• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Fan types. Explain please.

Status
Not open for further replies.
harsaphes

harsaphes

Supreme [H]ardness
2FA
Joined
Aug 29, 2005
Messages
5,333
I'm getting ready to put the parts together for my Ncase and have general fan questions.
Unless I'm reading wrong there fans that are PWM and fans that are not. Can you please explain the difference to me and how they would be used in this case.
Thanks. Very appreciated.
 
PWM fans plug into the 4-pin fan headers on your motherboard. Normal (or non-PWM if you want to think of them that way) either plug into 3-pin fan headers, or have a big 4-pin peripheral plug (AKA Molex™) that plugs into your power supply. The fans themselves can be pretty much the same, just the connectors are different. The benefit of PWM is better granularity in control of fan speed, if your motherboard supports that.
 
Proglin said:
Try to be polite as soon as you can. No ones in [H] forum needs site like "http://lmgtfy.com/"
Click to expand...

TBH sometimes questions are asked which have been answered a zillion times or are super easy to search for. I'm on the fence with this particular question.
 
The question was really in regards to the why of having certain fans push air in and certain fans push air out and if certain fans were better for that than others.
Thanks.
 
Draw air in where you can or where you want to cool things.
Push air out where you can or where hot air can escape before circulating inside the case.
Wherever air enters or exits there is a build up of dust, so the entry/exit points can be used as dust traps.

Some fans can have their speed controlled, some make less/more noise, some are more efficient.
There are lots of sizes, generally the larger they are the more air they can shift while making less noise.
 
Sorry, but I didn't mean to be inpolite. I just think, that easy questions like this could be answered very easily, if people would just learn to use google. And there's no sugar coating it, but opening a new thread is very unnecessary, put it how you want.
 
OK. No sugar. You've been here twenty five days. If you have nothing to say please say nothing. Don't take the time to stop and comment in my thread if you have nothing to add. Telling someone to use Google takes as much time as providing the answer. And please don't come by a second time to say nothing. Lets close this. And once again thanks everyone who answered me.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top