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 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