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Lalalaprout · Jan 22, 2012, 10:17 AM

I bought all components back in May 2011 and put them together myself. Since the first boot of my pc the GPU fan did this but back then I wasn't worried, it was the first time I had a desktop rig with some big guns in it and I expected some more noise than with my laptop so I wasn't concerned at first. I went to see a friend this week and saw his own computer, which was so silent compared to mine, though he had a comparable rig... So I checked and indeed the noise wasn't normal.

I believe it is the reference cooler. It's not a vapor-x thing.
When you talk about the 3-pin connector of the "fans", do you mean a connector from the PSU ? or something inside the GPU ?

Jan 22, 2012, 10:17 AM	#8
Lalalaprout Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 11 (0.02/day) Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I bought all components back in May 2011 and put them together myself. Since the first boot of my pc the GPU fan did this but back then I wasn't worried, it was the first time I had a desktop rig with some big guns in it and I expected some more noise than with my laptop so I wasn't concerned at first. I went to see a friend this week and saw his own computer, which was so silent compared to mine, though he had a comparable rig... So I checked and indeed the noise wasn't normal. I believe it is the reference cooler. It's not a vapor-x thing. When you talk about the 3-pin connector of the "fans", do you mean a connector from the PSU ? or something inside the GPU ?