Question Corsair H100I v2 onto ryzen 2700x w/ MSI x470 pro carbon

[T15ER]

Setup:
Currently stock cooler looking to go back to my h100I v2 corsair pump
Mobo - MSI x470 pro carbon
CPU Ryzen 7 2700x

Hey all - basically I am gun shy after the last couple weeks of just non stop issues. I finally got my PC back up and stable after bread boarding it last night and man was it annoying. Long story short I swapped out 3 pieces, MOBO, CPU, CPU cooler after about a week of trouble shooting and I don't know which piece is actually bad. I am somewhat confident the cooler is still good because it was only on the old setup for a couple days and even in the fiasco of the previous setup the fans and all were running and the tubes were one warm and one cool etc.

I want to put the H100I water pump back on the setup I currently have running rather than running the stock AMD heatsink but need to understand where the pump/fan power needs to go and what needs to be done with it to be setup for a water pump. I prefer a quieter setup so don't want the fans just full blast all the time. From what I read it would go to the CPU fan 1 header on the mobo just like the AMD current stock fan is connected to and then LED down to USB, is that all correct? anything else need to be done or is it ok to leave it on smart fan for MSI and the pump/fans will get the power they need?

Thanks,

 

[ElectrO_90]

It's just plug and play.
Plug into CPU header as you said and the other cable will go into a USB header, normally located bottoom left of your motherboard.
Fans are connected with the cable coming from the block.
Mount the rad where you think its easy to mount to, normally the top, and put fans to the top of the case and the rad behind the fans. Make sure fans are blowing INTO the case for better cooling.

 

[hunter47]

Mm I think the aio header will be more good when connecting to the CPU header the are on full speed and when it is connected to the aio header u can control it moreover it will be a nice setup the temps will be ok

 

[hunter47]

Mm I think the aio header will be more good when connecting to the CPU header the are on full speed and when it is connected to the aio header u can control it moreover it will be a nice setup the temps will be ok

And the aio header has low fan speed which not low sort of like the mid high

 

[T15ER]

Hey all -

So I tried it again and still no good. Everything is fine with stock cooler on and runs at good stable temps. Once I put the H100I on, I change the header to DC and move all the circles up to give it constant 12v on an MSI specific board after removing smart fan. Go into windows, the pump wasn't detected in Link but CPU temp was constantly rising and hits max then shuts off.