Loud H80i liquid cooler

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Hi,
ever since I bought my H80i I have noticed its been quite loud, I have installed the software for it and any drivers that were needed.
It is loud even when not under load ( even when just idling ), setting it to quite mode doesn't seem to help either. Is this the same with other people that have this cooler or is it just me?
 
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Yes, I do believe the H80i uses 120mm fans, so you could swap them out.
But if you're going to put the corsair stock fans on the case, they'll still be spinning and still probably make noise, but (in my personal experience) you can easily have chassis fans idle on 0 RPM when you're not playing games, etc. so they'll probably have a much quieter profile.

Toy around with fan configurations and profiles, eventually you'll find one that works for you.
I personally use an H100, and I have all my chassis fans idle on 0 RPM when the computer is under no load, and I have my quietest fans on my H100 spinning at as low an RPM as possible until the CPU temps go up.
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I second cirdecus's query. I'm literally in the middle of solving noisy idle speeds on my own Corsair water block, small world, huh?

If it's the pump, then chances are you have a defective unit. But I could be wrong.

If it's the fan, I think you can plug a corsair i-series cooler straight onto your motherboard and control the fans through the program "corsair link". If not, I'm in the middle of tinkering with getting fans to work properly on a drop-in, and it looks to me like mine are working alright without being connected to the block.
 
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Flynn K

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thanks guys, I'm pretty sure its the fans making the noise. I thought water cooling was supposed to be quite? I don't want to have to send it back so is there anyway possible of making the fans quieter?
 
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Water cooling has the capacity to be quiet; it isn't necessarily quieter, just generally more efficient.
As stated before, I have no first hand experience with Corsair's new i-series, but can't you plug them straight into a USB header on your motherboard and control the fans through Corsair Link?

What you could alternatively try, is instead of connecting your fans straight to the cooling block, is connecting them to the CPU header (or any fan header for that matter), and then control those fans directly via your BIOS or via a fan-control program.
These will allow you to control the fan speeds either manually, or to whatever profile you desire, i.e: turn fans off when CPU temps are under 40, speed up to 800 RPM when you hit 50, and so on so fourth.

And here's one thing everyone may have overlooked: Are you using the fans that came with it? I'm not so sure about the new ones, but the fans that used to come with Corsair water coolers are some of the noisiest pieces of hardware I've seen.
Replace ASAP if you're concerned about noise.
 
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Thanks for the reply.

I do use corsair link to control the fan speeds and I will try to use the motherboard for a test.
And yes I am using the stock fans that came with the h80i, but I recently bought 2 fans ( not for the cooler ), could they work? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004AGXHE6/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 .

 
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Yes, I do believe the H80i uses 120mm fans, so you could swap them out.
But if you're going to put the corsair stock fans on the case, they'll still be spinning and still probably make noise, but (in my personal experience) you can easily have chassis fans idle on 0 RPM when you're not playing games, etc. so they'll probably have a much quieter profile.

Toy around with fan configurations and profiles, eventually you'll find one that works for you.
I personally use an H100, and I have all my chassis fans idle on 0 RPM when the computer is under no load, and I have my quietest fans on my H100 spinning at as low an RPM as possible until the CPU temps go up.
 
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