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My wife's Peerless Assassin cooler still has that annoying fan noise at higher speeds but turns out the answer might be to just take out one of the fans? I was watching an LTT video today and they’d put one in the machine, but I noticed they only installed one of the fans, in the gap in the 2 towers. Reddit seems to agree? https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1b5jmax/i_took_out_1_cpu_fan_from_peerless_assassin_120/?rdt=41514
LTT/Reddit were right: I took one of the fans out of my wife’s new Thermalright Peerless Assassin cooler & yep, that’s the solution to the whiny noise problem. It’s still running at between 55-60C under load with just the one fan. Why do they give you 2 when one works better for noise levels and makes maybe 1C difference? Crazy. It’s not like this is an expensive cooler & they could shave some cost off *and* avoid customer dissatisfaction with noise when they assume you’re supposed to use both
@sinbad should be fine. I have a similar cooler and it makes no real difference. The heat sink does 95% of the work. The fan is useful to get rid of heat build-ups when the CPU does some heavy lifting. For idle, fans can even be off with most modern CPUs if there's a decent heat sink on it.
And if the worst happens? Your motherboard will beep and then shut down to protect your CPU... but for that to happen you probably have to remove the entire heat sink or clog your case with full of cat hair 
@sinbad I have deepcool dual also but they are silent and cheaper also
@sinbad probably because having two fans in push+pull makes it look more like a more serious cooler despite largely being pointless :')
@dotstdy oh well, at least I have a free spare fan I guess