What do you plug stuff into?

[jayctech]

This topic is like 4 months overdue now.

What headers do you typically plug the radiator and fans of an AIO into on a mobo?

 

When I first did it, I put the radiator header into where the stock cooler was originally plugged in and the fans into a random other one. Issue with that was the mobo would read (and treat) the pump as a fan on the cpu and vary the "speed" (no clue what that means since it was using the same sorta figures as a fan) and I read online the pump should be at full speed all the time.

So I changed them round so now the pump is at full all the time and if the CPU gets hotter it'll spin the radiator fans instead.

 

Was this the right thing to do? It's been like 4 months and the computer hasn't broken yet so...

[AlwaysFSX]

Not my CPU fan --> fan hub in my case

[TheKDub]

I plug the fans of all my fans and such directly into the mobo.

[legopc]

i plug my pump into my molex to fan convertor and the fans just on the mobo

[DeViLzzz]

I plug stuff into electrical wall sockets.  It is amazing when electricity comes out and runs stuff.  On my home planet we don't ... oops!