Slower than Fanmate 2?

[kiblams]

I recently had my pc restart for no obvious reason, and now the system fan control doesn't work for my motherboard

Since then I have been using a Fanmate 2 and the problem is that on the lowest setting it is too fast.

I used to set the case fan to 25-32% which was ~260RPM and the lowest that I can get with the fanmate is 360RPM. Below 300RPM for the 220mm fan is bearable for me and anything above annoys me.

Anyone know how I can reduce the fan speed further? would adding one of those cables that reduce from 12V to 10V help?

Cheers guys.

[Vicotnik]

You could try feeding the Fanmate 5v instead of 12v and hope that the voltage drop at the max setting isn't too large. I think Zalman has an adapter if you're not up to doing the wiring yourself.
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Pro ... sp?Idx=224

[kiblams]

Thanks for the suggestion but after some thought I had a great Idea, I can use the CPU fan connector for the 220mm case fan and use the fanmate for the CPU fan.

Now I have the CPU fan on a steady 800RPM and using SpeedFan I can set the casefan to respond to both temps and run much slower

So chuffed I have silence once again!

[Shaman]

When you feed a fanmate with 5V, the output is ~3.5V. This is a fixed voltage though and turning the fanmate knob won't change it.