I'm lookin to build a new system and am looking for some decently quiet fans. The quietest things I can find are some lighted fans. I really don't want the damn lights. Is there a way to disable them, or am I stuck with that stupid shit?

also, will the lights affect a variable speed fan controller that I have?

1/13/2006 10:15:56 PM

just clip the LED wires

or unsolder them or bypass them or don't plug a wire in or etc. - depends on how it's made

[Edited on January 13, 2006 at 10:21 PM. Reason : speed controller should still work]

1/13/2006 10:19:37 PM

http://www.silenx.com/index.asp

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1/13/2006 10:36:02 PM

just break the light

1/14/2006 12:10:04 PM

just add more sweet led's and whatnot to your machine and slap racing stickers all over jur box0r!!@#!@$

1/14/2006 12:38:23 PM

panflo for life oh wait, i bought a dell

1/14/2006 1:35:19 PM

I have the Thermaltake LED speed speed adjustable fan.....I don't like the LEDs either, but it doesn't really bother me since it is in the case and I can't really see it.

I would say leave it alone unless you really are bothered by it.

By the way the 3 speed settings are great, especially if you like it quiet during normal use and you can crank it up during gameplay.

1/14/2006 1:44:05 PM

if you clip the led's, i'll take them

1/14/2006 2:40:19 PM

i've got the thermaltake adjustable fans, too, but in order to get them not to be loud as fuck, I have to massively decrease the fanspeed, which kills the whole point of the damn fan

1/14/2006 4:43:13 PM

any airflow is better than none at all - convective heat transfer, yo

1/14/2006 5:04:13 PM

What size fans do you have? I have a 90ish nm fan, and it doesn't have to spin very fast to generate good airflow.

If you look at the cfm charts I believe you will see that the larger fans generate more airflow at lower rpms.....which should equal less noise

1/14/2006 5:26:44 PM