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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   1083 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 20, 2024

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I suspect there's something wrong with the fans.

The VRM fan seems to be the culprit for the annoying noise. The noise changes when I regulate its rpm in Argus. Setting it to bios controlled seems to reduce it the most. It's now noise free at idle. That's the most important thing.

The fans pointed at the radiator seem to be a little off-kilter. The graphic on them around the centerpoint moves.

The fans that were delivered with my case were also messed up. They made a much more high frequent irregular noise, due to bad bearings I think. I had to replace them.

Is there an unusual amount of shittiness in the fan production industry right now?

Edit: I swapped the connections. I thought I had VRM on cpu_fan1. It was on 2. Radiator fans was on 1. Now, with vrm on cpu_fan1 and radiator fans on cpu_fan2, the noise is mostly gone, only appearing briefly during ramp-up! Yay! Hardware idiosyncracies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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