Ok you want your PC to be cooler. That is a good way not to have the fan running all the time. K10Stat is for AMD CPUs and RMClock will work with most Intels. However, there is a bit of tweaking to do. If you have a notebook, this may be difficult as the BIOS may limit any changes to the bus, so voltages and clock rates may be limited.
I never thought it would a problem with newer PCs, but the CPU load, even for older games is quite high, but that may depend on the system's GPU.
Nevertheless, noise seems to be a relative thing. My friends relatively new MacBook, which he uses for video editing, makes the fan go off after a short while and wow, the high pitch whine is ever annoying.
This old 2002 beast stays quiet most of the time. Even when watching moderate sized videos ( HD takes a lot out the CPU ).
But in any case, if you do have the basic tools, I suggest that you :
1. Clean out whatever vents that you can.
2. Apply new thermal paste. You will have to take off the CPU Fan and Heatsink
3. Try undervolting and underclocking your CPU.
4. Go somewhere that is noisy. I never hear my hard disk turning when I am at the library, but first thing in the morning ouch!!
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