[Pelam]

I have set up several macs to spin up the fans more aggressively. Subjectively this seems to help a lot.

And the noise is not much worse, because eventually they spin at full blast anyway; just a bit too late when presumably thermal throttling is already hitting.

[officeplant]

yep, started using smcfancontrol in 2008 due to Jobs insistence on silent horrible stock fan curves. Only stopped due to M1 Mini's not needing my input on fan speed.