On page 4, there is an "IDE Power" connector. It looks a lot like a 4 pin CPU fan connector, but it (obviously) provides different voltages that are appropriate for 3.5" IDE drives (5V, 12V) and the ...

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 ...

Am putting together a PC and have run into a problem with the MB/case. The case fan has a 3-hole connector and all system fan connectors on the MB are 4-pin. Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Black ...

Fan control on the Asrock Z590 Taichi can be accessed in the BIOS or Asrock A-Tuning in Windows, allowing users to customize the fan curve profiles for each of the board’s eight 4-pin headers. The ...

Many of the chips inside a typical PC generate a lot of heat and require some form of active cooling to remain stable. Powerful recent hardware like Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000-series graphics cards and ...

CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT are entirely different and serve distinct purposes in the context of a computer cooling system. CPU_FAN or CPU Fan Header is the primary 4-pin fan header on a motherboard, and it ...