3 pin cpu on a four pin mainboard

turbotoes · 12 Jun 2007 at 20:23

Silly question time, I've gotta scythe ninja rev b winging its way to me for my E6600, with an xtra fan, neither fan as far as I know has a four pin plug (like *** the stock intel's got) is this going to cause me problems? my P5K deluxe has plenty of other three pin headers, but is it gonna have a dicky fit because it thinks there is no cpu fan attached? ( I'm asking because I did, have back in the mists of time an MSI board that plain would not boot without a fan on the cpu header!!)
thanks

turbotoes

eg_esi · 12 Jun 2007 at 20:30

no,youll be fine.had the same on my bad axe and all was well.

chaparral · 12 Jun 2007 at 22:34

The 4 pin PWN fan header on your motherboard should be able to take a 3 pin fan as well...

On my last two motherboards i have used 3 pin fans in the 4 pin PWM motherboard headers

Teaf · 12 Jun 2007 at 22:51

The 4 pin PWN fan header on your motherboard should be able to take a 3 pin fan as well...

Yep, got my Zalman VF900 with it's 3 pin socket plugged into a 4 pin socket on the motherboard, works like a charm.

mp260767 · 12 Jun 2007 at 22:53

as mentioned the 3 pin will fit the 4 pin just match it up to the slot.

turbotoes · 13 Jun 2007 at 08:04

That's cool, thanks guys. When the ninja arrives I may finally get to overclock this thing a bit

turbotoes

BFG_9000 · 13 Jun 2007 at 09:35

turbotoes said:
Silly question time, I've gotta scythe ninja rev b winging its way to me for my E6600, with an xtra fan, neither fan as far as I know has a four pin plug (like *** the stock intel's got) is this going to cause me problems? my P5K deluxe has plenty of other three pin headers, but is it gonna have a dicky fit because it thinks there is no cpu fan attached? ( I'm asking because I did, have back in the mists of time an MSI board that plain would not boot without a fan on the cpu header!!)
thanks

turbotoes

Yep!! Silly question time... :rolleyes:

mp260767 · 13 Jun 2007 at 13:18

BFG_9000 said:
Yep!! Silly question time...

Helpful response there nice one :rolleyes:

just so ya know turbotoes, the ninja can run passive just needs the cpu fan check (usually lowest rpm etc) disabled so it doesnt check.

TheKnat · 13 Jun 2007 at 13:22

You shouldn't even need to plug the fan into the motherboard as most have the option to turn off the CPU fan warning. If you want to control your fans speed and either use a controller or just plug them into the PSU, you need to be able to disable it really.

turbotoes · 13 Jun 2007 at 13:24

mp260767: thanks but I don't think in passive mode it's quite going to do the job I want

in fact Im going to try it with two fans an see what difference that makes

Don't you just love people who want to ramp up their post count by making cracks though

turbotoes