A little follow up - the next day after running for about 20 minutes the noise started up again. Itook it outside this time and blasted everything again concentrating on the PSU fan. I then cleaned around the desk and got rid of the dust bunnies that we there, something I hadn't done originally...
A quick update - the CompuCleaner Xpert arrived today and I used it to blast the PC case, especially the fans and around the PSU, plugged everything back in, booted it up and it's been running now for well over 3 hours without any noise at all. I was slightly sceptical abouat it sorting it out...
Thank you all for your help and comments. I think I'll try the CompuCleaner Xpert first to save all the hassle for now. If that doesn't work then I'll adopt the suggestions like switching to AMD processors, storage and power supply - I'd like to have as near to silent as I can. I included a...
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I'd been thinking about replacing my existing PC which I bought from PCSpecialist 7 years ago but over the weekend the PSU fan became noisy, even after I vacuumed it out - there was a collection of fluff on the mesh below the PSU. This seems a good time to replace it so I drew up the spec...
