Controlling the fans on a Cooler Master Haf-X

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I've got a new machine and being new to PCs (only used Macs before) I'd like to learn how to quiten down the fans on my Cooler Master Haf-X. During normal operation (web browsing) they run fast (3 running – 1100rpm 750rpm 1000rpm). I downloaded speedfan but the fans did not respond to any changes I made. I read I might have to do something in the bios to enable fan control (I have a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 motherboard – if this matters).

Any advice appreciated.
 
not all motherboard fan headers allow fan control via software... your best bet is to buy a front mounted fan controller... they can be quite cheap, or up to silly money - depends on your preference :)

I've got an Akasa Fan Control Jr in my HAF 932 and that works nicely on my three 230mm fans :)
 
Check the manual, normally there are certain fan headers that have rpm control on them, and 3rd party control programs + newer mobo's more often than not is a big failure in terms of support. Gigabyte will have their own fan speed software(most likely, not used a gigabyte in a while), either part of their overclocking one(easytune iirc) or a separate one.

With my asus mobo the cpu and sys fan headers on the mobo can be controlled by the rubbish asus software in windows, the other ports have marginal bios control.

Generally bios > hardware monitoring, will have fan speed, rpm/pwm, voltage monitoring and temp protection settings in. So start there, sometimes you need to enable bios monitoring/control before windows software can be used.

It should be easy to control the noise, all the case fans on my HAF X, not silent, but with VERY quiet cpu/gpu fans, at full speed they aren't that loud to start with, are you sure its not a psu/cpu/gpu fan thats making the bulk of the noise? Anyway dropping the speeds does make them for all intents and purposes silent.
 
Fans: One 230 mm on the front (700 rpm, 19 dBA, glowing red with on/off switch for the LEDs), one 200-mm on the top (700 rpm, 19 dBA), one 200-mm on the left panel (700 rpm, 19 dBA) and one 140 mm on the rear (1,200 rpm, 17 dBA).

i take it you have changed the fans ? to be getting rpms stated
 
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