Rather than discard a perfectly good pc that the grandkids are using, I decided to quieten it down a bit then maybe try a bit of overclocking. The motherboard is an ASUS K8N-E with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ socket 754 processor. First, cool down and quieten the processor fan noise. First problem!! I searched and came up with what was supposed to be the best cooler for that chip, the Arctic Cooling (AC-FRZ-64P) Freezer64 Pro Socket 754 CPU Cooler with Heat pipe cooling. Installed it easily but never even considered checking the pin connections. This cooler has a 4 pin socket but the motherboard only has a 3pin cpu connector. I wanted to instal it with a speed controller such as the Zalman Fan Mate, however this will only accept 3pin connections. I could just connect to the mb and enable the smart fan (or whatever its called) in the bios. I have taken the connector off the old removed fan but which wires should go where and which one do I leave out ? Tried looking for the fan wiring diag with no success. Any of you knowledgable guys able to offer a suggestion please? Thanks
4 into 3 doesn't go - or will it?
- Thread starter oldbrit
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Hi there :wavey:
I'm guessing you mean you have a 4 pin connector like in the picture below, so if you want to stick in it the 3 pin connector you've taken off of the old fan, put them into the 3 pin connector in the exact same way, minus the blue/spare right hand cable. I think that should do the trick
For the rewiring, follow this image and it should be fine, going from yellow to red to black from the left with the knotches facing upwards
I'm guessing you mean you have a 4 pin connector like in the picture below, so if you want to stick in it the 3 pin connector you've taken off of the old fan, put them into the 3 pin connector in the exact same way, minus the blue/spare right hand cable. I think that should do the trick
For the rewiring, follow this image and it should be fine, going from yellow to red to black from the left with the knotches facing upwards
Allargando
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My asus board only has 3-pin connectors, but my freezer64 pro uses a 4-pin connector.
its been happily running for about 2 or 3 months now (just connect the 4pin into your 3-pin as mentioned before)
that 4th pin is for fan speed control (3rd pin is for rpm monitoring,) useful if you have a board that supports pwm...but not needed for operation
its been happily running for about 2 or 3 months now (just connect the 4pin into your 3-pin as mentioned before)
that 4th pin is for fan speed control (3rd pin is for rpm monitoring,) useful if you have a board that supports pwm...but not needed for operation
Thanks guys. I've just connected it as Allargando did with his system. I'm just a finicky old fa*t that requires things to be as they should. The freezer64 pro hasnt cooled the system down any more (not that it really needed it - noise was the main reason for using it) but what it has done is the fan doesnt start up until the cpu temp reaches 35 degrees and when it does, its inaudible so it works. I can't find any way in the bios to bring the threshold of the cpu down to allow the fan to start ealier plus I get the warning on system start that the cpu fan is faulty and have to press F1.
This is going to be costly because now I can tell just how much noise the PSU fan is making and being a finicky old fa*t, will have to replace that as well. Looking at the Seasonic S12 II 500watt (methinks that maybe it would have been wiser to have built a new system - oh well, at least when that time comes we will have some good kit to start off with. Perhaps now I will play around with attempting to do a little overclocking, just to dip my toes as the saying goes!
Again, many thanks for your guidance.
This is going to be costly because now I can tell just how much noise the PSU fan is making and being a finicky old fa*t, will have to replace that as well. Looking at the Seasonic S12 II 500watt (methinks that maybe it would have been wiser to have built a new system - oh well, at least when that time comes we will have some good kit to start off with. Perhaps now I will play around with attempting to do a little overclocking, just to dip my toes as the saying goes!
Again, many thanks for your guidance.
