I am new to PC quieting and just discovered the Windows Advanced Power Management options. No many posts on this subject, so I did some investigating and experimenting with the objective of better CPU fan speed control. Located at: Control Panel/Power Options/Change Power-Savings Settings/Change Pla...

Built this year from mostly excess parts: P4 531 (3.0GHz), MSI G31TM, GT520, ATX 300W PSU, Intel CPU headsink/fan + 1 80mm CoolerMaster SuperFan, DVD drive. Went together pretty easy except for clearance between PSU and DVD (noted in manual and elsewhere). Disc player cases have lots of depth variat...