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I see in my Fractal box of screws and doodads there appears a rotary switch, my guess to control fan speed.

Anyone using this with X1000?

Just curious if it actually wires up to manually slow or speed-up the main fan or not.

TJ

amigasociety wrote:I see in my Fractal box of screws and doodads there appears a rotary switch, my guess to control fan speed.

Anyone using this with X1000?

Just curious if it actually wires up to manually slow or speed-up the main fan or not.

I have it wired up to one of the fans in my system, and I can adjust the fan at will. Aside from initially setting the speed, I have no need to adjust it though, so I would have preferred a unit that didn't take up an expansion slot.

Hans

Hans wrote:

amigasociety wrote:I see in my Fractal box of screws and doodads there appears a rotary switch, my guess to control fan speed.

Anyone using this with X1000?

Just curious if it actually wires up to manually slow or speed-up the main fan or not.

I have it wired up to one of the fans in my system, and I can adjust the fan at will. Aside from initially setting the speed, I have no need to adjust it though, so I would have preferred a unit that didn't take up an expansion slot.

Hans

Which fan did you slow down? The one big rear white one on back of X1000 case?

Did it make it quieter?

tj

amigasociety wrote:

Hans wrote:

amigasociety wrote:I see in my Fractal box of screws and doodads there appears a rotary switch, my guess to control fan speed.

Anyone using this with X1000?

Just curious if it actually wires up to manually slow or speed-up the main fan or not.

I have it wired up to one of the fans in my system, and I can adjust the fan at will. Aside from initially setting the speed, I have no need to adjust it though, so I would have preferred a unit that didn't take up an expansion slot.

Hans

Which fan did you slow down? The one big rear white one on back of X1000 case?

Did it make it quieter?

tj

To be honest, the Case fans are very quiet already, its the cpu fan thats loud.
Just so you know that fan control wont work with cpu fan, as it has no voltage control, its a straight 12v fan.

amigasociety wrote: Which fan did you slow down? The one big rear white one on back of X1000 case?

Did it make it quieter?

I'd have to open the case to check which one, as I cannot remember. This is more a case of me installing something "because it's there" than for any specific goal.

Hans

I replaced the CPU fan with another of the same size, but much quieter. I think it even blows more air, because the heatsink is cooler now.

As a result, I can now run the X-1000 at night without having to close the door to that room.

Got a link to the exact model tonyw?

Someone had to ask the question and when I have both going it might get noisy in here

Slayer is in the process of moving his computer room around with this very goal in mind

I'm not sure where it came from (out of the 'fans' box), but like all the others in there, it's almost certainly a Jaycar fan that I've bought years ago and never used until now. It's probably a model YX-2505:

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productResults ... SUBMIT.y=0

Where are you, David? There are several Jaycar shops in Kiwiland.

I am in Dunedin and I do visit Jaycars on occassion, where I got my bits for my X1000 to Flex null modem cable... thanks Tony, I will look into this soon

Infact here it is the very store I visit
http://www.zenbu.co.nz/entry/1096185-jaycar-dunedin

ut oh, I changed your search string to http://www.jaycar.co.nz and it brought up the same fan but mine are out of stock! I wonder if they could order them in.. hmm, I will ask

amigasociety wrote:I see in my Fractal box of screws and doodads there appears a rotary switch, my guess to control fan speed.

Anyone using this with X1000?

Just curious if it actually wires up to manually slow or speed-up the main fan or not.

My Fractal Design case also came with a fan controller. It looks just like yours. I can use it to change the fan speed from full power to off or anything in between.

I don't use the fan controller much, because the fans from Fractal Design don't make much noise (I have three of them) even when running at full speed.

Kind regards,

Dennis