Fans in computer being very loud

[shadowss]

Hello im having a problem with the fans in my fiancé's pc being exstremely loud when its under just a bit of load not sure why they are so loud like i can hear them on the other end of the house in a 84 square meter house 

the gpu also sounded like a jet engine half of the time i fixed that with msi afterburner not sure why for some reason it kept going from 400 mem mhz to suddenly 7200 mem mhz in an instant and gpu 400 to think it was 2000 mhz 

so now wanna ask do any of you have a software or an idea as to why the fan's in the pc are so loud if i had to take a guess i would think its the aio fans cause sounding like it comes from the top of the pc where the aio radiator sits 

[mMontana]

Laptop or not?

In how many years has not been dusted off?

[shadowss]

3 minutes ago, shadowss said:

Hello im having a problem with the fans in my fiancé's pc being exstremely loud when its under just a bit of load not sure why they are so loud like i can hear them on the other end of the house in a 84 square meter house 

the gpu also sounded like a jet engine half of the time i fixed that with msi afterburner not sure why for some reason it kept going from 400 mem mhz to suddenly 7200 mem mhz in an instant and gpu 400 to think it was 2000 mhz 

so now wanna ask do any of you have a software or an idea as to why the fan's in the pc are so loud if i had to take a guess i would think its the aio fans cause sounding like it comes from the top of the pc where the aio radiator sits 

forgot to mention which hardware there is in the pc 

 

[shadowss]

1 minute ago, mMontana said:

Laptop or not?

In how many years has not been dusted off?

well we just bought it not too long ago and the guy we bought it from had dusted it i also looked it is dusted also dusted it myself for safety and its a desktop

 

[Mertrodome]

There's a program called Fan Control that should be able to give you some indication of whether the fans are running at full speed, etc.

 

But I suppose the first question is - loud in what way? Like they're running full speed always? Whiny? Choppy (like a vibration)? That may help find the root cause. There are some physical things you can check - are they connected to PWM headers on the motherboard or molex from the PSU? The latter is pretty much just on or off, whereas the former allows control over the speed, so having them in a way you can lower the speed might help. Are any of the fins damaged? Having one missing fan blade can make an uneven choppy sound. If they more just whiny honestly it might just be age and worth replacing them.

[shadowss]

4 minutes ago, Mertrodome said:

There's a program called Fan Control that should be able to give you some indication of whether the fans are running at full speed, etc.

 

But I suppose the first question is - loud in what way? Like they're running full speed always? Whiny? Choppy (like a vibration)? That may help find the root cause. There are some physical things you can check - are they connected to PWM headers on the motherboard or molex from the PSU? The latter is pretty much just on or off, whereas the former allows control over the speed, so having them in a way you can lower the speed might help. Are any of the fins damaged? Having one missing fan blade can make an uneven choppy sound. If they more just whiny honestly it might just be age and worth replacing them.

its sound like they are running at full speed like 80% of the time whenever she is just playing a game even if we put the settings on low still full speed its not broken fan or such already checked that they are connected to the motherboard so guessing its PWM headers 

[shadowss]

7 minutes ago, Mertrodome said:

There's a program called Fan Control that should be able to give you some indication of whether the fans are running at full speed, etc.

 

But I suppose the first question is - loud in what way? Like they're running full speed always? Whiny? Choppy (like a vibration)? That may help find the root cause. There are some physical things you can check - are they connected to PWM headers on the motherboard or molex from the PSU? The latter is pretty much just on or off, whereas the former allows control over the speed, so having them in a way you can lower the speed might help. Are any of the fins damaged? Having one missing fan blade can make an uneven choppy sound. If they more just whiny honestly it might just be age and worth replacing them.

also sound like they are going up and down in speed all the time 

[Mertrodome]

Just now, shadowss said:

its sound like they are running at full speed like 80% of the time whenever she is just playing a game even if we put the settings on low still full speed its not broken fan or such already checked that they are connected to the motherboard so guessing its PWM headers 

Yeah sounds like it - could try something like Fan Control of Speedfan (both are free afaik) and try a slightly less aggressive fan curve. As long as her temps aren't getting out of hand it should be fine.

 

I suppose another thing that could be contributing to noise is what it's placed on - could be that it's directly on the floor/desk and those are carrying the vibrations through the house a bit. Maybe some kind of rubber feet on the bottom if her case doesn't have them could help.

 

I'd try playing around with the fan curves though and see if her temps are stable enough at a slower speed.

[shadowss]

1 minute ago, Mertrodome said:

Yeah sounds like it - could try something like Fan Control of Speedfan (both are free afaik) and try a slightly less aggressive fan curve. As long as her temps aren't getting out of hand it should be fine.

 

I suppose another thing that could be contributing to noise is what it's placed on - could be that it's directly on the floor/desk and those are carrying the vibrations through the house a bit. Maybe some kind of rubber feet on the bottom if her case doesn't have them could help.

 

I'd try playing around with the fan curves though and see if her temps are stable enough at a slower speed.

ill try playing with the fan curve her pc is standing a wooden table and case has rubber feet 

[shadowss]

5 minutes ago, Mertrodome said:

Yeah sounds like it - could try something like Fan Control of Speedfan (both are free afaik) and try a slightly less aggressive fan curve. As long as her temps aren't getting out of hand it should be fine.

