Liquid cooler. Where to plug fans and pump?

[Wort]

Hey guys. So 2 months ago I bought Raijintek TRITON cooler (http://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/henry-butt/raijintek-triton-aio-liquid-cpu-cooler-review/).
In the package along with the cooler I got two Molex to 3pin connectors, so you could plug waterpump and radiator fans directly to psu. After a week or so I RMA the cooler because it leaked, and today I got a new one (same model). This time, there were no molex to 3pin adapters included. It looks like there's new User manual, and there's not a single word about those 2 connectors. It looks like Raijintek took a different approach to plugging fans and waterpump.

Now I'm wondering, since there's no instructions about plugging the water pump, where on motherboard is it safe to plug those?

I connected fans to case's speed controller along with the other case fans (got Fractal Design define r4), but I don't know where to plug waterpump. It's currently plugged to PWR_FAN, but I have no idea whether this is safe or not.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jpsulisz]

Hey guys. So 2 months ago I bought Raijintek TRITON cooler (http://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/henry-butt/raijintek-triton-aio-liquid-cpu-cooler-review/).
In the package along with the cooler I got two Molex to 3pin connectors, so you could plug waterpump and radiator fans directly to psu. After a week or so I RMA the cooler because it leaked, and today I got a new one (same model). This time, there were no molex to 3pin adapters included. It looks like there's new User manual, and there's not a single word about those 2 connectors. It looks like Raijintek took a different approach to plugging fans and waterpump.

Now I'm wondering, since there's no instructions about plugging the water pump, where on motherboard is it safe to plug those?

I connected fans to case's speed controller along with the other case fans (got Fractal Design define r4), but I don't know where to plug waterpump. It's currently plugged to PWR_FAN, but I have no idea whether this is safe or not.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

With my Corsair H55 I have it set to the pump on the PWR_Fan option, and my fans are connected to the motherboard, you should try to connect the fans to your CPU_Fan first then fill your System_Fan if you ever add another fan.

 

[Karadjgne]

Depends on who you are, what fan you have and what motherboard.

For example, my h55 comes with a 3 pin analog fan. My motherboard has cpu_fan and pwr_fan. Corsair instruction says to put the pump on cpu_fan and the fan on anything else. Well that doesn't work for me. Pwr_fan was the closest fan connector and for me pwr_fan is not controllable, its a constant 12v, and cpu_fan only controls pwm 4pin fans. So, pump went onto pwr_fan as you do not want it controlled anyways, it needs to run full speed constantly, so that was good, and fan went onto cpu_fan until I replaced the 3pin with a pwm 4pin.

So now pump works always, and cpu_fan controls my cpu fan. Contrary to Corsair instructions.

How you set yours up is up to you, but I would use the motherboard connectors and definitely not directly hook to psu with molex adapters, as you will have 0 capability to read rpm. If the pumps rpm suddenly stops or dramatically drops off, its failing, so being able to monitor that is a good thing.

You will, however, have to have something, anything, connected to cpu_fan, or the cpu fan alarm will not allow you to turn on the pc, in order to prevent cpu damage.