anyone changed a fan in the PSU? Does the fan plug into a PCB? What are the situations that will void the PSU warranty? Is cutting the cable sleeving that comes on the PSU wires and replacing them with different color sleeving violate the warranty?

I know the adage if you don't know what your doing then do not open the PSU, but I have to think that the manufacturer has to have some wiggle room towards changing a fan. I want to go with option number 2, but at the same time I do not want to kill any chance I have at a warranty either. I was looking at the PSU case picture and it appears as though you can take the top off and change the fan (I could not see any stickers that would denote the PSU has been taken apart other than the new fan). It looks like it would be relatively easy to change the fan (as long as I do not touch any caps etc...).

A link to the PSU I bought:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817341002

openeing the psu will viod any and all warranty's even the newegg rma. if you want tp do it, it's not difficult, some plugs plug into the pcb and some have wiresthen the plug then wires aand fan, others have no plug at all.

I have to replace a dead fan. Its still running on the mom in laws computer without smaoke flying out the back of it. Just make sure that you get a fan that has a similar CFM spec so that when it spools up under load it can cool the internal components of the psu.

i got the same psu.

I yanked out that fan and stuck i a new silent one. and just plugged it in with a 3pin molex to my mobo so i can monitor the PSU's rpms

Problem now is that my PSU's switch sometimes wont turn on and crackles sometimes

Even to change a fan? What about the cable sleeving? Are they just as picky about that as well?

Opening the PSU casing for any reason will almost certainly invalidate any warranties.
If there is no means of telling that the casing has been opened, then you could be alright, but then changing the fan will void the warranty as well so you're back to square one.

If you are really set on swapping out the fan, then you might have to accept that there isn't really a way around the warranty issue.

Anywho, if you do go ahead, then the fan runs off a two pin connector:



Shouldn't be too hard to mod a connector onto another fan.
As ccokeman pointed out, just choose a fan of a similar spec if you do.

Which one is the fan connector there Jammin?

The one with the cable that goes to the fan on the right hand side of the picture!

I just soldered the two wires together and heatshrinked them to protect against shorts. Just make sure the wire to the fan is the same length as when you started.

Jammin do you happen to have the particulars of the fan that is that OCZ PSU? Also if I have issues I could just swap the fan back to the original and send it in Was I right in my assumption that there is no way of telling if the case has been opened. By the looks of your picture that is an OCZ PSU, but I do not know which flavor.

As already mentioned earlier, there is usually a small sticker across somewhere that tells them if the warranty is still ok, if it's ripped, the warranty is gone.

Yes, I would be surprised if there wasn't a sticker somewhere.

The picture is a GameXStream 700W of course.
(Though all the GameXStream series will look pretty much the same inside.. there might be some slight variation).

By searching, the stock fan should be of a Protechnic Electric 0.45A, 87.85 CFM. 2400rpm @ 38.3 dBA flavour.
Can't guarantee it'll be that exact fan as things like that can be subject to change, but it should have similar specs if it isn't.

My GameXStream 700wt has a 3inch long big black sticker that says "warranty void if removed or broken" you have to remove or break it to open the case so yeah, it will definitely void the warranty.

So now all I have to decide is whether or not I want the warranty over the color. Decisions decisions, there has to be a loophole to this dilemma.

Who needs a warranty? Thats only a choice you can make. If it makes you feel better mine has been going for just over two years of 24/7 use.

WARNING!!!

When i tryed cutting wire's and soldering a new fan onto existing psu's fan wires i had trouble!

The PSU would not power the fan! i know i wired it correctly as i got my gf's dad who is a enginerr to look at it.

Seems the PSU likes its own fan lol

12v dc is 12v dc.

Something is either shorting or not making a full connection.

A PSU can not require a specific fan, it'll try and power a french fry if it needs to!

I'm not sure what the starting voltage on the fan controller would be, but if the starting voltage on the fan is higher it is possible it wouldn't spin up until some load was put on the PSU.
In that way some fans may work, while others may not (at least when the system powers on).

That seems a bit odd somehow. I am pretty proficient at soldering. I think I can handle it, as far as the warranty goes, I am not worried about it, but if I have to try and explain to my wife that I need another brand new PSU after I have spent so much on this build......well lets just say I would be minus some franks and beans.