First post, by bofh.fromhell
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Now I'm the first to acknowledge that I tend to have some bad luck when thinking.
A howling G400 MAX gave me inspiration to search for a solution.
So when browsing around for a PC slot mounted cooler it just hit me.
They all require external power, and with that ugly cables in my PC ! (old gear rarely has spare fan connectors).
Why are there no PCI slot mounted fans ? (or any other slot variant for that matter).
I mean a small PCB with an 80mm (or whatever size TBH) fan cutout drawing power from the PCI slot should be very easy and cheap to make no ?
Even with a 5v to 12v step up theres no way the powerdraw would be more then just a few watts.
And since you already have a PCB, throwing on extra *bling* like speed controls, temp sensoring or (*shudder*) LED's would be so easy !
Heck you could even add a PWM controller.
What am I missing here ?
Has it been done ?
If not, why not !
And if not, can anyone recommend some discrete looking solution ?
I could DYI of, and have done so in the past, but i want something pretty this time =)