Cutting the PWM wire on one of the PWM fans worked fine. I cut the wire on the fan's daisy chain cable, so any PWM fans daisychained to this fan operate at max RPM, while the wire-cut fan and any preceding it in the chain operate as PWM. And I covered the cut ends in a little electrical tape to prevent contact with anything else inside the case. Saves the expense and additional wiring of adapters to convert the PWM fan to fixed/max speed fan.
Bought a used XPS 8930 with i7-8700 and Intel CPU cooler. What a howler. I replaced the cooler with the Arctic Freezer 11 LP. Still loud, but at least the CPU runs cooler. Then I added 3 Arctic 120mm F12 PWM fans, replacing the 92mm exhaust fan, and putting two of these at the front as intake fans. Much better, but can still get fairly loud when CPU load is high. I'm pretty sure the Arctic CPU cooler fan is louder than the 3 case fans. I'd like to try running the lower intake and the exhaust fans at max RPM (1350) continuously to see if that higher level of continuous noise reduces the frequency of CPU fan ramp up (CPU fan max is 2000 RPM). The 8930 mobo case fan header is PWM, and there are no 3-pin fan headers on this board. The F12 PWM PST fans came with splitters so I can daisy chain fans. What's the easiest/cheapest way to get 1 or 2 of these fans to run at max RPM? I see this at Microcenter, but seems like the SATA end should be male to connect to a spare SATA female connector coming from the PSU? [URL]
XPS 8930, case fans, how to set to max?