Fans, Linux and RGB

[Buckfae]

I'm a computer science student from Germany and a few days ago i decided to finally upgrade my pc. I'm somewhat on a budget, so these are the parts i picked:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (Link)

Mainboard: Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II (Link)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16GB (2x8GB) (Link)

Case: Fractal Design Meshify C (Link)

 

Due to the current GPU-Situation i decided to not upgrade the GPU yet, so i'm still rocking my old GTX 1050Ti. This is not that big of a deal for me as most of my workloads are CPU-heavy anyways, but i'd like to upgrade to a 3080 in a few months (or years, who knows). I went with a 650W PSU, I'm assuming that this will be enough.

 

The building was a smooth sailing, and is now working just as expected and i'm very happy with the parts i picked.

 

I only need help to address one issue: Cooling

I decided to not get a CPU cooler, and just see how everything performs with just the two coolers in the case and the stock CPU-Cooler. The temps are just fine, however the pc is not as quiet as i'd like it to be. When running Idle the fans are still audible which is something that i'd like to avoid.
Over the past months i've also started doing more and more machine learning. Surprisingly my GPU is good-enough for my purposes, it really doesn't make that big of a difference for me if sth takes 4hours or 8hours to run as i'll sleep 8 hours anyway, so the 1050TI is good enough for now. However the Fans get REALLY loud during training, and as the pc is in the same room as my bed, i'd like the pc to be at least a bit more quiet during training.

 

I know that i won't get a 100% silent pc, but I think i can improve the situation by a lot if i spend some extra money on cooling.

 

As AIOS are pretty expensive (and don't offer that much benefit) i'd rather go with an air cooler. I'm just not sure what fans to pick. LTT usually reccomends Noctua fans, as they are very quiet. I'd replace my Case-Fans with Noctua fans and get a decent CPU cooler and slap 2 Noctua fans on it as well, this should allow me to make the pc a bit quieter (more fans spinning slower = same cooliing = me happy?). I'm also not sure on how i would address the fans as i've almost used up all my fan-header. I know that there are extensions for this, but i'd like to ensure that the fans only spin up if they are needed and not just run under full load all the time.

 

I could not find a way to run iCue or anything like that on Linux, so i'm setting up the fans in the bios. Is there any way to control fans on linux? I think that i won't go for RGB fans as i can't really control the RGB from linux anyway.

 

TLDR: I want my PC to be more quiet, but i don't know what fans and adapter to pick. I can't use conventional RGB - / Fan controlling software but would be happy to find something that works for me.

[Buckfae]

4 minutes ago, ThatOneDunce said:

You could grab an Arctic Accelero for your GPU. 

My GPU is quiet enough, CPU and case fans are the loud ones

[Buckfae]

2 minutes ago, ThatOneDunce said:

You can use fan hubs or PWM splitters

Which one would u suggest?