Reduce fan speed/make them quieter?

[Mitobunny]

I recently just finished building my first computer and after everything has been hooked up and all of the drivers were installed...It finally hit me, the fans are driving me nuts. I currently have the corsair 500r case with only the 4 fans that come with it and was wondering if there was a way of making the fans calm down when the computer is in idle or doing light browsing. I put my fans on silent in the bios but it seems like it didn't do anything so I'm not entirely sure where my next step is.

[Deleted]

Must be fans on your motherboard or your CPU heatsink that is making noise because the fans in the 500R are very quiet, especially on the lowest setting. I assume you're using the fan controller on front?

[Mitobunny]

Yeah I'm using the fan controller but it hardly does anything. I'm starting to think that I'm just too used to be around a laptop but I'm still checking in to see if my fans can be adjusted =P

[Páíns]

Yeah I'm using the fan controller but it hardly does anything. I'm starting to think that I'm just too used to be around a laptop but I'm still checking in to see if my fans can be adjusted =P

i had the same problem until i found out it was the fan on my GPU that was the loud fan, i downloaded rivatuner and it has settings to let you lower all fans even the GPU you might want to try that

[Deleted]

you could possibly buy some of those fan speed adjusters that come with some fans/heatsinks, like these http://www.xsfans.com/index.php?main...roducts_id=894. aside from that there's not many other options. you could buy some new, quieter fans but that's a more expensive option.

personally, i am really considering getting some new fans for my corsair 600t. i run it on the lowest speed settings on the fan controller and the noise is a tad too loud at idle for my liking.

[Deleted]

Yeah I'm using the fan controller but it hardly does anything. I'm starting to think that I'm just too used to be around a laptop but I'm still checking in to see if my fans can be adjusted =P

Like I said, are you certain it's not your heatsink fan that's making "noise"? You could try turning off the fans to hear the difference.