Corsair H80i v2 fan speed is unbearably loud when gaming

Miitch Edwards

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Oct 3, 2015
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Recently purchased the H80i, the idle speed is and the noise that comes with it are completely fine, the pump is silent even under load but once you've been gaming for a little while the fan speed just goes crazy, I had to stop playing because It got the point where the fans were louder than the game, and its just not a nice noise in general.

I'm not very experienced when it comes to this stuff but i'm learning, its going out around 2100rpm when i'm gaming, sounds like a jets taking off. Are there ways to make it quieter or is it going that fast for a reason?
 

Miitch Edwards

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Oct 3, 2015
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Yeah I'm aware that if it the cpu gets hot then the fans need to be working harder but I thought that the fact its a water cooling system it would make it much quieter than this, but then again this is my first experience with water cooling so I don't actually know