H60 pump noise

[Ivy Bridge]

I was playing BFBC2 earlier and started to notice a really annoying sound coming from what I THINK is the pump on my Corsair H60. It sounds a lot like one of the old IDE hard drives churning through a lot of data or something, and is constant. I might have to RMA it if it doesn't go away, temps seem to be fine but the noise is just way too annoying.

Before I did that though I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions that might possibly help remedy it without having to RMA it? (really don't want to use the stock cooler for like a month -.-)

 

[Arashi]

Give it a bit of time if you just bought it, mine did the same thing for the first 2 days. If the noise doesn't go away, replace it.

 

[kill dank]

I had the same thing happen with the H70 but it was about a month after I bought it. I removed it and sent it back to the manufacturer to fix it. I didn't even try to figure out what it was because knowing my luck, it would just spew water(or whatever's inside it) all over the inside of my case.

 

[Ivy Bridge]

Tried to just let it do it's own thing for a while, but after almost a week of the nearly constant grinding/data churning-esque sound I couldn't take it anymore and called up Corsair for an RMA. They told me to try a different header on my motherboard for the pump and sure enough, now the sound appears to be gone. I guess putting the header into a non-cpu fan header forces the fan (or pump, in this case) to run at a constant 100% which somehow resulted in quieter operation for me.

Just wanted to post it up for anyone else who runs into this problem. Disabling smart fan/q-fan also has the same effect, for anyone with a motherboard that supports it.

 

[Ivy Bridge]

Or not, the sound came back a few hours later. Fuck this thing I'm doing an RMA -_- will update on how it goes after it gets sorted out