Confused about FAN Water Pump and CPU Fan

[ateneouw]

I recently got my liquid cooler Captain 240 EX.
Now the FAN connector coming from the PUMP where do i attach it? I think in CPU FAN?

And the 2 other ones connectors, where do i plug them?

 

[HamBown81]

Check this out:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/deepcool-captain-240-ex-review,6.html

One is for the pump and the other two are for the fans on the radiator. I would plug the pump into your CPU header and the fans I would split off of another header if you want them in sync.

 

[HamBown81]

What motherboard do you have? How many other fans, case fans etc. ?

 

[ateneouw]

I got an ASUS Maximus iX Hero. I forgot to mention (sorry my bad english) that the Captain 240 EX came with a "join", i mean, it has a utility that you plug up to 4 fans and then goes to 1 fan connector (4 pins).

I currently have connected the PUMP to CPU FAN header and then the other 2 to this "utility" that i connect to a normal FAN HEADER.

I got 3 fans, 2 connected to motherboard and 1 to the PSU (since i broke the yellow cable of the third fan connector).

The Motherboard HAS: AIO_PUMP, CPU_OPT, CPU_FAN, CHA_FAN1, CAH_FAN2, CHA_FAN3, W_PUMP, W_FLOW.

I don't know what AIO_PUMP, W_PUMP and W_FLOW is for?
I think CPU_OPT is a like a second CPU_FAN. Am i correct?

 

[HamBown81]

Here is the page from your manual that shows the specs and control for all of the headers

 

[HamBown81]

So it looks like that AIO header will run the pump at full speed all the time. Maybe better to use the two CPU fan headers if you want to control the pump speed.

 

[ateneouw]

Thans man it worked!!

 

[ateneouw]

Sorry to bother you again.
I plugged the PUMP to AIO and the Radiator fans one to CPU_FAN and the other to OPT_FAN.
Is that ok?

 

[HamBown81]

Sorry to bother you again.
I plugged the PUMP to AIO and the Radiator fans one to CPU_FAN and the other to OPT_FAN.
Is that ok?

Yes, that should work fine, with the caveat that your pump will always run at full speed.

If you want to use a software solution to vary the pump speed, I would plug the pump into one of the CPU fan headers and the radiator fans into the other.