Hi Everybody.
I am trying to figure out how to arrange and power my Cooler Master Eisberg 240L Prestige 60.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler and fans. My motherboard is the Asus Sabertooth X79 ATX LGA2011.
I currently have the radiator for the Eisberg cooler attached to the top of my case. The (mostly unintelligible) installation leaflet seems to be recommending that I attach two 140mm fans below the radiator to blow air up through it out the top. But there isn't room underneath the radiator to attach the fans because of the water tubes and memory sticks beneath it and because of the video card radiator and fan in the back (the video card is this insane Radeon 295x2 thing that spans the full length of my case and has integrated closed loop water cooling for its two GPUs).
I think this is okay and I plan to instead attach two 200mm fans on top of the radiator to pull air up through it. There are lots of fans all over the place so it seems like air should be circulating through the case well enough (lower front intake, top and back exhaust).
I actually have four questions:
1) Does that sound okay to you? Will the CPU radiator overheat?
no room for cpu radiator fans below radiator
2) Where do I connect the power plug for the Eisberg cooler water block pump? It has a 3 hole female connector. The fan headers on my mobo (Asus Sabertooth X79 ATX LGA2011) all seem to have 4 pins. Then there is this mysterious unlabeled header near the CPU fan header that has 3 pins and seems to fit the Eisberg pump plug. Actually it is labeled but the label is a bunch of weird numbers and letters like "P0133 PO200..." or something. I tried plugging the pump in there but it makes me nervous and I think it's wrong. I have not plugged in the power supply or tried powering on the system yet.
3 hole water pump power connector.jpg
4 pin fan headers and mysterious 3 pin header
water pump plugged into mysterious 3 pin header
3) What should I plug into the CPU Fan header? Will the mobo work if nothing is plugged in there? I was thinking of plugging in one of the 200mm top fans there and calling that one the "cpu fan". Does that sound okay? My case also has a big "fan hub" in back behind the mobo mounting area with 3-pin connections for like 8 or 10 fans and a throttle switch on the front of the case that controls the speed of all 8 or 10 of them. I could also plug the top fans in there and control them from the switch (probably I would just keep them always on then since they are effectively the CPU fans).
4) Even if I go with my first idea of plugging one top fan into the cpu fan header, the plug doesn't fit. I got four extra fans to attach in various places around the case and they all have 3-hole female power connectors, like the pump plug. Why does the header labeled "CPU Fan" have 4 pins? Other fan plugs on the mobo also have 4 pins. But all the headers on the fan hub on the case have the expected 3 pins. I'm a total noob and this is my first build so maybe I am missing something obvious. How do I plug 3-hole female fan power connectors into my motherboard?
Many thanks!
I am trying to figure out how to arrange and power my Cooler Master Eisberg 240L Prestige 60.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler and fans. My motherboard is the Asus Sabertooth X79 ATX LGA2011.
I currently have the radiator for the Eisberg cooler attached to the top of my case. The (mostly unintelligible) installation leaflet seems to be recommending that I attach two 140mm fans below the radiator to blow air up through it out the top. But there isn't room underneath the radiator to attach the fans because of the water tubes and memory sticks beneath it and because of the video card radiator and fan in the back (the video card is this insane Radeon 295x2 thing that spans the full length of my case and has integrated closed loop water cooling for its two GPUs).
I think this is okay and I plan to instead attach two 200mm fans on top of the radiator to pull air up through it. There are lots of fans all over the place so it seems like air should be circulating through the case well enough (lower front intake, top and back exhaust).
I actually have four questions:
1) Does that sound okay to you? Will the CPU radiator overheat?
no room for cpu radiator fans below radiator
2) Where do I connect the power plug for the Eisberg cooler water block pump? It has a 3 hole female connector. The fan headers on my mobo (Asus Sabertooth X79 ATX LGA2011) all seem to have 4 pins. Then there is this mysterious unlabeled header near the CPU fan header that has 3 pins and seems to fit the Eisberg pump plug. Actually it is labeled but the label is a bunch of weird numbers and letters like "P0133 PO200..." or something. I tried plugging the pump in there but it makes me nervous and I think it's wrong. I have not plugged in the power supply or tried powering on the system yet.
3 hole water pump power connector.jpg
4 pin fan headers and mysterious 3 pin header
water pump plugged into mysterious 3 pin header
3) What should I plug into the CPU Fan header? Will the mobo work if nothing is plugged in there? I was thinking of plugging in one of the 200mm top fans there and calling that one the "cpu fan". Does that sound okay? My case also has a big "fan hub" in back behind the mobo mounting area with 3-pin connections for like 8 or 10 fans and a throttle switch on the front of the case that controls the speed of all 8 or 10 of them. I could also plug the top fans in there and control them from the switch (probably I would just keep them always on then since they are effectively the CPU fans).
4) Even if I go with my first idea of plugging one top fan into the cpu fan header, the plug doesn't fit. I got four extra fans to attach in various places around the case and they all have 3-hole female power connectors, like the pump plug. Why does the header labeled "CPU Fan" have 4 pins? Other fan plugs on the mobo also have 4 pins. But all the headers on the fan hub on the case have the expected 3 pins. I'm a total noob and this is my first build so maybe I am missing something obvious. How do I plug 3-hole female fan power connectors into my motherboard?
Many thanks!