Corsair H80i Pump Whine

[Airwaves]

I've had this cooler installed since I built my PC around a year ago but the other day I decided to swap the fans that came with the unit for the new SP120 green ones (as it's a green build) and I wanted those as the finishing touch.

I'm starting to wish i hadn't. Since I installed them onto the unit and fixed it back into place the pump emits a high pitch whistling sound. I did stop both fans it see if it was the bearings on one of those but it's definitely the pump.

Any ideas guys? I can still hear the noise now even though my PC has been off for about an hour.

 

[Davva2004]

If you can still hear the noise with your PC turned off, it's not your PC!

 

[Airwaves]

If you can still hear the noise with your PC turned off, it's not your PC!

More the case that it resonated within my ear canal for so long it was a permanent fixture for a while after I finished using my PC. I've been reading elsewhere and some people say to look into how the fans are seated (to tightly etc). I will look into this more later.

 

[Airwaves]

Well, it's not the fans. I'm so tempted to just throw money at the problem and get another h80i or a h100 as it's driving me nuts. Will a h100 or h100i fit into a corsair 350D? I do have an optical drive installed but I don't mind removing it.

 

[YouWhat]

Well, it's not the fans. I'm so tempted to just throw money at the problem and get another h80i or a h100 as it's driving me nuts. Will a h100 or h100i fit into a corsair 350D? I do have an optical drive installed but I don't mind removing it.

Yes a H100(i) will fit in and bolt to the roof without the need to remove optical drives.

 

[Airwaves]

Yes a H100(i) will fit in and bolt to the roof without the need to remove optical drives.

I assume you can't have fans on both sides (push/pull) though and it still fit? Not though it matters as I'm sure it's not necessary.

No-one appears to be able to help me on this really, I did read elsewhere something about air might be trapped in the system and tilting the case could cure it, it didn't. I've even as a last ditch attempt put the original fans back on and that changed nothing although I suspected as much.

It may seem a bit drastic but I've already ordered a H100i which should be coming tomorrow.

 

[YouWhat]

You might be able to go push pull, but when you get it tomorrow, you can hold it up and see will be the easiest way to check, fix 2 fans to it, then hold it up in place in case and see how much clearance you have with motherboard heatsinks and plugs etc

 

[Airwaves]

Well I must admit I feel a bit of an idiot. The H100i came today, I installed it with the same Static Pressure green fans and the whistling sound remained!

I can only assume it's the fans or more accurately the increased airflow going through the fins of the radiator making the sound? In any event the regular ones it comes with are back on and the noise has disappeared.

I'm going to sell them and just keep with this setup. They must be compatible or am I just unlikely some how.

if Corsair ever bring out green Quiet Edition fans I will get those. Why they haven't is beyond me when all the other colours are available.

 

[YouWhat]

Are they AF or sp fans?

 

[NeverBackDown]

Maybe its your speakers? Never know

 

[Airwaves]

Are they AF or sp fans?

The green fans I was attempting to use are SP.

 

[Airwaves]

Maybe its your speakers? Never know

Thank you so much for that golden nugget of information

My speakers were actually turned off throughout the whole procedure

 

[Wraith]

This noise, is it a high pitched constant note the kind that would pi## off dogs? I have a similar noise with the H100i at the moment, it's due to my fans being setup in pull, it's only really audible at low - mid speeds sucking the air through the rad fins, I thought it was coil whine at first.

 

[RamboOC]

I also have a high pitched noise and it comes from the PSU. its normal in most cases, but some emit louder than others, my antec tp550 is more on the louder side

 

[Airwaves]

This noise, is it a high pitched constant note the kind that would pi## off dogs? I have a similar noise with the H100i at the moment, it's due to my fans being setup in pull, it's only really audible at low - mid speeds sucking the air through the rad fins, I thought it was coil whine at first.

In the grand scheme of things it wasn't horrendous, just a noise that sounded above everything you was doing on your PC. Slowing the fans down meant you could hear it more clearly and speeding them up raised the pitch of the whistle so you just couldn't disguise it at all.

I'm a silence freak so I wasn't prepared to accept it. And, as I said it stayed with you after the PC had been switched off. Much like spending the evening at a rave or a nightclub and you can still hear banging music in bed a couple of hours afterwards

I have got some NZXT green led fans in a draw somewhere. I'm tempted to bring those out and try them considering that removing those fans has meant that my PC isn't as green as it was for that brief period of tinnitus I had!