Faulty Gelid Tranquillo??

[Tortuga]

So when I put my new system together, I slapped on the Gelid. Looks cool, cheap, good reviews, solid choice for a mild overclock. Anyhoozle...when I put it on, plugged it into the pwm fan header, and powered on the system, it would spin, then stop for a few seconds, and the kinda start turning again, but not very fast. Like random stop and starts. Didn't look right. I went to my bios to turn it up to 100% but didn't change anything. Downloaded speedfan to see if I could change it that way, nothing worked. The gelid fan had a 4 pin connector. When I plugged in my stock intel cooler (4 pin) it worked like a champ. So its not the header or any of my settings. I assumed the gelid fan was faulty and sent it back. Anybody else experience anything like that? I'm stuck with the stock cooler for now, and will not be ordering another Tranquillo.

 

[sheroo]

Nothing's perfect - you're always going to get the odd manufacturing fault. From what I've heard Gelid are meant to be quite good.

 

[Lollipop]

Sometimes you get faulty hardware, that's how it is

 

[KaraMurat]

Haven't had a personal experience with Gelid products but have heard they offer cheap alternatives, people do have varying experiences with all companies though.

 

[ruthless_villain]

Long shot but maybe the header can power the mini intel fan but not the gelid so try ut on a molex i think

 

[Tortuga]

Long shot but maybe the header can power the mini intel fan but not the gelid so try ut on a molex i think

I thought about that. All the fan molex adapters that came with my case are for 3 pin fans. Looks like i'll look for a pwm to molex adapter.

 

[sheroo]

You should be able to run a 4 pin pwm fan off of a 3 pin header - it just runs at the max 12v.

Actually this is wrong. You can run a 3 pin fan off of a 4 pin pwm header and it will run at max 12v speed.