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    How to connect two fans to the same socket?

    So I just bought a new case and I have a back fan. I'm using a mini ATX motherboard. So I have 1 fan connected ti a 4 pin currently, and I hooked up the fan from the case (which is 3) to the 4 pin slot and it still turned on. Now I need to figure out how to split it. Ive seen splitters and such...
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    New Case, Different Power Button Pins Than Motherboard?

    Hey, so I have a Dell Inspiron 3647, to which I am upgrading with a new case, GPU and PSU. I am able to hook up every connector from the case to the motherboard except for the fan (which ill make a different thread for) and the power button. The layout is different for the pins and they have a...
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    Where to find missing CPU cooler backplate???

    So I recently bought a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo for my LGA 1366 core i7 920. The seller had forgotten to include the backplate for the cooler, which I messaged him and he realized he sold his motherboard that had the backplate still on. He just fully refunded me and told me to keep it. But i...
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    Keep good motherboard/crappy CPU or swap for crappy motherboard/good CPU???

    So I am thinking about just overclocking then, and buying the 212 Evo, I’ve seen them on eBay for around $20. This might be a question for the CPU part of the forum I can ask them but I figured I would ask you here first, I have the i7 920 but I also have a Xeon w3530, which one would be better...
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    Keep good motherboard/crappy CPU or swap for crappy motherboard/good CPU???

    So I currently have my gaming PC, which has a gigabyte X58 USB3 really nice motherboard, however the motherboards built in sound card doesn’t work and the Ethernet is broken so I have a PCI Ethernet card which works as if nothing was ever wrong and I have an external USB sound card. The...