The fans in a max studio never actually turn off… they’re just really really quiet, and I’ve never managed to actually make the fans come off idle, even maxing out all cores.

It takes sustained usage for the heatsink to saturate, and then the fans ramp up quickly. They do stay next to silent otherwise.

> cool the CPU you really need to be running AIO or dedicated water coolers

There is no shortage of silent air coolers, such as the NH-D15, that are 20-30 dBA and undetectable unless the only noise in the room. It's usually stock case fans that are the culprit.

If you're running a PC with a dedicated GPU then you will have minimum 6 extra fans.

3 for the GPU and 3 for the case. The latter are pretty noisy and constantly run.

Sure, loud fans are loud but anyone that cares about noise is not using OEM fans, and picking up something from Noctua/Arctic. It's also common to upgrade to 140mm fans which further reduces noise.

You seems to live in the 90s or early 00s, sorry. Consumer fan technology has come a long way since those days. Case sound dampening has also come a long way, so the little noise that fans do make, it gets pretty well dampened inside the case.

> With a PC you still have case fans running because even with modern motherboards they don't support switching them off at low temperature

What do you mean? Most motherboards support sending 0W to fans at given temps. You just install the motherboard software.

The motherboard software that is Windows only.

Or bios, or whatever has, although non-Windows support is generally bad in hardware because it requires open sourcing drivers.

I am not familiar with any motherboard that does not expose all its capabilities through BIOS or UEFI. Yes, it might be less convenient to have to reboot to set a fan curve, but it’s certainly possible. And the Windows software is so terrible anyway, going through BIOS is always my first choice.

> even with modern motherboards they don't support switching them off at low temperature

I have a ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS WIFI II motherboard in my desktop set to do exactly that, under I think 48 °C it stops the case fans. No Windows software required, it’s all in the MB’s BIOS.

The Mac Studio in particular is a terrible example to use here. At least the first iteration of it. It has a fan that is constantly spinning, and it’s a cheap fan, so it creates a very annoying whine sound at low RPMs:

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/09/mysterious-noise-sparks...

Hopefully, Apple has solved this issue with the second iteration.