PoorbandTony
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- Nov 15, 2014
Hi,
I'm having some trouble understanding the cabling on my new motherboard and the Thermaltake Water 3.0 Performer.
The 2 fans join to a Y-splitter, and that connection is a 4 pin female socket.
The other cable coming out of the actual pump is 3 pin.
However, my motherboard - a Z97X Gaming GT - has 2 connections relating to the CPU fans - CPU_Fan and CPU_Opt. Both of these are male 4 pin connections.
My question is - which cable goes where? According to the motherboard manual - the CPU_Fan has the following config :
Pin 1 = GND, 2 = +12v, 3=Sense and 4=Speed Control
And CPU_OPT is :
1 = GND, 2 = Speed Control, 3 = Sense and 4 = VCC.
My confusion is two-fold - firstly, can I just plug the 3 pin cable into one of the 4 pin connections - and if so, which way around do I plug them in - the fans to CPU_Fan and pump to Cpu_OPT, or the other way around? I understand that one controls the pump, and the other the 2 large fans, and that the pump needs a constant power input - but I'm baffled on what goes where.
I'd really appreciate the help - been a very long time since I've built a PC.
Cheers,
Tony
I'm having some trouble understanding the cabling on my new motherboard and the Thermaltake Water 3.0 Performer.
The 2 fans join to a Y-splitter, and that connection is a 4 pin female socket.
The other cable coming out of the actual pump is 3 pin.
However, my motherboard - a Z97X Gaming GT - has 2 connections relating to the CPU fans - CPU_Fan and CPU_Opt. Both of these are male 4 pin connections.
My question is - which cable goes where? According to the motherboard manual - the CPU_Fan has the following config :
Pin 1 = GND, 2 = +12v, 3=Sense and 4=Speed Control
And CPU_OPT is :
1 = GND, 2 = Speed Control, 3 = Sense and 4 = VCC.
My confusion is two-fold - firstly, can I just plug the 3 pin cable into one of the 4 pin connections - and if so, which way around do I plug them in - the fans to CPU_Fan and pump to Cpu_OPT, or the other way around? I understand that one controls the pump, and the other the 2 large fans, and that the pump needs a constant power input - but I'm baffled on what goes where.
I'd really appreciate the help - been a very long time since I've built a PC.
Cheers,
Tony