Undervolt Your Fans the Janky Way - Easy 7V Molex Mod Guide Tutorial Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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slick and I want to do subjective readings of some fans at 7 volts versus
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at 12 volts in terms of how they sound
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and uh we discovered that we don't have a single 12 to 7vt resistor in the
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entire Tech tip studio so uh because the
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rest of the office is closed off right now I'm forced to make myself a ghetto
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one I mean this is one of those never ever do this but I'm going to show you
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how to do it anyway just in case you ever have to kind of things so basically
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you've got a standard four pin two three
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pin adapter oh is this even going to be able to plug into all the fans I guess
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we'll have to uh well all you got to do is just cut away the um the casing
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anyway standard four pin MOA hog U
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peripheral connector to three pin so the way that voltage is derived is from a
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difference so yellow carries 12 volt black carries ground so that will
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deliver 12 volts to the fan however
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if I take okay so a way to deliver 5 volts to the fan would be to hook the
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fan up to this and this or this and this so this is this carries 5 volts this
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carries 12 these carry ground however if I want to deliver seven volts to the fan
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I can hook the 12vt up to the 5 volt and
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that will be a difference of 7 volts so
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I'm going to show you guys how to do this never ever do this of course and
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most importantly once you plug this in
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never plug like a hard drive or anything into this because it'll will be miswired
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now because I've changed these around so all you got to do if you guys have uh
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have ever depinned a Molex before then
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you'll know how to do this but you just kind of grab it uh it's better to have
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better tools but I don't happen to have my tools with me because we're trying to
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do something here and we don't have a whole lot of time so um there we go oh
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apparently the battery is running out on the camera too so I'll just work on this while slick goes and changes the battery
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and then we'll be good to go so all you do is bend the pins in with a needle a
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little bit so you bend those two tabs on either side of the pin so I'm just going
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to do this one really quick here uh just need to see where they are yeah with the
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camera there it's pretty hard to see what I'm doing but it's okay it's all good there we go okay so you pull that
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out once you pull it out you then bend the tabs back out so that they'll hook
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back in once you uh once you put them back in see how they're flared now and
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then the one that I bent in is not flared anymore so you just go ahead and
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stick that in there and sort of try to
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my needle's really dull now because I've used it for this an awful lot there you
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go flare that out flare that out so yeah
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once again like if you ever make yourself an adapter like this I have one
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at home that I made like what I did was I wrapped it up like this and then I
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like wrote on here 7v fan adapter like
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do not plug and then if you're really smart you might like cover this with
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something so you never accidentally plug something in so basically I'm going to
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take this and throw it in there take this and throw it in there
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and now I have made myself see how I
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have this now going to what is essentially 12vt and 5V I made myself a
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7v fan adapter which you should never do