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If the fan sounds normal and just sounds like it's pushing a high volume of air, then really, it is a good thing. I do however know what you mean about it being annoying. I build my own systems because I like to know the quality of the parts going into it. I take these systems to gaming tournaments (LAN Parties) to show them off and play games against everyone. One of my computers has seven fans that all run around 7000 rpms - and it is LOUD. When comparing computers to John Deere's, what I like to do is build my computer like I would build a "puller" and make it the biggest and best it can be - I overclock my processors, motherboards, RAM, and graphics processors to get the highest performance as possible to achieve the highest frame rates at these tournaments and it's important to keep my parts cool... so the fans are definately necessary. One of my other systems on the other hand has a complete water cooling system with a pump and radiator that cools my components with minimal noise, but that was quite an investment (time and money!). But back to your problem... determine which fan is making the noise. As others have pointed out, you'll usually have atleast two fans... one in your power supply and one on your CPU; however, with motherboards supporting such higher front side bus speeds, it is also common to have a fan on your northbridge chipset on the motherboard. After determining which fan is making the majority of your noise, it is usually easy to find quieter replacement fans, or build a rheostat like Clooney did so that you can control the RPMs of the fan. If you're not comfortable with making the modifications yourself, then contact the woman who built it for you and I'm sure that she'd be able to make it quieter for you.
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