On 2021-08-22 4:39 a.m., Emanuel Berg wrote: > 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? > Like I already wrote, modifying voltage doesn't change speed of a motor (fan). > 4-pin fans wouldn't be possible because of the motherboard > sockets, I think, which are also 3-pin. >
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