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Connectors usually used for computer fans are the following: Three-pin Molex connector KK family This Molex connector is used when connecting a fan to the motherboard or other circuit board. It is a small, thick, rectangular in-line female connector with two polarizing tabs on the outer-most edge of one long side.
Full-tower computer cases may contain multiple cooling fans. At the top of the case is a fan controller. Fan control is the management of the rotational speed of an electric fan. In computers, various types of computer fans are used to provide adequate cooling, and different fan control mechanisms balance their cooling capacities and noise they ...
A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan. Vertical aluminium ...
An opened ATX case, front towards right. Components pictured include a microATX motherboard (top), a CPU (beneath the Cooler Master fan), a GPU (middle), and an SSD (right). The power supply is housed in the compartment at bottom. A computer case, also known as a computer chassis, is the enclosure that contains most of the hardware of a ...
Some computer fans, especially smaller ones (80mm or less) use a 2-pin connector, which is present on graphics cards. It is somehow similar to the 3-pin Molex connector used for fans, but it is not just a 3-pin Molex with one pin less. You cannot plug these connectors into 3-pin Molex headers. Many of these fans can be found here e.g. and .
A fan-cooled heat sink on the processor of a personal computer. To the right is a smaller heat sink cooling another integrated circuit of the motherboard. Typical heatsink-fan combination found on a consumer laptop.
If you've been having trouble with any of the connections or words in Tuesday's puzzle, you're not alone and these hints should definitely help you out. Plus, I'll reveal the answers further down ...
A regular computer case may require/include [5] 7 thumb screw 6-32 × 6 mm for 2.5” drive tray, expansion slots; 4 hexagon screw 6-32 × 6 mm for psu; 21 phillips screw 6-32 × 5 mm for motherboard, 3.5” harddisk tray; 12 phillips screw M3 × 5 mm for 2.5” harddrive; 16 KB5 x 10 mm for fans; 9 standoff 6-32 × 6.5 + 4 mm for motherboard