EVGA Hybrid Upgrade 1080FE Kit Buzz

[nged72]

Good Morning,

I just installed the 1080FE EVGA Upgrade Hybrid Kit.

It seems that there is a constant audible buzzing from the pump which I have read is "normal"? I can hear it sitting 3 feet away when the room is silent. This isn't so much an issue since there is always something playing in the background, but I was curious if it is normal or not?

Here is a picture of my install (not sure if the hoses curling upward could be causing it).

 

[nged72]

hmmm..... don't know ? thing is you se this a lot from guys using them kits not so much if at all from factory ready made cards ?

that's why I said I wonder if these ''kits'' are coolers that did not test out to be used on factory assembled cards ??? I have to turn off all my case fans and cpu fan to even hear mine and with that get on my hand and knees and put my head /ear right up to it . I have no noise issues at all from the pump or the cards fans ..

to be honest , I just don't know what to think or say on this ?? just sounds like I would not be too happy knowing how this hybrid card is behaving and quite

from my experience with my hybrid [980ti] card just done sound like ''normal'' to me [opinion]

http://imgur.com/BualSW7

maybe just something up with a pascal card and that's how it is with one ?

from these few reviews no one seems to bring it up with theres ?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2F84VE8899

even the 1 and 3 star reviews ?? nothing on your like issues ??

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Hybrid-Waterblock-Cooler-400-HY-5188-B1/product-reviews/B01IPVQUSG/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_hist_3?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=three_star&reviewerType=avp_only_reviews&pageNumber=1

where did you buy your kit's from ?? or theres something in how you assembled it causing this . just don't know ?

From Newegg...assembled this one perfectly, It must just be the product, though I cant even hear it anymore because my fan is turned up. Played Witcher 3 and it gets to 51-52 which I dont mind; I think the temps are due to it being so damn biploar in this room. I will update again in a few days.

 

[nged72]

My biggest complaint is still there...the damn Blower fan keeps randomly REvving up.

I set it to Auto Curve and Manual and it still does it x.x

(http://i.imgur.com/FkoP1BN.png)

 

[junkeymonkey]

see like from that one link from evga with the guy and his SC card he brought that up on that but he don't have a reference style as yours so I would of thought it would be a non issue .

you see from my screen shot that cards vrm fan pretty much stays the same through out idle to max

see I'm thinking as he said about evga needs a hybrid use bios for kits used on non factory hybrid kit use cards .. the bios on your card is set to run the fans at a temp [low temps = low speed increased temps = increased speeds ]

sad part is how evga don't want to spell these things out or discuses them

like here they answer something like the grommets but when it something else technical there long gone ?

http://forums.evga.com/HELP-Hybrid-1080-FTW-upgrade-kit-installed-VRM-fan-not-spinning-m2613492.aspx#2615832

never even tried to help here

http://forums.evga.com/Evga-Gtx-1080-SC-Hybrid-Water-Cooler-m2609925.aspx

that's kinda a trend I see at evga forums there tech guys don't answer something that may cause or show liability on there part
you would think a evga tech would pop in and spell something out or give a why or why not , but they tend to not ..

there ws a post on the 900 series of where a guy showed how to edit the cards bios on the fan properties , weather that's worth the risk for a edit and re flash ??? I guess depends on how bad you feel the issue is overall ..

this old thread kinda shows evga tech guys really don't have a clue on how the hybrids really work

as one poster put it '' Hmm, which seems to be contradictory to advice given out on this very forum no more than 6 days ago?''

http://forums.evga.com/New-980-ti-hybrid-radiator-fan-constantly-on-full-speed-m2453739.aspx

and funny it seemed like right after that is when evga tech guys just pretty much stopped replying to technical threads on these cards .. they were caught bull$hitting


I see a guy from amazon report that vrm fan thing [ gave a 4 star rating ]

''Cons - The blower fan (the one on the card, not the one on the radiator) tends to rev up to unnecessarily high rpms and gets very loud when it does. You can use your software of choice from EVGA or MSI Afterburner to tone it down. It's just there to cool the memory and other chips and doesn't need to run at the 3k rpms it seems to default to otherwise. The instructions also weren't as bad as described, but did leave out a step or two that should have been included and you'll figure out as you go through it. So deducting a star for those 2 minor things.

Overall I think it was worth it, and definitely would be a great upgrade for a FE cooler. Even over the excellent ACX cooler it dropped my temps quite a bit.

see I guess you have to run software in the background with a profile loaded and used ?? see that's set in the bios for AIR cooler use ?????

I'm not recommending this but heres a look at editing the fan speeds in a bios [how that has changed from that series to your 10 series ??? ]

http://forums.evga.com/Modify-fan-settings-in-BIOS-m2380091.aspx

then it could just come down to how that new GPU boost 3.0 works on these pascal cards ?? maybe no getting around that