Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Ok, if you want me to call it a "speed controller" rather than a rheostat then to make you happy I'll call it a "speed controller" :-)
Personally, I'd prefer potentiometer. I had to go lookup what a "rheostat" is :-)
OK, just for you, and as a "Today Only Special", I'll call the gizmo a potentiometer :-) .
One "speed controller" controls the fans in the Antec PSU and the 120mm case fans and the other "speed controller" controls the blower cooling the heat pipes on the Gigabyte heatsink. It was the latter that was making the high-pitched noise.
Because it was going at max revs?
No, not at all. It has never run at its max. speed. Max speed is 4500 RPM and it normally runs at 2500 RPM. It's running at this speed at the moment but is not making a sound - I can hear the HDs reading/writing - because the lm_sensors file is not visible. Make it 'visible' to SUSE and the sound starts. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1