EK AIO 360 Pump noise... multiple RMA.. ?

[Elric82]

Hi

I have an EK Aio 360, temps are all fine, it's mounted on the top rad.

However.. I had to RMA three times because of pump noise issue. It's fine at the installation and for a month but after that the pump starts to be noisy above 65 to 80% depending on the uniot.





It's really annoying, it sounds like air bubbles but i can't manage to get rid of those if someone has a miracle solution

Someone offers me to sell me an ELITE version which has a more powerful pump, would that be of any help?

I was considering to buy a Ryujin or go back to the Arctic LF2 but I had some issues with it (noisy vrm fan)

 

[kirbyrj]

Why are you adjusting the pump %? Isn't it designed to stay at one speed? I have the 360 Basic plugged into the AIO header on my motherboard and have had no issues like you're describing.

I just checked and mine is at 2600 RPM according to motherboard monitoring software.

 

[Elric82]

I did not, it was at 100% without any issue for more than a month and since two days it's noisy as you can hear in the video. So I had to lower it to 65% because it was driving me nuts.
i tried to share the radiator, tilt the case, plug the pump on AIO header instead of CPU, nothing changed.
I've RMA 3 times for the same issue,.

 

[kirbyrj]

I did not, it was at 100% without any issue for more than a month and since two days it's noisy as you can hear in the video. So I had to lower it to 65% because it was driving me nuts.
i tried to share the radiator, tilt the case, plug the pump on AIO header instead of CPU, nothing changed.
I've RMA 3 times for the same issue,.

That's definitely strange and not what I've experienced so far with mine.

 

[pendragon1]

tilt those tubes down towards the gpu, lean the case backwards and get the tube fittings on the block as close to vertical as possible, give it a couple shakes. see if that helps.