Fan Control is a great tool for doing exactly what its name suggests, giving you complete control over your system's fans, including your CPU and GPU fans, plus any water cooling pumps that you may ...

A CPU fan is more than just a fan. It is attached to CPU with power pins/wires and a sensor that tells it how fast to run. If the CPU is heating, the sensor will make the fan run faster. As such, the ...

Typically, CPU fan noises are heard when you reboot your PC (the whirring sound you may have heard upon startup) and it goes on to decline as the startup process completes. The purpose of fans on your ...

Regardless of whether a fan is mounted to your central processing unit, your case or sitting on your floor, its purpose is the same. Fans change how air flows, more effectively moving it from one ...

This post is a quick sequel of my previous article jam-packed with my personal experiences and observations while I was fiddling with standard 4-wire PC cooling fans. Today I will be talking about the ...

I'm building a PC for the first time 10+ years, and I have a noob problem. I can't find the right case fan connection on my motherboard. I'm using the Gigabyte Z690i ITX motherboard. According to the ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...