
Originally Posted by
circuitmonkey
I was inspired and annoyed at the sounds coming from my new case (NZXT M59).
I had filled all the fan mounts with blue led 120mm fans and had already ran the two top fans off of a molex with a 5v mod, but it was the two standard NZXT fans that came with the case that where annoying me so I decided to do something about it
Both my NZXT fans where plugged into my mobo headers and speedfan was reporting around 1300RPM.
I had a rummage around in my parts draw and found some 100 ohm resisters.
I put them in series on the +ve line of the fans (middle, red wire) and now the fans have been reduced to around 800RPM
Now there is still some fan noise, but its to an unobtrusive level.
Hope this can be of some help to our OP