Silencing Fans?
 

i have my own pc, but i have a lil problem w/ the fans (case fans).


they're hooked directly to the power supply as the wires didnt reach the mobo (i got 3 case fans and only 1 mobo spot for them).

the proc fans however goes to mobo.

anyway, here's the problem.

when i put the pc on standby, the fans still run. and the lights on the fan still go. it kinda gets annoying when i'm trying to sleep.

what can i do?

i've heard of fan controllers, anyone have any experience w/ them?? how about their price?

& i gotta make sure that the fan wires reach this too.

I'm guessing you have LED fans in your case... Those lights don't go out until the LED's go bad. Nothing you can do that I know of about that.

All of my fans run on my fan controller. I can't turn the fans off, but you can turn them down really low when you sleep to lower the noise a bit. I have this one. It has LED's that surround the knobs that never turn off so I doubt you'd want something like that.

You don't want your fans to turn off dude

This might work for you if noise is the main problem, but it won't turn off the LEDs, unfortunately.

A 12V/7V/off baybus is another option, albeit more expensive; I built my own sometime ago using this guide as a reference.

Abso-damn-lutely correct! The hum of the system fans is a soothing lullaby, singing "cool is good" all night long.

Ig the system is going to "standby" and the noise is annoying, why not shut the system down completely and reboot when you wake up? Just suggesting an option.

i would just get extension wires so they can plug into the mobo.

can you get some kinda adapter that will let u put 3 fans into the mobo? (mobo has 1 slot)

I would seriously doubt it. Doesn't sound like a good thing even if there was an adapter. Why do you want them all plugged into the MOBO? None of my fans are plugged into my MOBO. Anyway, that's not gonna solve your problem of making your system quiter. You need a fan controller.

turn off your computer, use the house air conditioning instead

A fan controller sounds really useful.

Buy sound insulating material for your case....i have seen it on a few sites..... or you could get stealth fans....they are quiet as hell....

The surest way I know of to silence fans
is to strike out swinging for the third out,
leaving the bases loaded. Especially late
in a close game.

[ducks, covers head]

LOL @ twototango

anyway, i think i'll get the fan speed controller

Get a quality rheobus like a Sunbeam, generic ones can be shite.

all good advice, i just wish i had some

Its awefully easy to build a nice looking fanbus if you are at all comfortable with a bit of soldering (sp?). if you, or anyone else for that matter, is interested PM me and I will dig up some links with diagrams and walkthroughs. Mine cost me a whopping hours of time making it look good and about 6 dollars in parts.

I have all my case fans on different switches which is a godsend for the reasons you mention above.

Don't plug them all into the mobo, Dude. The mobo can only put out so much current before you fuck something up pretty bad. A lot of high-powered fans even come with warnings not to plug them into the mobo. Go with the fan controlled sixate suggested, or something similar.