Good morning. I have just purchased an Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo and I was wondering if it is possible to power its fans from my fan controller. I have a Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus controller and it's currently hooked up to the 120mm Yate Loon that's zip tied onto my graphics card. As for the Twin Turbo, I would have plugged it into the header on the card itself, but it won't fit, and the Twin Turbo has three wires (Red, Black and Green on the three pin and Red, Black, Green and Blue on the attached four pin). My 8600GT only has two pins on it's header, so could I just cut the end off the cable and solder on a three-pin fan connector for use with my fan controller? Any thoughts and help would be appreciated. Stu
Its pretty easy to do this, all voltages off a molex from a PSU are either 12v or 5v. Yellow and black is 12v Read and black is 5v This is for 4 pin molex plugs. Kick in the standards teeth now. 3 pin fan headers are ONLY 12v so the red and black wires supply 12v, with the yellow cable for speed sensing. So if you take the red and black power lines off the fan and splice them together with power lines on a 3 pin connector your good to go!
And the green wire goes where the yellow wire would normally go right? This is good to know, thank you very much
In case anyone was wondering, got it working fine. Nice and quiet at low and still nice and quiet on high. Just need to sleeve this baby and it's ready to go
Just wondering, do you even need the fans for cooling that card. I have the same cooler on my 4850 and the fans never need to start. The cooler is so efficient they are only for emergency really.
That's a good point you have there. I was considering removing the fans and cooling the card passively, but I want to see if I can overclock. I'm not too worried if I can't, but some better cooling for my GPU and RAMs are definatley a good start. I still haven't been able to mount the cooler cause I'm still waiting on the screws for it to arrive, and I need to borrow some Arctic Silver from someone...
Ok the cooler is mounted. Thought I'd share some photos with you. The card with the stock cooler removed: The replacement cooler: The screws (finally ): Some RAMsinks: My Arctic Silver 5 has gone walkabouts, so this Zalman thermal grease which came with my CPU cooler will have to do for now: Smooth application of paste and four RAMsinks, I only have four RAMs: Four mounting screws with washers to prevent short circuits: The cooler mounted: Crappy light here, but the main heatsink just touches the top of the capacitors: Onto my board: Close the side: Some quick cable management: ...And done: That front 120mm Yate Loon intake should feed it more than enough fresh air: Thanks for looking and thanks for everyone's help, including nightic and Burnout21!
They come with thermal adheasive, I forgot to mention... Also thanks Ryan! Want to trade for your 285?
