TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[68Olds]

Hope I'm not too off topic -

I found an old Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz . It has win2000 on and works pretty well. However the cpu fan is driving me nuts, it's loud as f, I lubricated it and the situation got slightly better but still.. ...there's apparently no fan control feature in the bios and it's spinning at 5000+rpm which I presume is 100% speed.

I don't know how things worked way back then, is there a software I could install to control the fan speed? (temps are ok). The fan is 3pin.

Maybe try SpeedFan. Very popular back in the day of 3 wire fans.

Download Old Versions of SpeedFan for Windows - OldVersion.com

 

[Retrorockit]

The thing about the big Dell fans is they move enough air at low speed that they hardly ever need to speed up.
If you slow down a small fan so it's quiet, you might cause a cooling problem. I always go big on fans. The bigger the quieter due to low RPM. In my world that Beta V is the smallest fan I would use. I prefer the 150x50mm AFC1512DG 4 wire Delta for newer builds. By newer I mean BTX Dell overclocks.

 

[TOMCAT]

Hope I'm not too off topic -

I found an old Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz . It has win2000 on and works pretty well. However the cpu fan is driving me nuts, it's loud as f, I lubricated it and the situation got slightly better but still.. ...there's apparently no fan control feature in the bios and it's spinning at 5000+rpm which I presume is 100% speed.

I don't know how things worked way back then, is there a software I could install to control the fan speed? (temps are ok). The fan is 3pin.

3 pin has no speed control and speedfan is a good software option.
If you search for a hardware resolution, search for TC fan or TC cooler. TC stands for temperature control.

Examples:

That is a working solution of what Retrorockit shows as link. Here for north bridge cooling with a simple resistor, no TC. Reduces fan speed from 5000 rpm to 3800 rpm.


Cheap version of that time, manual speed control by potentiometer.


Manual speed control at the cooler fan. Sold this way, but you have to open the case for regulation.


That is an example which was common for overclockers, a speed fan controller with internal temperatur sensors and a display for temps.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Hope I'm not too off topic -

I found an old Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz . It has win2000 on and works pretty well. However the cpu fan is driving me nuts, it's loud as f, I lubricated it and the situation got slightly better but still.. ...there's apparently no fan control feature in the bios and it's spinning at 5000+rpm which I presume is 100% speed.

I don't know how things worked way back then, is there a software I could install to control the fan speed? (temps are ok). The fan is 3pin.

We used/use fan controllers like this one I have in my winxp rig

 

[jak_2456]

3 pin has no speed control and speedfan is a good software option.

You can do it with modern motherboards via voltage control. Not nearly as good as PWM but still better than nothing.

 

[QuietBob]

We used/use fan controllers like this one I have in my winxp rig

Yep, still in service in my main Win7 rig:

 

[y2faulty]

thx for all suggestions.

Yes, I remember fondly those front panel mmhh.. panels? Along with the cigarette lighter ones and the audio ones late 90s early 00s really leaned heavily on the fast and furious aesthetic, and cases were much more a personal affair than they are now were pretty much every PC looks the same.

anyway, tried speedfan (the older version I fuound), works perfectly but the fan unfortunately either stops (if below 20%) or goes fullspeed (if above 20%). I guess the problem is the mobo or the fan itself doesnt really respond to the voltage variation. Oh well. I'll just bare with it until I decide what to do whit the pc, either sell it, strip it to parts and selle them separately, or keep it (unlikely, I don't have room).

 

[Radical Vision]

Latest mobo i got is this beauty, kinda happy i got this model yet again, as i had it years ago, but sold it, as 478 was not my thing at the time. Interestingly high end 478 boards are about non existent locally, this MSI model is the only one i have ever seen, and some crap like BIOstar 865pe, some Intel desktop boards and A$Rock, but no ABIT, no DFI LanParty ( i think there was one years ago) no GIGAbyte...



Moved mah beloved socket 462 system with the heavy OC Athlon XP-M 2600+ @2.6GHz real speed, in its new case (yeah the cable management is amazing i know), i got a bit later that Cooler Master Praetorian case (cousin of ATC-S cases), now i think that maybe will be way better case for the system...