4 wire juice for 3 pin fan monitoring?

[dgk]

Rumor has it that using the standard 4 wire power connectors is better than using the 3 pin onboard fan connectors because that way none of the power has to go through the MB and heat it up or stress it. That does make some sense to me.

I wouldn't mind going that route and I know that I would just need to hook up the fan to the yellow (12 volt) power wire and one of the black ground wires. But, I also want the fan monitored, and that only happens through the onboard 3 pin connectors.

So, can I split the wires with two going to the 4 wire connectors (y plugs are cheap) and the third to the MB monitoring pin? Which wires on the 3 pin fans are the power and which one goes to which pin on the (A7V in my case) MB?

Does this make sense to anyone? Just wondering.

 

[DE]

dgk (Feb 23, 2001 08:57 a.m.):
Rumor has it that using the standard 4 wire power connectors is better than using the 3 pin onboard fan connectors because that way none of the power has to go through the MB and heat it up or stress it. That does make some sense to me.

I wouldn't mind going that route and I know that I would just need to hook up the fan to the yellow (12 volt) power wire and one of the black ground wires. But, I also want the fan monitored, and that only happens through the onboard 3 pin connectors.

So, can I split the wires with two going to the 4 wire connectors (y plugs are cheap) and the third to the MB monitoring pin? Which wires on the 3 pin fans are the power and which one goes to which pin on the (A7V in my case) MB?

Does this make sense to anyone? Just wondering.

As I understand it, the RPM monitoring is a make/break to ground. So the rpm wire alone may work. If not the rpm and ground to mother board, then ground and power to the 4 way? Anyone done this. There shouldn't be any ground problem with running the power connector ground and MB fan ground together should there?

DE

 

[jonk]

I'm running a 120mm YSTech off of the PS with the tach lead to the mobo header. This works, but I'm not convinced that the rpm reported is accurate.

 

[markedmundb]

I tried when I ran my Delta. It worked a treat. AFAIK, it's as accurate as running the fan from a 3-pin mobo header.

The red & Black wires are the power (red- +12V, black= 0V) and the yellow/blue is the RPM monitoring.