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motherboard fan too fast

i have an A8N-SLI deluxe asus motherboard.... and the system chipset fan... spins at about 9,000 rpm ... all the time.  this worries me obviously.  but i cant find a switch for it.  
  any suggestions?  i can remove the fan... just unplug it.  its a very very very small fan... and i have 6 fans in my system... 2 big ones for the airflow... so... do i REALLY need this motherboard fan????  I dont want 9000 rpm fan waking me up all the time at night.... :)
  if you know how to control this fan... i would be happy to hear that as well....
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tosh9iii.... just curious... are you japanese?  if so... i am in japan... and curious... any ideas where i could get these heatsinks?????
Yes I'm Japanese.  As for where you could get the heatsinks:

http://www.google.com/froogle?q=ZM-NB47J&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=p

By the way, it's easy to install.  I have an MSI motherboard and used a different model of the Zalman heatsink.  But after I installed it, ahhhhh, it was just peace and quiet.  Took me about 5-10 minutes total.
Wait, you said you were in Japan... Okay, so I need to find a place that ships internationally.  Give me a couple of minutes...
just so i am making this clear... cause chipset maybe could mean other things..> I mean the fan on the motherboard.... NOT THE CPU FAN... I have the stock heatsink and fan on the cpu chip.  i mean... on the motherboard itself... there is a tiny tiny tiny fan... that spins incredibly fast... ASUS calls this the chipset fan.... but i see other places call the chipset fan the cpu fan.... so you think this goes on the motherboard right?
Have you checked your BIOS?
Yes, I know "exactly" what you're talking about.   Like I said, I want thru the same thing.  I replaced my case fans, my CPU heatsink, and my Northbridge Chipset Fan (that's what you want to replace).  

I'm not having much luck finding a place that ships to Japan.  If there's a retail computer store near you, there's a good chance that they'll have a northbridge heatsink.

But I did find this one:

http://www.frozencpu.com/vid-17.html

$7.50 + $13.50 S/H (to Japan) = $21.00
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thanks a lot guys