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Fans are WAY too loud

Pruxis
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I've built a bitfenix prodigy with 2 fans in it, the Spectre Pro 230mm in the front and a 140mm fan that came with the case in the back.

the 230mm fan is running far too loud I even switched it up from the molex connector to the motherboard and changed a few things into the bios to make them run 'normal' or 'silent' but I can still hear it way too good.

 

What can I do to stop this? :/

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Turn the RPM way down? Your performance may suffer though

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What kind of sound, high pitch? or just sound of moving air?

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i take the cables out off the connectors and shove them into the 5v on the molex connectors and most fans are silent at 5v

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Undervolt them to 7 volts , they don't start at 5 volts ( you have to manualy spin them if you want to start them at 5 volts you don't want to do that.)

Best guide i could find : ( cause linus is in thewe :D:D:D)

 

Goodluck

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I have an ITX board and I only have two fan connectors 1 for the stock cooling and 1 for the fan in the back, the 230mm in the front is connected with a molex connector.

I still find that the front fan is the loudest I just tested it, I might get Noctua's instead with a bitfenix recon as fancontroller.

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Get some noctua fans and you will be fine :)  

 

Yeah I'm getting a noctua CPU cooler and a noctua fan for in the back I hope it'll fix my issues :p

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Most motherboards usually allow you to adjust your coolers rpm profile.

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get a noctua fan and use their noise adapters to undervolt that front fan if you still want the 230mm since i dont think noctua has fans that big. that is unless you feel like making the ghetto undervolt-er shown by the linus video above. :P

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Get some noctua fans and you will be fine :)

Wiser words have never been spoken. ;)

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