Quote Originally Posted by Sideroxylon View Post
Noise is subjective per person but I'm a quiet freak also and consider my hearing fairly sensitive. At what percentage were you running your pump at? I run mine also with a miniNG and it's pretty much inaudible up to about 95% and then it's still pretty quiet. It might be the res you have it mounted to is making it louder than normal. With a cpu only loop you can probably run that pump at 60-70% and still have good flow.
Yes, I too think it may be the res. I was running it at about 60% (3000RPM) and even when I had it lower I could hear the electronic whine of the pump. It was driving me mad!

I'm thinking an MCP655 at level 2 placed on foam down at the bottom in the HD cage with a res top may be the solution.