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I am setting up my water cooling system. My pump has a 4 pin molex connector and what looks like a fan connector. The fan connector only has 1 blue wire on it. Not sure if I should just connect to a fan port on my mobo or what. Also my mobo has places for cpu, chassis, and optional fans. What would I plug my radiator fans into. My mobo is the asus maximus extreme IV-Z. Still new to water cooling.
 
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Whats the model of your pump? I'm almost certain its a monitor/rpm thing but can't check without knowing the model,
radfans can either go into a fancontroller (popular choice) or straight to the psu, but they will then be at 100% speed all the time, I don't know of anyone that has radfans running off the motherboard
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Whats the model of your pump? I'm almost certain its a monitor/rpm thing but can't check without knowing the model,
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That would be my guess too.

radfans can either go into a fancontroller (popular choice) or straight to the psu, but they will then be at 100% speed all the time, I don't know of anyone that has radfans running off the motherboard
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I run a few of mine off my motherboard, but only because I want them running @ 100%. I'm actually switching to lower noise fans (bought the 4 pack of Cooler Master fans that are 19 dBA @ 43 CFM for $12) rather than a controller simply because it's cheaper.
 
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The fans I have use a twister bearing so they are silent at any speed. I got the pump mod kit from frozen cpu with the adjustible pump. I dont have a fan controller yet so I just have them hooked into the mobo right now. I cant plug my fans into the psu right now as it has no hook ups for fans since its modular. It has 8 molex connectors though. All my fans have the white end with 3 pins instead of 4. I will get a fan controller later as I already spent $4‚000 on it.
 
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I don't think it's PWM, but it could be. Most D5's with variable speed simply have a dial on the back of the housing which requires it to be manually adjusted. I think Koolance had a version of the D5 that was supposed to be pump controller enabled, but my guess is that 3-pin is for monitoring. If the 3-pin has 2-3 wires coming from it, I would say it's PWM, but if it is only 1 wire on a 3-pin header, I would say its monitoring and would also still need a molex connection (which is what I have seen on many).
 
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Is there a difference between the power, cpu, chassis, and optional fan connectors on my mobo? I have 3 fans on my rad for now but plan to add 3 more on it. I have 2 fans on the back for either exhaust or to pull air in. Should I have the fans pull air in or push air out through rad. I have the 800d case. Also have a fan on the bottom pulling qir from bottom. Is there a way to tell which way a fan blows without turning them on.
 
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Figured out which way the fans blow now. Still need to know the differance of the fan connectors. like does one type stay on all the time or do some shut off randomly.
 
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Still need to know the differance of the fan connectors. like does one type stay on all the time or do some shut off randomly.
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whats your mobo make and model?

I'm not sure about the "optical fan connectors" - I don't know if I've seen those before.
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i have them on my asus rampage extreme x48 mobo.

apparently most asus boards have them
Is there a way to tell which way a fan blows without turning them on.
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its kinda like the right hand rule only the current will be going down.

 
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Huh. Never owned an Asus board. I wonder what they are/what qualifies as an "optical fan"
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Visible ones...just in case you also might run invisible fans. Otherwise, I'm thinking they are fans for 3D glasses to keep them from fogging on the insides, similar to paintball goggles or scuba goggles.

Disclaimer- this post is purely satire.
 
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Invisible fans? Sounds like I'm out of a job lol, no more wires to hide.......
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Nice pump Op, all sorted on the monitoring wire then?
and as your psu is modular, you know you just run adaptors from the molex to the fans? or,
if you are adding fans at the rate I am, buy several fan controllers, plug the 3pins into them and plug a molex into the fan controller
:)
Moto
 
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