Volcano 6cu+ rumor I heard

[MuKow]

I was at a site checking prices on Volcano 6 cooling fans and it said that you need to use the 3-pin to pass-through adapter that comes with it or else your motherboard will fry. Has anyone had that happen to them? Do you think it could happen?

[LutaWicasa]

I don't know about frying the mobo, but I have seen juice thirsty fans burn out fan headers.

[Yakbak]

I wouldn't recommend plugging this 7000+RPM fan into the 3 pin mobo header...the fan drains 4.44W and .37A, which is higher than most motherboards provide. Use the pass through connector to power through the power supply, or get a cable that will give you the RPM sensor wire to plug into mobo while powering thru PS.

[SickBoy]

Doesn't surprise me. A lot of these high RPM fans need to be run directly from the PSU. It's not at all hard to adapt them so that you can still read the RPM though.

[heavy1]

this is interesting.

i just bought a msi kt266 pro2 with an athlonxp1600 and a volcano6Cu+. when I first put it together it worked fine. shut it down, turned it on and nothing! then i tore it apart, put it back together and it worked again. then i shut it down, started it up and nothing again. i made several attemps to get it going again with no luck. I had a bad feeling about hooking this monster fan up to the 3pin mb slot but thats what i did anyway. the board has been rma'd and i should be getting the replacement real soon.

Do you think hooking the V6Cu+ to the mb could have been my problem?

Heavy

[reidroach]

yah lol.....my friend had a high speed delta and his board fried, got it replaced though lucky!

[-EternitY-]

Okay.....

Your not suppose to screw With powersupplies even when there off.

A) If i got a Delta, It comes with a 3 Pin Motherboard ADAPTOR.
How could i run it throw some other place, with it being safe?

I have a fan adaptor thing that - You plug the 3 Pin fan into the thing, and there's a little adaptor and it goes to your powersupply.. Is that what your talking about? Or OPEN Your powersupply?

[Yakbak]

We are talking about changing the 3 pin plug to a 4 pin power connector, the same type as you woulduse to power a hard drive (the big blocky white power plug).

[-EternitY-]

Yeah... I Got a extra one of those...But isnt that unreliable? Or should i get a fan detector when the RPMS drop under 2000 rpms it beeps?

[Yakbak]

If you're talking about power reliability, I'd trust the power supply more, since you know it has the extra juice to power a high speed fan, while a mobo may be damaged by some power jolt or extra power drain from the fan.

If you divert the sensor wire, and plug it in the 3rd pin on the motherboard, you could read the RPM and set up software sensors and alarms.

[The Pingmaster]

I'm running an Abit KR7-raid right now with the TT CU+ 7000RPM fan plugged into motherboard fan header number one, and have never had any problems....

:eh?: :eh?: :eh?:

[Yodums]

Your signature is very long Eternity longer than a long thread heh..

But anyways, the Everflow fan equipped with the 6cu+ shouldn't be plugged in the motherboard because it may destroy the fan header as well as taking the motherboard with it or damaging to a critical point.

You can just take the 3 pin to 4pin connecter and hook it up to the psu. Why would you want to RPM sensor it really unless you are concerned the fan may die out and you want it to turn off when it hits 0rpm or ....?

Yodums