Strange noise

[Shadowblade]

I've been on quite a lot often complaining about a strange noise coming from my PC that is hard to explain, however I finally managed to get a good recording of the noise. This noise sometimes starts whenever I'm loading up a game, but it also plays whenever my computer is just idling. I fear its one of my HDDs, my C: specifically. However at times it almost sounds like flowing water so I wonder if it could be my water cooling system? I have CrystalDiskInfo and it says my HDD health is "Good".

Here is the noise https://voca.ro/1m9iWCCtzfPJ

[plat]

Yes, if you search online for hard drive "click of death," it's usually very rhythmic. However, you CAN have good HDD health and the mechanical head would be dying. But anyway.

I'm intrigued by the idea of air in the water pump, or some kind of malfunction with that as was already mentioned.

Obviously you want to try to nip it in the bud whatever it is.

Re: Fractal fan--OK so it was a singular bad fan. I plan to stick to be quiet! anyway from now on.

[Illusion of Progress]

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Re: Fractal fan--OK so it was a singular bad fan. I plan to stick to be quiet! anyway from now on.

Oh I figured it was. I was just "thinking out loud" if maybe that's all it was, or if maybe Fractal's fans aren't that great, because I happened to immediately switch away from mine. I know their cases are often great but haven't heard anything one way or another about fans, so I was simply curious with your experience.

[Shadowblade]

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fan bearing noise is never consistent
sometime it will slow a fan, but not always

Agree with this, my prior PSU had a fan noise but it wasn't constant. It was more a chirp/squeak but fan noises won't always be constant with it rotating.

Thats actually a noise I had an issue with a long time ago, I'll have to check out all my fans then./

[plat]

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Oh I figured it was. I was just "thinking out loud" if maybe that's all it was, or if maybe Fractal's fans aren't that great,

Oh, for sure but honestly, I'd expected better from Fractal. My case (Meshify C) isn't all that great but it was one of like maybe two that Brooklyn Micro Center had during the height of the pandemic. Choices were very, very few. Except for that, you had either 40 USD garbage or cases upwards of 200 USD. Hardly anything in between. And no Lian Li, which was my first choice.


I don't know if Fractal uses the same fan in each of its cases, low to high end. Oh well. You can buy a lemon of anything any time and not have a clue until it's revealed.

By the way, if a fan is dying, it's very obvious. You can practically home in on it by touch even. And it's a rattling noise, off and on in its early stages.

[kingjames488]

heh, following some sounds with my PC also and worring about my hard drives...

I'm scared of links cuz I'm a caveman or something... but I can say a few things.

first off, open ur PC and touch things a bit... but not the wrong things.... like touch the fan housings and the cases of the hard drives(not the PCBs!), maybe bend over and listen to them... (this is one thing I love about mechanical drives, you can actually hear them.).

you should be able to tell where the problem is... to an extent.

that being said mechanical hard drives can be funny things. generally they either fail within a month or 2 of purchase or work almost forever. that being said they CAN fail randomly and those are the cases you hear about... though I've seen PCs with hard drives that click and clack like crazy and still work fine for decades.

the drive health thing isn't actually all that useful from what I've seen and heard, it won't really tell you there's an error until there are errors reading the drive, and by that point you pretty much know it's broke.

like, I have an old drive I use as a redundant backup drive at this point that's loud and randomly dismounts it's self but shows as "healthy"... it technically works but I don't trust it for anything vital anymore.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just open the side panel and use the paper towel roll to the ear trick.

Also you could disconnect all case fans to rule those out and focus on CPU cooler or pump, mechanical drive(s), PSU fan. Most GPUs run at very low rpm fan speed or may even turn off one or more fans when idle after loading the BIOS/OS. So should be easy to rule out your GPU

[Guydodge]

sounds like a fan hitting/rubbing metal i would check your power supply fan

[_I_]

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sounds like a fan hitting/rubbing metal i would check your power supply fan

thats what a bad bushing in the fan sounds like too
but rattles/shakes/pulses for a second and goes away and comes back

if it was hitting something it would always make the noise or not spin and constantly pulse