Obsidian 800D / Hailstorm fans?

I just recieved my new Hailstorm system (Corsair 800D) with stage 6 liquid cooling hoping that this would minimize noise as much as possible.  I was a bit taken back when i powered up for the first time today and the topside fans kicked in (well 2 of 3 did anyway).  Does anyone how specifically to disable them?  Is there any concern to doing this?  There is still a rather large backside fan that doesn't seem to make as much noise and while i've overclocked the cpu, the stage 6 cooling (cpu and gpu) should be enough correct? 

Thanks in advance!

Also can't seem to open the front side usb panel.  Any gotchas there?  i would hate to have to pry it open!

Liquid Cooling is not silent, and is merely another heat exchanger mechanism that offers better modularity and thus bigger potential dispersion space than air coolers. You did do your research and were aware of that before you got LC, right? Liquid Cooling is based on radiators with fins that the fluid runs through, and fans pulling in air through the radiators exchange heat with the cooler air. If you disable the fans, the fluid loop will become a giant heat bath for whatever's hooked up to it.

If you don't like the noise, you can either undervolt the current fans, or get quieter fans to put on. You shouldn't remove or turn off the fans completely from any radiator, it would make a $50 or possibly more radiator a useless piece of metal. If you do so either way, because noise is associated directly with RPM and RPM associated directly with cooling performance, you must also fine tune your overclock yourself as well, because the cooling performance will not equal the original performance that DS tested your overclock with.


Edited by ablahblah - 08 Apr 2011 at 6:54pm