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anyone here using theirs without the fan mate? I heard it draws too much current and can overheat and damage the mobo headers. is this true? im not using the fan mate on mine thats why im a bit concerned
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Bleed said:I've read it here
Yes, if the fan draws too much current, you can overheat and damage the mobo header.
Ralf Hutter said:
Notice that reply says:
Note the "if", not "it does".
I also highly doubt that you'd have a problem plugging the fan directly into the fan header. If you're worried about it, just plug it into the Molex, or leave it plugged into the Fanmate with the Fanmate turned up all the way.
Bleed said:I've read it here
jkesa said:Yes, if the fan draws too much current, you can overheat and damage the mobo header. What I would do if I were you is get a 3 pin to molex adapter (around $1) and hook it up straight to the power supply. If you want rpm monitoring also, cut/remove the yellow(usually) rpm wire and hook that to the mobo by itself.
YellowDart said:SSS knows all...
Silversinksam said:
Yah right, I can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, but I know that you can connect a Zalman fan to an IC7-G safely
Dazz said:Yeah but you should note that the fan mate reduces the voltage by a percentage and may only output 7W of power tops but the fan have a higher top speed. Just like a 40mm 5000rpm fan on their HS memory uses a PSU to fan header converter, now the 92mm is four time bigger. If in any doubt remove the fan from the HS and check the specs on the fan. You can use it still on the board but if you start to suffer from stablity problems then thats a good sign it's taking more then it should.
modenaf1 said:I dont know if this means that much now that SSS made that god like post, but anyways, My old Thermal Take Smart Fan 2 ran at 5900 rpm, thats some seriouse overvolting, I wouldnt be surprised if it used up more power than a vantec tornado. It moves 75CFM at 4800 and mine was at 5900. Thats some power running through to make it spin that fast.
I have an Abit motherboard, and I had it hooked up right to the mobo, and i have not had any problems with it at all.
Now if that hairdryer sounding beast didnt short my little wimpy 3 pin header I doubt one of those zalman fans will short anything out. Also i might add that i didnt even have the 12v power connector to my mobo hooked up, my psu was already totally maxed out and my cpu was running quite fast for that PSU, and still not a single problem running it on the mobo header. Now if you were to run it off the mobo of like a gateway from 1995 with a pentum 66Mhz processor, yeah that MIGHT give you soem trouble, but these days, nah, i wouldnt worry.
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Silversinksam said:
Why was your Smart Fan 2 running so fast? Did you 'cross' the sensor wire to make it run at top speed?
modenaf1 said:
nope, just the rheostat at max. I created a thread on it back then. It was one of my first threads, actually i think it was my first thread. Anyways, other people's SMF2's were running that fast as well. For some reason the old ones were really fast. Id say it pushed more air than the tornado, but it was really loud, like my moms old hair dryer loud. It had this constant eeerrrrrr whine to it. But, my new one is like a panaflow at low rpms. But it only goes to 4800.
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