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[ThrashZone]

Yea I believe that is why the guy in the youtube video said to not use the silly corsair link crapware
Just plug the two fans to the cpu ports and be done with it
Control all of the fans in One place set to High... and done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TB5MgI16I8

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...Then there`s the cpu option fan header, I have to find out exactly what that one is for...

It's for when you have more than one fan on a CPU cooler. You connect the second fan there. If using a AIO sealed water cooling system, you often can connect the radiator fan and water block/pump to the CPU and opt. CPU fan ports.

 

[carwiz]

Be careful stacking fans/pump off the CPU fan header. There's a current limit on all the Motherboard fan headers. IIRC, mine is 2.0A on the CPU and 1.5A on the other two (front/rear). It should be documented in your MB manual. I've seen some as low as 300mA (.3A). Exceeding the current limit can damage the output driver circuit on the MB.

 

[Boozad]

I've found it best just to connect the rad fans to the pump via the adaptor cables. It's what it's there for, it controls the fans just fine and leaves the motherboard alone.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Be careful stacking fans/pump off the CPU fan header. There's a current limit on all the Motherboard fan headers. IIRC, mine is 2.0A on the CPU and 1.5A on the other two (front/rear). It should be documented in your MB manual. I've seen some as low as 300mA (.3A). Exceeding the current limit can damage the output driver circuit on the MB.

That's why many MOBOs, such as this one, have more the one CPU fan header. You can easily run two fans off them, one off each header (more if the fans' total current draw is less than 1A). Later high end ASUS MOBOs have fan headers that are rated for 1A. My ASUS P9X79 WS is a couple, three generations back and all its fan headers are rated for 1A each.

 

[ThrashZone]

Thanks all,
I routed the back top exhaust fan to the bottom center along with the 2 front fans that are next to it,

The top cpu ports I'm only using 2 of them,

 

[Boozad]

I haven't hooked up the Corsair Link Mike, the cooler works perfectly well without it. Fan speeds increase as the CPU gets hotter, there's no nee for the bloatware unless you want to control the fans yourself.

 

[ThrashZone]

Be careful stacking fans/pump off the CPU fan header. There's a current limit on all the Motherboard fan headers. IIRC, mine is 2.0A on the CPU and 1.5A on the other two (front/rear). It should be documented in your MB manual. I've seen some as low as 300mA (.3A). Exceeding the current limit can damage the output driver circuit on the MB.

That's why many MOBOs, such as this one, have more the one CPU fan header. You can easily run two fans off them, one off each header (more if the fans' total current draw is less than 1A). Later high end ASUS MOBOs have fan headers that are rated for 1A. My ASUS P9X79 WS is a couple, three generations back and all its fan headers are rated for 1A each.

Yep all are 1A even the assist fans
Pretty much why I asked what is the difference in assist and channel

Everything I've watched so far on youtube they just hook the top/ back fan to the cpu port plus anything else they have for an actual air cooler
But it's cool and the wire just reached to the bottom so all is good

Oddly the corsair fan wires both have four wire "male" the sp140's only have 3 "female" so the fans are short 1 terminal :/
I guess I'll have to wrap the bare lead with tape so it doesn't touch anything ?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Look on the Corsair forums and you will see a lot of people have had problems with Corsair Link. That was one reason why I bought an AX760 instead of an AX760i.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...I guess I'll have to wrap the bare lead with tape so it doesn't touch anything ?

My OCD would never settle for that. Get a piece of heat shrink, let it overhang the end of the wire, shrink it, then put a drop of superglue in the hollow end and pinch it shut with a pair of pliers until the glue sets.

 

[ThrashZone]

Looked at the stock fans that came with the liquid cooler and they are four wire also :/
Might have an issue if the sp140's only have 3 wires ?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

If you run your three pin fans on four pin headers that are set to run PWM, they will run full blast. I don't know if you can set individual fan headers to either voltage or PWM control or if you have to do it for the entire board. My P9X79 has four pin headers but I have to set a jumper to enable either PWM or voltage control. The jumper setting applies to all the fan headers on the board. Since your board is newer than mine, it may have better control over the headers than mine does (and I'm too lazy to look it up; it should be in your gasp manual).

 

[ThrashZone]

Look on the Corsair forums and you will see a lot of people have had problems with Corsair Link. That was one reason why I bought an AX760 instead of an AX760i.

Yea I might have to watch the youtube vid again about hooking it up without corsair link :/
Or put the stock fans on it ?
I'll flip a coin

 

[Boozad]

The stock fans are noisy as hell. Put the SP fans on and connect them to the pump, let the pump control the fans. Job done.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yea well the corsair manual is a joke
The asus manual uses vague terms and doesn't apply or is not specific to corsair so it's easily as useless when you throw corsair in the way

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Try going to the Corsair Forums to see if anyone there might be able to help you.

 

[ThrashZone]

The stock fans are noisy as hell. Put the SP fans on and connect them to the pump, let the pump control the fans. Job done.

That is the way it's hooked up now
Not sure if it will have a running issue lacking one lead though Brian's using the stock fans
You aren't so did you have an extra male lead coming off the corsair to sp120 fan connection Gav ?

 

[Boozad]

Each fan should have a lead coming off it, they connect up to an adaptor cable (one per lead) and the adaptors connect to the pump. There shouldn't be any extra leads at all Mike. The unit is modular, there are no hard wired cables coming off it.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yea but picture the mother board ports for the fans,
It will adapt to four or three pin fans,
Now the corsair wire for the fan is the same way it has four pins
The ps140 has three pins one pin just like the mobo will not be used

Question to you was Gav did you have a extra pin left over from the corsair fan plug
Your sp120 should be the same wiring 3 pin to corsair four pin.

 

[Boozad]

Oh an extra pin? Yeah the SP120s I used are three pin so I had a pin left over, that's not a problem Mike, the adaptor cables have a leading edge on them to make sure you connect three pin connectors up correctly. I may be doing some cable management over the weekend so if I do I'll get some photos for you.