Noisy Fans

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Having bought an Elite Ultima Quad the only disappointing feature was the very, very noisy fans - a constant whooshing sound - loud enought to think is it going to fail it must be working so hard! Now that garuantee has run out the problem has been solved by fitting an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro fan costing under £15.00 to replace the Intel supplied one. Yes we had to get rid of the fitted Mesh fan cowling and push up a fraction the baffles of tghe Pro 7 in one corner and file off a smidgin of plastic corner foot to get it to fit but what a change - so quiet that I can now hear the hard drive operating. It is now operating how it should have been in the first place!

However, I then found out that Mesh in building PC had NOT connected the control wires of the PSU and two chassis fans to the connections that were there to be used on motherboard to control these fans - they were folded back amongst other wires. Connecting these, and then loading Smart Doctor which was on the supplied Video Card CD, along with other useful applications (which had not been loaded by Mesh) you are able to lower the normal CPU fan, and some of the others to run at an initial 80% instead of the noisy 100% they were all running at giving much quieter but efficient levels. Indeed, the CPU and PSU fans could now be controlled to increase or decrease fan speeds according to CPU and PSU operating levels.

Checking in BIOS, the CPU and motherboard temperatures are now running at least 2C lower than before. The difference in noise is so great I wonder how this pased quality control when built or are all Elite Ultima Quads this noisy?