[SOLVED] Is it safe to plug 2 0.75A fans with single 4 pin header

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Hi i am building my first custom pc guys and i have Q Is it safe to plug 2 0.75A fans with single 4 pin header i have a motherboard (Gigabyte b550 gaming X V2 ) https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550-Gaming-X-V2-rev-1x#kf
i read my manual and they said All fan headers capability of delivering up to 2A/12V @ 24W.
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Most mobo fan headers are capable of providing a max current of 1.0 A. You claim your mobo manual says yours can do 2 A. I cannot find that in the manual. I used the link you provided to get the the web page for that mobo, and thus to its manual. p. 14 says nothing about their capacity. The ONLY place I found a 2 A spec is for the plain RGB lighting headers. If the 1 A limit applies, do NOT try to exceed that - you will permanently damage your mobo fan header. Your option, then, would be to plug only ONE of those fans into each of two separate SYS_FAN headers (you have three of these). Alternatively, if that leaves you with not enough headers for all your case fans, you can use a fan HUB that gets more power from the PSU, and can get speed control from a mobo header.
 
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Most mobo fan headers are capable of providing a max current of 1.0 A. You claim your mobo manual says yours can do 2 A. I cannot find that in the manual. I used the link you provided to get the the web page for that mobo, and thus to its manual. p. 14 says nothing about their capacity. The ONLY place I found a 2 A spec is for the plain RGB lighting headers. If the 1 A limit applies, do NOT try to exceed that - you will permanently damage your mobo fan header. Your option, then, would be to plug only ONE of those fans into each of two separate SYS_FAN headers (you have three of these). Alternatively, if that leaves you with not enough headers for all your case fans, you can use a fan HUB that gets more power from the PSU, and can get speed control from a mobo header.

not find in mobo manual i read Specification page mobo website you can see in the picture