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Cool and quiet for hardware hackers

With only a pair of scissors, a tiny screwdriver and this guide from Hardware Secrets you can mod any fan into a 3 speed fan. It offers even the beginning modder a chance at a successful project, but it will lower the noise in your system from all of those high speed fans. Even better, since all you are doing is undervolting the fan, you aren’t likely to find a way to hurt anything in your system.