Let me summarize that again: * A voltage regulator is a cheap solution that looks ugly on a wire. * The earlier ohmages I chose should already do the trick provided the fan still starts. * A start amperage of high value might burn the first resistor if it takes too long * Raising the resistor values...

Ah. I regret not just going ahead with my voltage divider plan: I think it would have worked :). Today I seem to be going for a voltage regulator but the annoying thing is that you have to get a fixed value (or get a variable one with a potentiometer to go with it, which then has to be a form of tur...

Someone wrote in 2014:

A resistor divider circuit is for creating a voltage that's a fraction of an input
voltage, and expects to be driving a very high impedance load (otherwise the
divide ratio is influenced by the load).

which is basically what I described in my post.

Lol I think I have already said it. It's a graphics card fan that won't honour the Maxwell architecture BIOS values (that I modded, and which it recognises, to some extent) so it is stuck at a base minimum of 1500 RPM and has a fan that can do reportedly do 3600 RPM max. It uses JST PH connectors th...

I'm gonna have to stop thinking because I'm not doing very well at it. The maximum resistance minimum voltage drop is 1/4 (for these figures) at 3V up to a fan voltage of 9V. The speed reduction is then less pronounced at lower speeds, but more pronounced at higher speeds. 3V of 12V is still 1/4 low...

I just keep messing this up but I can't delete the post.

I am very inexperienced with regards to electronics and solderings. It seems most if not all voltage reduction cables just have a single resistor on the wire for the yellow (+V) or red (+V), depending on which you have; the +V cable has a resistor to it. If you're talking about 2 resistors Ohm's law...

I worry about this. I have had a Corsair VS350, a Corsair RM550, and a Corsair RM650i and I have never heard these sounds. The CS550M is said to be not very well engineered. If you compare pictures of the internals of the CS550M and the EDGE 550 for example, the difference is outstanding. In how wel...

I would agree with that. It seems pretty dogmatic to say that you "need" Windows 10 for anything other than what it really introduces, which is like the Windows Store and nothing else (for me at least).

In general I think a regular non-PWM fan will run fine on a PWM header. PWM probably just runs on 12V by modulating something else, so you won't have issues running your regular fans but you will have to check whether the motherboard also supports voltage control over the yellow wire. Some motherboa...

I must rectify a little bit. It seems that when I did the motherboard BIOS readout (from the BIOS screen) of the fans I had not put them behind a fanmate2, but I'm not sure. In any case, that reading of 800+ RPM at the lowest voltages is not correct. At 5V the fans spin at 580 RPM. With another cabl...

I purchased 3x Cooltek "Silent Fan 120" (non-PWM) to test them. They are cheap enough to test in 'bulk'. At 1200 RPM (or 12V) (likely, my BIOS claims the IO chip so my software can't read it, have to see if I can turn that off) the thing is definitely audible at over 3 meters even in a noisy dayligh...

I think that would depend on whether these brands change hands (or management). Nexus was acquired by a US company and hence do not ship to Europe anymore. Bit strange, they were a Dutch company so I guess they just bought their intellectual property and brand, and manufactoring contracts. They disc...

So in the past there was the Dutch brand Nexus that was cheap and I just bought every fan from them and never had issues. They were normal, decent, and no frills to them. They looked good too, but very decent and normal and regular. Most of the brands you see in the stores try to be special or "cool...

- previously when electricity went down land lines continued to function - currently they do not, and require a mobile phone to guarantee reachability. Well, no. You know that. Unless the land line is a portable and requires a base it will still work if the electricity is down and the phone system ...

The point was that SDDs will (I believe) fail erratically and suddenly. In most cases a HDD will give you warning signs of impending doom. With due respect to your beliefs, HDDs often fail without warning ( or give warning but keep working ) while SSDs may also give you warning. The bolded text (th...

The point was not that they don't fail. The point was that SDDs will (I believe) fail erratically and suddenly. In most cases a HDD will give you warning signs of impending doom. My computing experience in the past used to be rock stable (ie. Windows XP) and I was using the same system for years. I ...

Nope I never used them. I am nostalgic for CDs though, a little bit. But there is no point in accusing anyone of nostalgia here. They are about as costly as a hard disk (for example this one at 37€ for 2.5TB (actually, that's not true, a 2TB harddisk is about € 77 , or twice as much) and is still th...

What do you think of this thing? http://silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=245&area=en It is dirt cheap today, just €13 with included delivery costs. You don't need the caddy, you could take off the print plate and just connect a bunch of things. Apparently it is just a dynamic cache that is going t...

My sister uses only incandescents. She's afraid of the mercury in the CFLs and I don't blame her. The cost she pays is in the electricity bill. Not sure how hot your country is. Here it is only warm during the summer months and for the rest of the time it helps in heating the house ;-). Give me gra...

I have just never seen this "I own an SSD and therefore I rule" anywhere Of course you wouldn't notice it if you had fallen victim to it yourself. The birds do not find anything out of the ordinary when they are surrounded by birds, nor when they screech really loud. Do you really write so much to ...

You just write how the LEDs that you love whine, and then you go on to say that you need more evidence of whining. I mean, how much more can you be in denial? You want me to tell you the stuff you are already seeing but you deny? And what if those others are also seeing but they deny? Because the te...

Again, why my beloved SSD? :) Because I don't critique out of random reasons when it doesn't bother me. What point would there be in critiquing something from which you do not suffer, which does not impede you, which does not concern you? That's like saying someone who is offended by the noise of h...

By the way, here is another statement from the I Ching: Fire over wood: The image of THE CALDRON. Thus the superior man consolidates his fate By making his position correct. This is what I believe in. Having a correct position means having a foundation that can support your way of life, both in reso...

They get taken aback I think. For many the SSD is the OS drive from heaven and here you come and say it should not be used as that at all. Many people get defensive when confronted with the radical. Then if their minds are closed they are not willing to listen to any arguments. I have never told an...

Oh and the fun part about tmpfs is that you can name them any way you like:
. (But it is not really a form of cache).

I don't have to push SSDs down peoples throats. People seem sold on how fast Windows loads. Me and a friend of mine sometimes sell or upgrade computers and replacing the HDD with an SSD is the standard upgrade for cheap laptops and the like. Sure, 128GB might be tight for some, but for the usual we...

I was meaning to ask you about your Scorpio Black :P. Since I just ordered one yesterday (today) and it will be delivered tomorrow :P. Maybe I am going to be interested in a second. But if you are in Finland, sending it off might be a bit too costly, I don't know. How does it keep up for you? Is it ...

This guy: video , mentions how harddisks will generally give off warning signs before failing or fail gradually, where as SSDs can fail quite suddenly and data recovery from them in most cases is nearly impossible. Literal words. So in terms of being unreliable when you say "Any storage media can di...

So you are saying that basically some SSDs do produce enough sound to be audible, but most (if they do produce this level of sound) end up in the inaudible range? But my question is: is this volume loud enough to be audible had it been in a lower frequency range? Is this typical of SSDs to have tha...