Fan Speeds

[Lord Vetinari]

Got two case fans which are too loud if wired as 12V default- have tried wiring them to the 5V lines instead- nearly works but a bit too slow.
Was wondering if you can wire them in series on the 12 volt line thus getting 6 Volts on each.

This is on a new system with 8RDA+ MB xp2100 @2320Mhz and 9700 Pro.
With the case fans on 5V and running sandra burn in to steady state,I get temps of:- CPU 43.C and MB temp of 37.C. I'm not too worried about the CPU temp but thought the MB temp was high.

[Lord Vetinari]

Tried the above on my old comp (the one below) which happens to have lots of connectors around. To my suprise it seems to work wiring them in series.

[russ_watters]

There's no reason why it wouldn't work.