General Fan Performance Guide

Lars Olsen writes: "As a complementary article to his comprehensive General Heat Transfer Guide , Dave Smith has written another great article for Amdmb.com called General Fan Performance Guide. This is an indepth guide to the performance of the fans we have in our PC's. Here's a quote: 'The specific purpose of this guide is to take the science associated with fans and translate it into a meaningful document that will allow the reader to understand how fans work and how they apply to computers. It provides a brief summary of DC power and drives. It finishes with an introduction to the concepts of sound generation and measurement.'"

Comments

Fan monitoring in Linux

[CmdrTroll]

For anyone out there (myself included) who got the hankering to monitor their CPU fan speeds under Linux, try out wmalms, a handy dock applet that reads the I2C bus and reports fan activity. It could save your CPU.

-CT

Re:Isn't this all kind of pointless?

[Ryan_Amdmb]

While the General Fan Guide is a solid piece of technical writing on its own, you may want to read the Guide to Heat Transfer that was also posted, as the two topics inter-mingle so much, it may make more sense to you.

Yes, some of the information may be more technical than needed for everyday computer enthusiasts, but that doesn't mean others aren't curious or they can't find a use for the information and theory presented in both articles.