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Will a Y splitter work on my mobo's fan header?

robrulz123
By robrulz123
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Hello all,

I am planning to buy two Coolermaster Sickleflow X's (red led) and a Y splitter as I only have one chassis fan header available. To my knowledge, each of these fans draw 0.35 amps and in total thats .70 amps right? So will my motherboard (Asrock H81M-HDS R2.0) be able to sustain .70 amps from the one chassis fan header through a splitter? 

(I just want to make sure I don't fry my motherboard)

Thank you.

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The manual for you MB doesn't specify this, but I've not heard of a fan header with less than 1A in any modern motherboard. I'm sure you'll be fine.

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Yes, that's fine. That being said, Sickleflows aren't great and I wouldn't recommend them unless you only want cheap led fans. They're either noisy at high rpm or don't perform well at low rpm.

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