Re: Question on system fan controller

Rob Hemmings wrote:
"Mario" <none@nowhere> wrote in message
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Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:19:14 +0100, Mario <none@nowhere> wrote:

Can anyone recommend an effective good quality system fan controller
that can be manually adjusted?

Also I'm a bit puzzled on the Zalman FanMate (version 2) controller.
The
online user guide doesn't make it where the controller is fitted. Does
it just hang outside the PC or what? TIA
Inside. You plug it into the power source (motherboard pins or psu
leads), then plug the fan into it. Then you twiddle it to the
noise/speed tradeoff that works for you, tie/velcro it somewhere
nondangerous and put the case on.

They don't work terrible well with clever fan controllers, but if you
had those you wouldn't need one of these.

Cheers - Jaimie

It's interesting what you say. At present the mobo controls the CPU fan
(can be disable in BIOS), but there's no controller at all for the
system fan. And that's the noisy blighter. I'm running an Athlon Sempron
at 26 degrees and the system at about 30 degrees. So there ought to be
considerable scope for reducing fan speed.

I think the version 2 of Zalman can be glued (would you believe) to
outside of case. I'm using a Nexus Breeze case BTW. Basically, just
wondering about compatibility....

I assume 26 degrees for CPU temp is a typo! Either that, or your
monitoring program is not reading the sensor correctly..
A Sempron (eg 3200) should run at well over 40C using a stock HSF,
assuming ambient room temp is about 22C.
HTH

No, no typo. The air is just really being blasted in through the system fan on Nexus Breeze. Plus the fact that i also have a Nexus cooler/heatsink and not the bog standard AMD cooler, on the CPU. I can get the CPU temperature up to about 30 degrees if I wished...

Anyway a bit off-topic. BTW Sempron's tend to die above 70 degrees. Yes, you're right that they will run well in the 40s. But with the system idling and not doing much 30-36 should be the aim assuming one is in a temperate room).
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