Re: smart fans

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:

> The significant difference in practice is that 4-pin fans
> allow for RPM to change based on the need for cooling
> temperature, this reduces noise and power consumption.
> While 3-pin can control the voltage, but the voltage can't
> turn to change the fan RPM at all and accurate as much as 4
> pin fans.

OK, but since there are temperature readings from the GPU and
the CPU _and_ 3-pin fans doesn't that mean it should be able
to control (the voltage) them based on the temperature?

4-pin fans wouldn't be possible because of the motherboard
sockets, I think, which are also 3-pin.

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