I also have questions regarding wiring the fan. It has a 3 pin connector on it, red yellow and black. I would guess that black is obviously ground, and that the red and yellow are for either 12V or 5V, depending how fast I want it to run. Is this right? I only hav a molex connector available to power it. How should I hook it up?
I believe black and red are - and + and yellow is nothing more than the RPM-signal. I've noticed that any fan will keep running without the yellow wire.
EDIT: to answer your question, connect black to black and red to red, cut off yellow as it does nothing (unless you're planning on getting a fan monitor later). Don't worry about voltage or anything as a fan can only spin in 1 direction and overvolting is quite impossible on a molex.
And I thought the 7 in my AMD was alot! Not that it needed them. They all had molex connectors already though, so I just had to daisy chain them. Now to salvage a molex connector from a dead HD....
Ok, so I'm largely done now. I have bolted a small fan to the 5200's heat sink, and crusely wired it to a molex using some small nails as pins. I'v overclocked it a bit, but some fine tuning and further testing will be required to refine my final settings.
Mod guide will be forthcoming, though I'm afraid the pics won't be amazing.
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