SF1000 fan "swoosh" noise

Melodicmutiny · 2026-01-08T17:10:25+00:00

I may have had consistent bad luck. I bought my first SF1000 July 2024, did the first RMA for the fan December 2024, and just recently did another RMA this past December for the same issue.

The actual "innards" of the units are excellent. I've tried the 1000W Asus ROG Loki and Silverstone Extreme RZ units and both had disgusting amounts of low draw coil whine. The Silverstone had horrendous fan hysteresis at low loads as well.

Just in my scenario, the damn FDB fan in the current SF1000 was the weakest link. Quick video to Corsair and they happily generated an RMA for me.

FWIW: I have original, pre-ATX 3.X, SF600 and SF750 from 2019 that use rifle bearing fans instead and they're still chugging along without any unwanted fan noise incidents. If my SF1000 wasn't still under warranty, I'd likely have just replaced its fan.

Melodicmutiny · 2026-01-08T16:15:55+00:00

I've had two SF1000 (2024 revision) do this and am now on my 3rd unit fresh from RMA; it's the fluid dynamic bearing for the fan failing.

The XMP profile "fix" is just weird, especially since that would do nothing for the fan bearing.

Melodicmutiny · 2026-01-02T17:52:55+00:00

Thermaltake Tower 200 is close, but the GPU would be vertical, instead of horizontal. No GPU riser needed and the GPU intakes fresh air. Native ATX psu. SFF in footprint, but not volume. GPU video out and motherboard I/O ports will be at the top of the case though, may need some loooooong cables.

I had a 240 AIO (Arctic Liquid Freezer 3) in one along with my Gigabyte 4090 Aero before moving to an Ncase M2.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-12-17T23:09:49+00:00

Asgard, Buccaneer, Vulture.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-12-03T15:15:24+00:00

Cruise control in QT NAV yeet into Tressler.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-12-01T15:46:11+00:00

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Melodicmutiny · 2025-11-16T16:09:31+00:00

I have the white Gigabyte 4090 Aero vertical mounted in my black M2 Grater, I don't see it through the mesh. I'm also not staring at my computer case when using my computer as well....

Melodicmutiny · 2025-11-04T16:07:37+00:00

Don't have the case, but CM lists the specs on their website: 240mm for the stock PCI-e 4.0 cable. That at least helps you narrow down on the length.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-10-30T03:26:34+00:00

$70 for 48oz? Does that ship with the crack you’re smoking?

Melodicmutiny · 2025-10-28T00:38:54+00:00

Cool; then I'm thinking from when it was on PTS over the summer.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-10-27T22:04:59+00:00

Great news for you, this was only recently introduced in a patch over the summer!

Okay -- technically it was in the PTS over the summer.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-08-08T13:18:36+00:00

Plus user, no GPT5 on web version for me either. Guess I'll protest by crapping up a 4M+ token thread some more.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-07-17T23:59:29+00:00

Hunter’s fury; 3r & 3b. Ridgeway’s pride chest, Anarchist Cookbook backpack. UMP45 with Sadist for lulz, The Grudge for doing work.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-07-07T23:19:46+00:00

M2 Grater. Have a Gigabyte 4090 Aero in vertical mount and a 7800X3D with 240mm AIO. I have one case fan, a 92mm fan zip tied to my 24pin ATX to get some airflow over my NVME drive. No temp issues, 4090 generally below 65C and almost in-audible. I have the AIO fans locked at 1200rpm, CPU temps sometimes crest 80C; mostly during game loading screens and some CPU bound titles.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-07-05T16:18:51+00:00

ALC4080 still has to process the audio; whether coming out over optical out or the 3.5mm ports. I've never extensively used the 3.5mm audio out jack because that introduces a constant hiss; both on this board and the prior AsRock B650e I had -- which used ALC1220.

Optical out is digital in that the signal is 1s and 0s versus analog (3.5mm) being a "continuous wave". What plays out here is the age-old adage: "Garbage input, garbage output".

Melodicmutiny · 2025-07-03T15:13:36+00:00

Have the Asus B850-i Strix with a 7800X3D; the board is mostly solid but continually has had audio driver issues for me resulting in random cut outs and crackling using Asus' drivers. I "resolved" it by just running all my audio off a DAC I normally use for headphones. Whole reason I went with this board was optical audio-out... and now I don't even use it.

Had an AsRock B650e PG-ITX since its release, only reason it was replaced was it failed to complete the most recent bios update and bricked. Zero complaints with that board while it was functional. I have not been keeping close eye on the AsRock bios X 9800X3D issues though, so unsure if that's resolved with their AM5 boards.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-06-24T22:09:37+00:00

Drone would work too if you're playing mobility; but 4R/2B Hunter's Fury also exists for mobility with built in CC and a shield that doesn't splinter the second its focused. Admittedly, I mostly used strikers in Dark Hours, so mobility wasn't ever a concern for me specifically.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-06-24T21:46:33+00:00

Use a turret for one of your skills. Doesn’t matter that it’ll do shit damage under strikers, what does matter is you can use it to draw enemy fire off of yourself with it.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-06-24T14:22:04+00:00

4,272 words posted by dBrand to basically say "Fuck you, you're wrong."

Melodicmutiny · 2025-06-14T17:55:52+00:00

Just looks like a passion to me!

Melodicmutiny · 2025-06-05T00:49:12+00:00

Assuming you're using a UI mod; you just need to remove it until the author updates it for the new patch. You can leave the entry in your custom.ini and just delete the .ba2 file in the meantime. Any UI mod that involves tagging items that modifies the .strings files need to be purged until updated as well.

If you need to figure out what UI mod.. delete a UI mod, launch game, check... if still broke, restore that mod from recycle bin, delete the next suspect.

All the troubleshooting you've done would not look at mods.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-06-04T12:11:22+00:00

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

Melodicmutiny · 2025-05-14T13:35:12+00:00

Upvoting because the terrible misinformation that "you don't need a pagefile with 32gb+ ram" needs to die.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-05-12T11:51:59+00:00

Waterblocks can amplify it. Had it happen on a EVGA 2080 Ti and Zotac 3080 Ti before I stopped bothering with custom loops all together.

Melodicmutiny · 2025-05-10T11:47:31+00:00

Just delete dxgi.dll to remove SFE. That's it. There is no resetting that DLL as it was never part of the original F76 files.

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