Phantek aio

[Alex h]

Hi Alex, off topic from my broken computer...
How's the phanteks aio doing?

I ended up buying the capellix 360. Now I havnt even got my computer to really run yet. But had a chance to hear the pump (ie case wide-open).

While the pump head led looks much better then I thought it would look, the whirring pump noise has me concerned - meaning this is how loud it naturally sounds (given the info I've read now (forums)).

I'd hate to send it back because you do get 3 nice rgb fans and the commander core.

Going to have to evaluate it... I didn't hear it during the day yesterday because my kud was making racket all day with the TV blaring. But the case will be eventually be situated on my desk.

Hi no pump noise at all mate to be honest ive lowered the fan noise aswell it revs up when first switch pc on but then its silent and havnt seen it go over 55 now after hours off gaming so happy with it i might change fans later on ive looked at the silent wing 3 full speed fans but cant get them at mo as stock issues and im not be scalped on them

 

[Alex h]

I left the pump on the cpu header and left it on auto the fans are coneccted to the opt fan header which i made a fan curve for as they are loud

 

[Alex h]

The other aio which has a quiet pump is tbe asus strix and that can be had with rgb fans aswell but believe fans are loud again

 

[Alex h]

Ahh ok good to know, I don't care as much about the fans, eventually I'll try to match my fans throughout my case, ie 3 front 3 top 1 rear but don't know which ones yet... Fans I can do something about the pump I can't.

I don't remember if I asked you, how do you control the pump speed of the phanteks in the mb bios? Also the pump rgb its hooked to where and controlled by?

I went with the new corsair 5000x case so can use icue for my case fans, not sure about a phanteks aio pump rgb.

The pump is connected to the cpu header i left that on auto i did mess about with it in bios but put it back on auto and let it do its thing havnt heard it at all
The rgb goes straight to motherboard 5v rgb header

 

[Alex h]

Thanks for that.

Looks like there is a dedicated thread on the corsair forums 6 pages long talking about the pump noise... Too bad.
Again I don't think there was one review that mentioned this. But lots of people are complaining. And corsair already said due to design, they can't lower the pump speed.

Yeh that was one of the reasons what put me off was the noise from pump id read about it to be honest it was between asus and phantek for me phantek has a good customer support as for asus well wont go there also phantek has 6 yr warranty ssus is 5 same as corsair so i figured that into my decision also and was slightly cheaper but that was just a bonus the fitting of it was simple even a kid could have done it

 

[Alex h]

I assume CPU header is controlling pump speed. So what is pump rpm? Assuming it change speed dependent on CPU temp what is it's speed range?

Yes it controlled by cpu header i just looked at hwmonitor it says its running at 1214 rpmmin and max is 2020 rpm does that sound right thanks