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power supply fan replacement

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TheGreySpectre

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Sep 6, 2003
I have a Sparkle 400 wt power supply that I want to replace the fan in. But the fan is wire into the PS if I just cut the wires connceting the fan to the PS will the PS still work or will it stop working because it thinks it has no fan. I was going to put a smarttfan II in and just run the power cable out the back of the powersupply and connect it to the mobo
 
You can swap out the fan in a power supply but don't leave the PSU without a fan and run it. It will get hot quick. If you have some soldering skillz you can butcher the wires on the smartfan and have it so that the +12v and ground wires go to the PSU connector (assuming the PSU hasn't got a thermal sensing fan - don't attempt a mod with a SFII if it has) and splice a very long cable into the fan sensing wire, then put that on the motherboard for RPM monitoring. Then either put the fan on thermal or on manual.
 
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