Occasional clicking sound

Kolchek

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Hey,

I've noticed that my pc is making occasional clicking sounds and it's driving me utterly mad. They are often but not at consistent intervals. Seem to be more under heavier loads. None of the fans seem to be touching wires etc. is there anything that is more likely to be causing it/any way of sorting that doesn't involve me sending it in and losing access to it for a while?

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Kolchek

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Ok after some more messing about, I've managed to replicate it when swapping from the Quiet to Extreme profiles for the pump.

Is there any way to get rid, or do I just need to run the pump at extreme all the time?
 

TonyCarter

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Ok after some more messing about, I've managed to replicate it when swapping from the Quiet to Extreme profiles for the pump.

Is there any way to get rid, or do I just need to run the pump at extreme all the time?
Try it on Balanced (if that option exists in your version of iCUE).

Originally (on iCUE 3) my was louder on Quiet than it was on Balanced, but one of the later updates to iCUE seems to have fixed it.

Quiet for me is c. 1800rpm; Balanced is c.2400rpm; Extreme is c.2900rpm (on a older H100i Platinum though).
 
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