High pitched noise coming from AIO pump / Corsair H150i Elite Capellix

[xMik3x]

Greetings, I recently upgraded my setup after 8 years of using my old PC, everything is fine however, I noticed today, after a few days running the system, that the pump is making a loud high pitch noise, I was wondering if this is something I should be worried about however.

 

Here's how I found out:

 

1) I know it's the pump because it comes from the CPU socket area, and while I know defective fans can generate noise or GPUs can create coil whine, which my GPU does but only while gaming or rendering, the GPU coil whine is very distinctive, is more low pitch buzzing in my case.

 

2) This one is high pitched for some reason, but the biggest clue was going inside iCUE and change the pump speeds, I had it set to Extreme since that's what I used in my previous AIO (H100i GTX 240mm) and had no problems at all. Changing the speed to balanced or quiet completely removed the noise from the system.

 

 

Now like I said before, I'm wondering if this is something I should pay attention to, or is it normal? Also is it caused by bubbles in the system? The sound doesn't really seem like bubbles to me, sounds electronic instead.

 

If need be I may be able to record the sound myself for further ideas, any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

 

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

On 11/18/2022 at 3:27 PM, xMik3x said:

Greetings, I recently upgraded my setup after 8 years of using my old PC, everything is fine however, I noticed today, after a few days running the system, that the pump is making a loud high pitch noise, I was wondering if this is something I should be worried about however.

 

Here's how I found out:

 

1) I know it's the pump because it comes from the CPU socket area, and while I know defective fans can generate noise or GPUs can create coil whine, which my GPU does but only while gaming or rendering, the GPU coil whine is very distinctive, is more low pitch buzzing in my case.

 

2) This one is high pitched for some reason, but the biggest clue was going inside iCUE and change the pump speeds, I had it set to Extreme since that's what I used in my previous AIO (H100i GTX 240mm) and had no problems at all. Changing the speed to balanced or quiet completely removed the noise from the system.

 

 

Now like I said before, I'm wondering if this is something I should pay attention to, or is it normal? Also is it caused by bubbles in the system? The sound doesn't really seem like bubbles to me, sounds electronic instead.

 

If need be I may be able to record the sound myself for further ideas, any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

 

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