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walden_emrys
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Alright, so I'm a noob/ done building for today and severly disappointed. I put in the h80 from corsair to do my first boot (build custom loop after I'm sure everything is working) and I test it by itself and it works. I put it on the case and pluged the molex in and the molex pins for the h80 disconnected from the plastic housing. What do I do now? Is there a way to fix the pins? Or do I just count my losses and start building my custom loop and hope nothing fails requiring me to take it apart?
The molex pins came out of the molex conector casing? Just get a pinning tool and repair them.

This should help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7J_0fS2KU

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Alright' date=' so I'm in the process of doing my first boot on the rig and I've run into a problem. There is an 8 pin cpu power connector and a four pin on the motherboard. My power supply didn't come with a four pin connector, only an eight pin. What effect will this have on my motherboard? I know you only have to plug the 8 pin in, but will I still be able to overclock? Please help as soon as possible.[/quote']

Sorry it took me a while to reply..

Anyway as I understand it you have a motherboard that takes a 4in auxiliary power but the PSU only offers an 8 pin? This is on the top left of the board I assume? Just put the 4 pins that match in if you can. It's strange for the PSU not to offer a 4 pin..

I haven't seen any four pin connectors with the 1200i, I've seen two 8 pin though. I also don't see an additional port for memory, I may just be overlooking it though. I'm not trying to go for huge overclocking, about 4.4-4.6 ghz. Thats all. (oh and thanks windspeed36, you're the only person consistently answering these questions, appreciated.)
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Alright' date=' so I'm in the process of doing my first boot on the rig and I've run into a problem. There is an 8 pin cpu power connector and a four pin on the motherboard. My power supply didn't come with a four pin connector, only an eight pin. What effect will this have on my motherboard? I know you only have to plug the 8 pin in, but will I still be able to overclock? Please help as soon as possible.[/quote']

Sorry it took me a while to reply..

Anyway as I understand it you have a motherboard that takes a 4in auxiliary power but the PSU only offers an 8 pin? This is on the top left of the board I assume? Just put the 4 pins that match in if you can. It's strange for the PSU not to offer a 4 pin..

No problem - it's what I'm here for. There's the 6pin just behind the audio I/O on the board. Put both 8 pins in if you can, otherwise I wouldn't get too worried.
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Alright, so I'm a noob/ done building for today and severly disappointed. I put in the h80 from corsair to do my first boot (build custom loop after I'm sure everything is working) and I test it by itself and it works. I put it on the case and pluged the molex in and the molex pins for the h80 disconnected from the plastic housing. What do I do now? Is there a way to fix the pins? Or do I just count my losses and start building my custom loop and hope nothing fails requiring me to take it apart?
Alright, I ordered a pinning tool. The one that you were referring to is the male/female molex tool and not the pliers right? Anyway, the molex tool should arrive in a few days.
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Alright, so I'm a noob/ done building for today and severly disappointed. I put in the h80 from corsair to do my first boot (build custom loop after I'm sure everything is working) and I test it by itself and it works. I put it on the case and pluged the molex in and the molex pins for the h80 disconnected from the plastic housing. What do I do now? Is there a way to fix the pins? Or do I just count my losses and start building my custom loop and hope nothing fails requiring me to take it apart?
Yeah the molex tool :)
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Alright, so I'm a noob/ done building for today and severly disappointed. I put in the h80 from corsair to do my first boot (build custom loop after I'm sure everything is working) and I test it by itself and it works. I put it on the case and pluged the molex in and the molex pins for the h80 disconnected from the plastic housing. What do I do now? Is there a way to fix the pins? Or do I just count my losses and start building my custom loop and hope nothing fails requiring me to take it apart?
I started to freak out after watching the video because I thought that I might have broken off the pins on the molex connectors, so I went to double check and they're there. I still don't know how to reconnect them to the plastic housing though cause in the video that you linked me to Linus only showed how to remove them.
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Alright, so I'm a noob/ done building for today and severly disappointed. I put in the h80 from corsair to do my first boot (build custom loop after I'm sure everything is working) and I test it by itself and it works. I put it on the case and pluged the molex in and the molex pins for the h80 disconnected from the plastic housing. What do I do now? Is there a way to fix the pins? Or do I just count my losses and start building my custom loop and hope nothing fails requiring me to take it apart?
From memory they'll just slide back in - they're a one way sort of catch.
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Alright, I tried to fix the molex pins but the connectors that catch to plastic housing fell off (and one might still be in my case, though I can't find it). Should I just buy a new h80 to make sure my system is running right or should I build my custom water loop and hope nothing is faulty?

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Also, do you need to clean your water cooling equipment before you install for the first time or no? I've heard that you need to clean the rad, but what about the other parts?
Personally I don't know so I'll just say that personally I would run distilled water through the system first in a one way cycle to make sure there isn't any resin or something in there that shouldn't be. I am yet to do a full custom loop so that's just my personal advice and what i'd do - hopefully someone else who has done a custom loop can give you a definite answer :)
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I've decided just to start on the custom loop instead of spend another hundred bucks just to test the system. I ordered some plasticizer free tygon tubing, but it doesn't seem to be very clear. Actually it seems pretty cloudy to be honest, should I buy other tubing or just stick with this and see how the liquid looks like in it? I believe that the tubing I got was Tygon 2075, but the one that is on Mayhems Coolant site (the company I bought coolant from) is Tygon E-1000. Anyone have any experience with that tubing?

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