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Re: CPU fan third wire
« on: April 22, 2011, 11:40:44 AM »
Yes, that third wire on modern fans is feedback to the motherboard of the speed - it gives a pulse every revolution of the fan which is where modern machines get their information from in CPU monitoring applications etc. Cutting it won't make a difference, and anyway I don't know of any Amiga software to make use of the feedback. Classics certainly can't without a bunch of additional hardware...
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