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Does the direction of the pump matter ? I was trying to set it up so it applied minimal stress to the tubing.... the way this case is setup (Thermaltake H17), this was best way to mount it to minimize the stress. I was originally planning to mount it to the top as exhaust, but there wasn't enough room to do so (ram interfered with it) Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I checked all around the case and wires/fans/other components and pretty sure nothing else is causing this noise.

Hoping you guys can help a noob out here.... I usually go air cooling, but when I pulled an older build out of storage to use as HTPC,it was running too hot and loud I thought I would give AIO a try. Went with CoolerMaster MasterLiquid ML120 (was on sale at the time) and not 100% sure if this noise is normal and hoping to get some advice (installed it last night and its been running maybe for 2 hours total now) : https://imgur.com/a/Ox3fRU3 It's quite faint and cannot really be heard unless you get up pretty close. In terms of performance i am getting ~15C improvement/drops in temps were over stock cooler + freshly applied Arctic Silver 5 Thermal paste; so no complaints from that perspective. In case you guys were curious, the build is: CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 970 BE Mobo: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P RAM: 4gb DDR3 GPU: Gigabyte Radeon HD6670 1gb Storage: 1tb ADATA Su800 SSD Its my old rig from way back, and when a friend gave me some DDR3 ram, I revived it to use as HTPC. I have a GTX960 in my other PC that I will throw into this guy when I upgrade GPU soon.