Recommended · for beginners
Stay cool this summer: PC Fan Mod
Why people recommend it
Offered as a helpful GreatScott guide to controlling a 12V fan with PWM, and at least one viewer worked from the schematic it shows.
Watch for: Concept carries over to similar loads
In their words
GreatScott has a good video where he uses PWM with a 12V fan, but the concept should be almost the same.
Benjamin Owen on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jun 2017. CC BY-SA.