A broken fan can cause your computer to overheat and damage internal components like the CPU, video card, hard drive and motherboard. Computer fans usually adjust their speed depending on the heat ...

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's operating temperature will rise if the cooling fan breaks, dramatically increasing the chance of hardware failure. Stock modern computer CPUs use a two-part CPU cooler that features a heatsink ...

So, I'm using a stock Intel cooler with my i7-2600K, and I'm noticing that the cooler isn't running at a consistent "humm". It keeps wavering (the RPM slightly speeds up for just a second and slows ...

Read this article to find out how to act when your computer starts whistling. When you hear your computer making a whistling noise - regardless if it an HP, Dell, or else - it probably means that it's ...

[Christian] was running a Linux box as a home server but needed a way to quiet the noisy machine. Like many Linux servers, he’s using some pretty old hardware which doesn’t have an on-board header for ...

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 ...

After a week with my new build I'm realizing that my fan curve settings are terrible. Bottom PWM fans are mapped to coolant temp, basically linear from 50% duty cycle @ 30 Celsius coolant to 100% duty ...