Fans getting noisy.

[DND]

Hey guys just noticed for some time now when i am playing games like nba 2k16 high settings my case fans are getting a little bit loud and i can really hear them but when i'm just surfing the net and not doing anything heavy it stays quiet. BTW my fans are just the default fans from my NZXT H440.

[WoodenMarker]

Have you tried lowering fan speeds?

[DND]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

Have you tried lowering fan speeds?

I think i haven't. I really don't know how to change the fan speeds.

[Benergy]

1 minute ago, DND said:

I think i haven't. I really don't know how to change the fan speeds.

If they are PWM fans you may be able to control them with software, e.g. speedfan.

 

If they are standard fans, you may want to invest in a fan controller, you just plug the fans into it, and it will have knobs/sliders to adjust fan speeds.

[WoodenMarker]

2 minutes ago, DND said:

I think i haven't. I really don't know how to change the fan speeds.

What are you fans being powered off of?

[DND]

1 minute ago, Benergy said:

If they are PWM fans you may be able to control them with software, e.g. speedfan.

 

If they are standard fans, you may want to invest in a fan controller, you just plug the fans into it, and it will have knobs/sliders to adjust fan speeds.

I'm not really sure what kind of fans they are. It's just the default case fans from my h440.

[DND]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

What are you fans being powered off of?

Me and my friend just plugged it into the fan hub.

[Benergy]

3 minutes ago, DND said:

I'm not really sure what kind of fans they are. It's just the default case fans from my h440.

The CPU fan is almost always controllable.

Are the case fans plugs directly into the motherboard or somewhere else?

[DND]

Just now, Benergy said:

The CPU fan is almost always controllable.

Are the case fans plugs directly into the motherboard or somewhere else?

Oh i see. The case fans are just plugged into the fan hub of my case.

[Benergy]

3 minutes ago, DND said:

Oh i see. The case fans are just plugged into the fan hub of my case.

Had to Google to see what you were talking about, these aren't standard 

 

One of the cables coming out of said hub must be plugged into the motherboard, or a power cable, to power all the fans connected to it.

 

To control the fans, you'd take the cables out of that hub, and plug them into a fan controller.

(e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Channel-Pin-Connector-Blue-Controller/dp/B006Z8LB6S/)

 

[DND]

1 minute ago, Benergy said:

Had to Google to see what you were talking about, these aren't standard 

 

One of the cables coming out of said hub must be plugged into the motherboard, or a power cable, to power all the fans connected to it.

 

To control the fans, you'd take the cables out of that hub, and plug them into a fan controller.

(e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Channel-Pin-Connector-Blue-Controller/dp/B006Z8LB6S/)

 

Oh i see so i still need to get a fan controller to properly managed the speed of my fans right?

[Benergy]

Just now, DND said:

Oh i see so i still need to get a fan controller to properly managed the speed of my fans right?

Assuming you can't control them from software already (have you tried this yet?), then yes you'd need to get a fan controller.

[DND]

Just now, Benergy said:

Assuming you can't control them from software already (have you tried this yet?), then yes you'd need to get a fan controller.

I haven't tried yet even in the bios i haven't checked yet if i can change the speeds trough bios. What software would you recommend?

[Mikius10001]

Fan Xpert is what I use, but it came bundled with my MoBo software, not even sure if you can get it stand alone.

 

You can get AI Suite and it's part of that since you have an ASUS board.

[Benergy]

1 minute ago, DND said:

I haven't tried yet even in the bios i haven't checked yet if i can change the speeds trough bios. What software would you recommend?

I mentioned SpeedFan earlier on as it's free and lightweight, though there's a plethora of programs that can do it.

[DND]

1 minute ago, Mikius10001 said:

Fan Xpert is what I use, but it came bundled with my MoBo software, not even sure if you can get it stand alone.

Okay thanks i'll try downloading that.

1 minute ago, Benergy said:

I mentioned SpeedFan earlier on as it's free and lightweight, though there's a plethora of programs that can do it.

Okay i'll try downloading that.

[WoodenMarker]

2 hours ago, DND said:

Me and my friend just plugged it into the fan hub.

The fan hub just powers the fans and don't provide control over them. Try connecting the fans to motherboard headers instead and looking through the bios for fan settings. 

[DND]

6 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

The fan hub just powers the fans and don't provide control over them. Try connecting the fans to motherboard headers instead and looking through the bios for fan settings. 

oh i see thanks.

[Thomieboy]

That hub thing were the fans are connected to is just powered by 12V so your case fans are running full speed all the time. You say that the PC is noisy when gaming and not when Idleing, which means the noise comes from your GPU or CPU fans. I see you use the stock intel cooler, my guess is that's the culprit! 

[DND]

15 hours ago, Thomieboy said:

That hub thing were the fans are connected to is just powered by 12V so your case fans are running full speed all the time. You say that the PC is noisy when gaming and not when Idleing, which means the noise comes from your GPU or CPU fans. I see you use the stock intel cooler, my guess is that's the culprit! 

Oh i see. Maybe i'll try configuring the fans of my gpu and cpu and try to check if they are really the ones making it noisy.

[Thomieboy]

On 11-2-2016 at 5:28 PM, DND said:

Oh i see. Maybe i'll try configuring the fans of my gpu and cpu and try to check if they are really the ones making it noisy.

You can leave the panel of and turn of the case fans completely by unplugging all of them. Game for a few minutes and this way you'll know

[DND]

8 hours ago, Thomieboy said:

You can leave the panel of and turn of the case fans completely by unplugging all of them. Game for a few minutes and this way you'll know

oh i see i'll try doing that too. Just noticed tho it doesn't become that noisy if the gpu temps don't go above 70 degrees celsius.