Fan has become noticeably loud after Fan Control 1.1

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Fan has become noticeably louder at 1800 rpm

I tried browsing around to see if there already was a thread for what my issue is, but there didn't seem to be one, hence the creation of this one.

Ever since I installed Fan Control and removed it, my Macbook's fan hasn't run quite the same. I followed the proper steps to uninstall it, and then installed smcFanControl to reset the fan speed back to the default of 1800.

My Macbook is only a few weeks old. Before I installed Fan Control, when running at 1800 rpm or below, I couldn't even hear any fan whatsoever. Now though, even when it's running at 1800, the noise of the fan is noticeable. Not extremely loud, just obviously present.

I was wondering if this is normal as Macbooks age (even though I've only had it for a very brief period of time), or if there is some way I can get it running completely silent again at the normal fan speed.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Hmm, how loud is it? You may just be listening too hard to it and being a bit paranoid about it of course, but unless it's grinding and sounding a little healthy, I wouldn't worry too much.

Perhaps run something like AppZapper or AppDelete just to make sure it's fully uninstalled.
 
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i am a new user and i have also installed the fan control staff... the problem is

Left Fan is around 1800 rpm
Right Fan is -1 rpm

When i upper the base speed for example 2500 rpm OR Lower the threshold... left one is ok but right fan is still -1 rpm... is it a problem???
 
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That might be a hardware issue, 1 RPM shouldn't be anything software tells the fan to do, that's the speed of a second hand on a clock. I'm not yet a Mac user but to me it sounds like a problem.
 
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The MacBook only has a left fan. :)
 

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