I just set up my first water cooling loop, and my MCP35x is too loud for my tastes. I'm wondering if this can be solved by turning it down with my motherboard software, or if my pump is broken, or if the MCP35x is always a loud pump, and my solution is to look for a different pump.
I have a small loop, so I wonder how low I can turn down the pump. It's the pump in a Swiftech Maelstrom, EK Supremacy, and Alphacool 240 Monsta. Here is a picture of the loop:
I am using Asus Fan Xpert 2 to control the pump. At very low speeds, as in around 1800 rpm, it is silent enough for me, but I'm concerned that my loop needs more flow under load. So I have the curve in Fan Xpert set to max out at 3100 rpm I and most of the time during gaming or heavy use the pump is at 2800-3100 rpm. This is very loud, much louder than any of the fans in my case. Is it normally so loud at this speed, and is it safe to turn it down?
Also, I recorded my whole build and put it up on youtube. If I did something to break the pump, it would probably be during the "filling the loop" step. The link to that video is here:
http://youtu.be/iyPLAPgNwvw
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