This post is a quick sequel of my previous article jam-packed with my personal experiences and observations while I was fiddling with standard 4-wire PC cooling fans. Today I will be talking about the ...

CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT are entirely different and serve distinct purposes in the context of a computer cooling system. CPU_FAN or CPU Fan Header is the primary 4-pin fan header on a motherboard, and it ...

On page 4, there is an "IDE Power" connector. It looks a lot like a 4 pin CPU fan connector, but it (obviously) provides different voltages that are appropriate for 3.5" IDE drives (5V, 12V) and the ...

Many of the chips inside a typical PC generate a lot of heat and require some form of active cooling to remain stable. Powerful recent hardware like Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000-series graphics cards and ...

I just bought an ASUS M4A785-M AMD 785G Socket AM3 motherboard to replace a bad board in a free HP I got. I transfered the CPU, heatsink and fan onto the new board and noticed that the fan connector ...

Fan control on the Asrock Z590 PG Velocita can be accessed both in the BIOS or through Phantom Gaming Tuning in Windows. Unfortunately, the fan test must be run for each of them separately, which is ...