04-08-2021, 10:35 AM
(03-08-2020, 06:02 PM)admin Wrote: I don't use a fan anymore. I provide them with the Multi Expansion Board currently, but at some point I will stop. Terasic (the manufacturer of the DE-10) doesn't even recommend a heat sink, let alone a fan. Some of the universities have been doing projects that push the FPGA substantially faster than anything MiSTer has, and they only use a heat sink and have no issues.
I have two DE-10 Nanos/MiSTers and I just put one of these boards on one of them. I really like it. Great build quality!
Understanding that I probably could just leave the fan unplugged, if I wanted to run it (for obsessive compulsive reasons etc), but I wanted it to run quieter, could I just put a resistor in-line with it? If so what should be the value of it to roughly cut the RPMs to around 50% or maybe even 33%?