repost: Case fan noise problem

[Vaktathi]

:Reposting from general: (forgot that it should go in this forum)

ok, so right now I've got 3 80mm Thermaltake Smart Case Fan II's running at a constant 4800 RPM in my machine. The upside of this is that I have never had an overheating problem ever, the downside is...it sounds like a B-17.

now, for some reason I can't get them to work on anything but the standard max setting (their adjustable settings just arent working). I leave my rig on pretty much 24/7, and tax it pretty hard (bit-torrent+Prey+Vent concurrently running, etc..) however I do not have anything overclocked. As it is nothing in my rig really gets hot at all, the case sides are always about room temperature and the whole machine works well.

My question is this, since I am moving into a dorm soon and don't want a B-17 in there with me, should I just pick up something like a Hardcano 9 so I can variably adjust the fan speeds to what I'm doing, or just replace the fans with normal 2000-2500 rpm 80mm fans and if so what problems, if any, would that present.

thanks for any help in advance, if you need any more info please let me know.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Those Smart Fans come with fan adjuster knobs. You have to take the jumper off the 2 pin connector in order for the adjusters to work. Other option is, use the thermal probe and put one on a hard drive, stick one on the northbridge chip, next to the cpu, etc.

I would never consider running dem fans at full blast though :Q