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July 28th, 2007
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| Join Date: Jul 2007
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|  Connections Hi I need some advice. I have a COOLER MASTER GeminII with two fans and a EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboard. Is splicing the two fans together to make the motherboard connection a good idea? Also when I ordered the fan I made a mistake and got only one. Long story short I ordered again and now have one Arctic 12L (1000 RPM) and one Artic 12 (1500 RPM) is that a problem? Thanks |
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July 28th, 2007
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 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Re: Connections No it's not a problem to splice them together even if they are different fans. Be careful when doing this with more powerful fans as it's possible you can overload the motherboard fan header.   I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220 |
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July 28th, 2007
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| Stoopid Head  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
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| Re: Connections Quote:
I have a GeminII also, and I just plug them (the fans on the GeminII) in via Molex connector and it works out fine. Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL + Thermalright HR-05 IFX 2GB G.Skill 800MHz F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Silverstone Decathlon 650W Western Digital 250GB SATA II | |
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July 28th, 2007
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| Re: Connections First thanks for your help. This is not the first computer I have built but it has been a while. The last one was a 486 and a lot has changed. It is a case of knowing less than I used to. If you were me would you stick with the missmatched fans or get a matched pair of Artic 12L? The 12's move more air but with more noise. I have an Armor case and it seems there should be no problem with heat considering it has five fans. |
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July 28th, 2007
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| Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Re: Connections I would just keep em unless they are giving you poor results. I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220 |
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September 19th, 2007
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| I'm Diggin it!  | Re: Connections There's so many fan headers on a 680SLI mobo, I think 6, that you should have no problems hooking each one to it's own header. Q6600@ 3.2GHz w/ CNPS9700 | EVGA 780i | 2Gb Corsair DDR2-800 | EVGA GTX 280 1Gb Video | 1x WD 640Gb HDD, 2x Seagate 400Gb HDD, 1x250Gb WD | 2x Samsung SH-203B Opticals | Antec 900 | ABS/Tagan BZ700 700W PSU |
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September 19th, 2007
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| Stoopid Head Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
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| Re: Connections Two different fans on the GeminII shouldn't be a problem. I know of a few cases where some people had a larger 38mm thick fan over the CPU and a skinneir fan over the memory to save weight.  Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL + Thermalright HR-05 IFX 2GB G.Skill 800MHz F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Silverstone Decathlon 650W Western Digital 250GB SATA II |
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September 19th, 2007
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| Uber Cool High Nerd  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Pocatello, ID
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| Re: Connections They're still pretty low-power fans, so all should be fine. I wouldn't be connecting any very high-speed 120x38mm fans to a 3pin header on the motherboard though.  Join us on the unofficial HL IRC Channel! Server - irc.synirc.org Channel - #hardwarelogic "Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'can't install Gentoo.'" - Unknown |
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September 19th, 2007
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| Modder-ator  | Re: Connections On a side, somewhat related note, how do you like the full speed Arctic Cooling Arctic Fan 12 eyemars? I'm thinking about getting four or five for my new case and am looking for something less than $10 that is pretty quiet to start off with, but can be toned down via fan controller to virtually silent and the Arctic Fan 12 seemed to fit the bill. Oh yeah, Welcome to HardwareLogic!!! :wavey:  |
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September 19th, 2007
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| Uber Cool High Nerd Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Pocatello, ID
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| Re: Connections Quote:
Join us on the unofficial HL IRC Channel! Server - irc.synirc.org Channel - #hardwarelogic "Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'can't install Gentoo.'" - Unknown | |
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