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On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:04:05 +0200, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote:

>Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This isn't the first time I've gone looking for this Squeak; it's a
>> cunning noise that makes itself scarce as soon as I open the case.
>> This makes locating it quite tedious, especially as the case has more
>> fans than good sense would suggest(14, to be precise).
>
>I guess I have to ask. Why 14 fans? I have a high airflow case (HAF
>912+) which means it has a large 200 mm fan in the front and one 120 mm
>fan in the back. Even counting all the other fans in the case I think I
>have a total of 6...

Short story: I went a bit overboard when I built the computer. It's a
HUGE tower*, and had space for all these extra fans, and I thought -
hey, maybe I wanna overclock it**, and what the hell, fans are
cheap***...

It's not all case fans, though; the CPU heatsink is a massive two-fan
thing, the GPU has two fans, and even the PSU has two fans. Then two
tiny fans on the hdd cooler (because why not?), and the rest are case
fans.

Of course, once I actually started using the machine, I quickly
realized this was all overkill and now most of those fans are idle,
unpowered. 

Thanks to some good sound-proofing, though, the machine is very quiet.
The first time I turned it on, I had to double-check to make sure it
was actually running. 


* big towers rock if you like to tinker, even if you don't use all the
space. I hate tiny cases where my hands barely fit. 

** never overclocked it... but man if I did, the temperature probably
wouldn't move up a notch ;-)


*** yes, I know that too many fans can actually be counter-productive
if you don't take into account airflow and make sure you are pulling
in as much air as you are blasting out. This ain't my first rodeo, son
;-)