 

I suppose another thing that could be contributing to noise is what it's placed on - could be that it's directly on the floor/desk and those are carrying the vibrations through the house a bit. Maybe some kind of rubber feet on the bottom if her case doesn't have them could help.

 

I'd try playing around with the fan curves though and see if her temps are stable enough at a slower speed.

its def the rpm or curve or something of the sort cause the moment i downloaded the software it became quite when running at a lower % RPM 

[shadowss]

having another problem now though i would say the cpu is running quite hot and does not decrease with me turning up the fan speed

as in when she is rendering video's its running at an average of around 90 Celsius 

[shadowss]

Just now, shadowss said:

having another problem now though i would say the cpu is running quite hot and does not decrease with me turning up the fan speed

as in when she is rendering video's its running at an average of around 90 Celsius 

could this maybe be that it need new cooling paste on the cpu ? 

[Contreramanjaro]

Just now, shadowss said:

could this maybe be that it need new cooling paste on the cpu ? 

I was just going to say it sounds like a bad paste job, old dried up paste, or a bad mount.

[shadowss]

3 minutes ago, Contreramanjaro said:

I was just going to say it sounds like a bad paste job, old dried up paste, or a bad mount.

ok ill try to remount the aio and reapply paste on it 

[shadowss]

ill write back if i need anymore help but otherwise thx a lot everyone for all the help and for brainstorming with me 

[Poinkachu]

9 minutes ago, shadowss said:

ill write back if i need anymore help but otherwise thx a lot everyone for all the help and for brainstorming with me 

It will help people in giving you a more informed answer if you include:

1. What Cooler you're using for the CPU. Yes it's an AIO, but there's various sizes of AIO, and not all AIO is good. Not to mention old AIO might lose enough liquid in them or like the pump went bad.

 

2. What PC case you're using. Since all kinds of fans or whatever is pretty much useless if the PC case is a closed off glorified oven box.

[191x7]

7 minutes ago, shadowss said:

ok ill try to remount the aio and reapply paste on it 

Which AIO? Maybe it's gone bad.

[Contreramanjaro]

Just now, 191x7 said:

Which AIO? Maybe it's gone bad.

This is a good point. I bought a used PC with an AIO and the block went bad a year or so later. It was an Enermax, so hardly a surprise. I need to fix up that X79 PC... I could find something to with it it.

[shadowss]

26 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

It will help people in giving you a more informed answer if you include:

1. What Cooler you're using for the CPU. Yes it's an AIO, but there's various sizes of AIO, and not all AIO is good. Not to mention old AIO might lose enough liquid in them or like the pump went bad.

 

2. What PC case you're using. Since all kinds of fans or whatever is pretty much useless if the PC case is a closed off glorified oven box.

yea thx a lot for the feedback if i knew how to find out which aio i would love to send that but i sadly dont all i can see is that its a corsair and the pc case is a nzxt h400

[shadowss]

4 minutes ago, shadowss said:

yea thx a lot for the feedback if i knew how to find out which aio i would love to send that but i sadly dont all i can see is that its a corsair and the pc case is a nzxt h400

while doing a search on aio's it looks like a corsair h100i v2

 

[Poinkachu]

37 minutes ago, shadowss said:

while doing a search on aio's it looks like a corsair h100i v2

 

Well, if we're going by the release date of that AIO, which was 2014 iirc, it is now 9 years old.

 

for now though, try repasting.

You don't have to buy expensive paste, just try with like Arctic MX-4 or something. Just take care not to buy a counterfeit MX-4.

[shadowss]

1 hour ago, Poinkachu said:

Well, if we're going by the release date of that AIO, which was 2014 iirc, it is now 9 years old.

 

for now though, try repasting.

You don't have to buy expensive paste, just try with like Arctic MX-4 or something. Just take care not to buy a counterfeit MX-4.

already have some cooling paste i know works great here think it is actually arctic mx-4 just have to find it 

[Thepyrodex]

1 hour ago, Poinkachu said:

Well, if we're going by the release date of that AIO, which was 2014 iirc, it is now 9 years old.

 

for now though, try repasting.

You don't have to buy expensive paste, just try with like Arctic MX-4 or something. Just take care not to buy a counterfeit MX-4.

I was going to recommend this myself!  

[Thepyrodex]

6 minutes ago, shadowss said:

already have some cooling paste i know works great here think it is actually arctic mx-4 just have to find it 

I know that with my AIO it wanted to flop over and leave a large thermal paste spot on anything it can (my arm got caught lol) so make sure to have something ready to wipe the underside of the AIO right away so it doesn't try and flop down and make you look like the silver surfer. 

[shadowss]

41 minutes ago, Thepyrodex said:

I know that with my AIO it wanted to flop over and leave a large thermal paste spot on anything it can (my arm got caught lol) so make sure to have something ready to wipe the underside of the AIO right away so it doesn't try and flop down and make you look like the silver surfer. 

ok thx a lot for the advice