The Globefans (model B1202512L-3M) work very well with PWM. I hear no noise at low speeds and they work down to 60 rpm. At high speeds they make a lot of noise but they also move a lot of air. They are one of the favorites in SPCR. I don't know how this compares to the Nexus, or how the Nexus behave...

If you really need this level of detail I think you should ask tech support at mCubed. They used to answer in a matter of minutes (who knows now, they are becoming more popular).

And don't forget to let us know once they answer...

I'm not sure what you mean by changing the PWM... A PWM fan signal is a square wave that has an amplitude of 12 V and a duty cycle that is variable. For instance, to achieve te equivalent of 2.4 VDC, you let the 12 VDC signal on 20% of the time and off 80% of the time, and so you get the same amount...

Changing the PWM frequency changes both the level and the frequency of the sound. Most of the people seems to find a comfortable spot around 80 Hz where the noise is not audible. In any case mCubed also offers unexpensive electronic attenuators that essentially convert the T-Balancer in a non PWM de...

peerke - take a look at the T-Balancer.

http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/index.htm

I think it does what you want. The fan on/off switch problem is easily solved with this controller and in fact I have 2 fans off most of the time.

If you don't need the front panel (i.e. as pure temperature to rpm controllers) then the T-Balancer and the Innovatek are a lot better than the Digidoc, that only allows to ON/OFF the fans.

BTW mCubed offers now a PWM to voltage converter for the T-Balancer.

I got a BeQuiet in February and I'm very happy with it, no problem so far and very quiet. I hear my suspended Samsung HD spinning make more noise than the PS. The BeQuiet does make a clicking noise but it is very faint. I can only hear it if I stop all the fans in the computer, and even then I have ...

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I have the diNovo and it is the best keyboard ever... for what I use it. Bluetooth is great, I see my computer screen in any TV of the house and I can use the keyboard and mouse from any place. And it is sleek and small, and so that it fits nicely in the kitchen or in the TV room. And it is very qui...

What is full spped? It should be 1850 rpm. You can check if the thermistor works just by touching it. Go to the BIOS page where the speeds of the fans are and try what happens when you touch the sensor. You probably have to start thinking in buying a fan controller. You have plenty of opinions and s...

You're right. If you have noise at 90% you'll have always noise. That's quite unusual but the attenuator should fix it. BTW if you buy from the mCubed store the shipping fee is 'only' 5 euro. The means why a resistor lowers the rattle is because the rattle usually only happens at slow rpm (not at 90...

I think the 12 cm Acoustifans are the same that my Globefans. Maximum speed is rated to 1850 rpm and you'd expect the thermo control circuit would achieve small rpms. The truth is that the actual range I have seen in the Globefans goes from 1450 (not at idle, but at start up) to 1800 rpm, so that by...

The attenuators will avoid the problem for sure. They convert from pwm to DC level, so that you eliminate resonance at its source and you get the same performance that you'd get with a resistor (Fanmate or any non PWM controller). In any case I'd like to hear your feedback if you buy them. Meanwhile...

I've read the article and it's very interesting. SilentTek is vastly superior to the Smart fan control in my Asus MB. Regarding the limitations, from the noise point of view I think the worst is the minimum speed of about 50% (or 5/6 VDC at 0%). This fan on/off bouncing is one of the reasons why I g...

I'm also trying to have fans stopped most or at least part of the time. Right now 2 out of 4 fans are stopped 100% of the time (intake and one exhaust), even when gaming. I can safely stop the third one (second exhaust) when not gaming without any impact in stability, but then the CPU temps raise an...

The controllers in those Ahanix boxes really don't have a lot of features. As Bluefront mentions the dBox controller is manual, and the Black Knight has only 6 steps. And both set all the fans to the same voltage. My father has the Black Knight and the controller does the job but it is really basic....

I have this one and I'm very happy with it:

http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/index.htm

No front panel, though. For me it's not really needed but you may want to have the external display.

Take a look at this one. It has a passthrough port to feed the fan rpm to the MB and avoid the alarm and you will be able to control the fans in addition to monitor the temperatures. http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/index.htm BTW, I've tried the software in my Dell without the hardware (it's installed...

The shop policy was that I had one month to return it with a restocking charge. I explained them about the noise and that this model was not meeting the objective that it was supposed to achieve (i.e. silence the computer) and they agreed and I even didn't have to pay the restocking fee. The mod is ...

Hi Becks, I'm glad you're as happy with yours as I am with mine. I also had some PWM noise (not with the 12 cm Globes, only with the CPU Artic Cooling) but I managed to tune it out by adjusting the frequency to 90 Hz. I was thinking on purchasing one of those attenuators but I don't think I need it....

I believe the noise comes from the inverter that powers the blue backlight of the display so that I planned to install an external switch to remove the 12 VDC power to the inverter. This way you can power off the display and the noise. The problem is that doing this involved some soldering in the PC...

There is a list of compatible fans in this link: http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/Luefterliste.html#table1 I have two Globe B1202512L-3M and they make no PWM noise. The CPU HSF is from Artic Cooling and it does show a very faint noise at low speeds, but to give you an idea the PWM noise at 20% rpm is ...

I got it yesterday and I'm extremely happy. It does everything exactly as advertised, smoothly changes the fan speeds and you can even program it to stop them. I spent less than half an hour playing with it to find my 'good' configuration, that has turned out to be that all my fans except the PS fan...

My experience, with two HDD connected to an Asus MB and 512 Mb of RAM. All drives set to power off after ten minutes. All the Operating System (Windows XP), applications and almost all data held in the first drive, the second drive mainly for back up purposes but also with some data. Result: the sec...

What about this one? It delivers 15 W per channel, can stop the fans, minimum rpm is 10% and the software seems to have a lot of potential.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=14648
http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/produkte.htm

You probably can consider also this one. It doesn't have the looks but the software seems impressing.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=14648
http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/produkte.htm

I have actually tried both 8 mm elastic cord and a thin (I would say 1 mm) packaging rope. I was lazy to go to the shop to buy the elastic rope so that I tried whatever I had at hand. Well, the difference is quite big. The rope did almost nothing to improve the vibration, and in some sense it even m...

Maximum power per fan isn't in the specs. However this review mentions something about 0.5 Amps per fan: http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=606&dPage=2 That's a lot more than a quiet computer will ever need, and it evens sounds as too much under any circumstances. But they make t...

The minimum voltage of the Hardcano 12 is 6 V. The user review you point at is wrong. Of course, 6 V may not be low enough for you, but it is not 7.75V. My CPU fan is rated for 3000 rpm and it usually runs below 1600 rpm when the computer is idle. It has a switch to select the maximum rpm between 20...