[ILUG] wierd hardware...

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

Well I have in the past used paper clips to connect fans into machines,
although I would suggest that perhaps these monolithic fans that plug
directly into the internal power supply wouldn't be entirely as effective
when the power has to be routed through a motherboard. If they did manage to
draw enough power through the MB do you really want to risk frying
everything else on it ? ? Get an external fan cut a hole in the system
chassis and sellotape the fan onto it, my mum swears by it !        .  .  . 

P.S. I presume you've been to overclockers.com and such as they get a lot of
advertising here . . . :-)

--Steve


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	John P . Looney [mailto:valen at tuatha.org]
		Sent:	Monday, October 11, 1999 3:47 PM
		To:	Irish LUG list
		Subject:	[ILUG] wierd hardware...

		 I was looking at some of the wierder BP6 monitoring tools
for Linux. Some
		are quite sweet - there is a dockapp that monitors the
temprature on each
		CPU, and on the case itself. Another complete application
does all the fans
		speeds & stuff. 

		 Alas, the CPU fans I have on my machine have the same
sockets as hard
		drives, and the fan things on the board are smaller,
floppy/jumper size
		things. Any ideas if I can slice off the plug, and get a new
one that fits
		the motherboard ? If so, what are they called ?

		Kate

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