Part Way Through Build - Urgent Help on Power

toocanx · 23 Jan 2014 at 08:06

Hi, 100% installed as per the manufacturers instructions

"Is the fan tight on the heatsink "

It can be moved slightly with a bit of force but i think thats the design and how it fastens above the cpu so I believe.

"Have you set the motherboard to control the fan speed as the fan shouldn't need to run full speed all the time?"

There are four options in the BIOS and setting it too the lowest (Silent) it still does it

When the powers off if I manually spin the fan there is no noise however its like its the motor (which suggests its not catching against anything). Video here

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joeyjojo · 23 Jan 2014 at 08:41

I'd ignore it until I got the OS installed and then come back to it.

toocanx · 23 Jan 2014 at 08:49

joeyjojo said:
I'd ignore it until I got the OS installed and then come back to it.

I did get windows 8 installed and some drivers (then lost the will to live) so called it a night. One thing i did notice it doesnt spin no where near as fast as the fans on the gfx card

toocanx · 23 Jan 2014 at 12:59

operating system is installed - should I be RMA'ing it?

joeyjojo · 24 Jan 2014 at 11:06

In this review it's not the noisiest thing ever, but if the pitch is annoying you then send it back for a different model. I'd guess with the side panel on and in normal use it's something you could get used to though.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/low-profile-heat-sink-mini-itx,3639-20.html