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Sampsy

Sampsy

Sampsy

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Currently building my recently ordered rig:

This minus the fans, in a white 600t

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Currently the PSU is out of stock, so I am waiting on that. However I have the HDD, SSD & Optical in the case, albeit not connected yet. The Mobo, Ram, CPU, H60 are all installed, hopefully correctly.

Now, the H60 instructions said to put the fans on the rad into the CPU_FAN slot and the pump into any other fan header. So currently the rad fan in is CPU_FAN1 (the 4pin, there is another 3pin cpu fan) and the pump is in CHA_FAN2 (Chassis fan 2?). I assume this is correct?


I also have a free Apache black fan with the H60. Should I put this on the radiator in push/pull? If I were to do so, what would I put the fan connector into? It has a 4pin connector and won't fit on the other 3pin CPU fan. Furthermore, what would I attach it to the radiator with? I'm not sure the supplied rubber connectors will work.
 
the pump needs to be connected to anything that is set to 100% all the time. a lot of people are getting molex adaptors to run this off, but any of the motherboards fans sockets will be ok aslong as the bios runs it at 100% all the time.
 
The akasa fan is meant to be a replacement, mostly a noise improvement.

You can try push-pull, you will need screws to fix it to the radiator. Push-pull is only worth a few degrees.

The chassis fan header should be 3 pin adaptor and with a constant 12 volts. To be sure, you can use a molex adapter, or check in the bios for fan profiles, but I don't think these fans would be voltage controlled.

The H60 fan plugged into the CPU fan socket will be PWM controlled by CPU temp, which is what you want.

Putting the other H60 fan into a 3 pin header would mean it will be always on 100% speed. Not something you'd want really, especially the Corsair fan, which is a bit loud :) And in push pull, you'd want the fans to be spinning at relatively similar speed.

The Asus Z68 Pro boards has two CPU fan headers, I don't think the Asrock has something similar, but you can try this :



Only for the case and cooler fan, not suitable for the pump, which again should remain on a molex or chassis fan header that isn't voltage controlled (which I don't tihnk they are but double check in BIOS).
 
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Well, I've swapped over the H60 fan with the Akasa black for now, but I still don't have any way to attach the old fan to the rad, but I suppose I can just leave that for now anyway.

More Questions:
1. I have found two SATA power cables with the motherboard and it says they connect the PSU to the SATA device. However I need power cables for the SSD, HDD and Optical drive, meaning I am one short. So will more be provided with the PSU?

2. I have no idea if I have connected the system panel header wires correctly. The power LEDs were single labeled cables so I am sure they are correct, but the power button, HDD LED and Reset switch wires have two pin slots each, and each slot is not labeled individually. Currently they are plugged in with the text facing the bottom of the board, but for all I know they are the wrong way around? How am i supposed to know which slot is which, it was not stated in the docs for the case.
 
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1. I can't be absolutely sure but I would assume they would supply the necessary cables to connect those components.

2. Each of the 2 pin connectors should be labelled. (HD, power, reset) etc. The motherboard manual should indicate which pins go where.

Mine were labelled and they were also colour coded. But I took a picture on my phone to memorize exactly how they went in.

I guess hindsight is great once you can't go back...
 
PrChaos said:
1. I can't be absolutely sure but I would assume they would supply the necessary cables to connect those components.

2. Each of the 2 pin connectors should be labelled. (HD, power, reset) etc. The motherboard manual should indicate which pins go where.

Mine were labelled and they were also colour coded. But I took a picture on my phone to memorize exactly how they went in.

I guess hindsight is great once you can't go back...
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The 2 pin connectors are labelled as such, but both holes use the same label, Power SW for example. However in the manual it shows one pin is for PWRBTN and the one adjacent is for GND (ground I presume). How do I know if I have plugged the GND pin into the PWRBTN header, and visa versa.

I can grab a photo if it helps.
 
Well I don't really know what else to tell you other than to try putting one in at a time. PWRBTN first and of course if it doesnt turn on... Switch it over and try again.
 
I was just thinking that, if the power button is the wrong way around it just won't turn on, however the others (reset, hdd indicator) require it to be on to tell if it is working. If they are the wrong way around, will it cause any damage?

Edit: I hadn't noticed due to the case being black, and the headers being black but there is a small molded triangle on the headers on one of the pins for all the two pin headers. I presume this indicates +ve for the LEDs and the pin which is not NOT the GND on the power and reset buttons.
 
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I shouldn't think so. The only one I'm not too sure about is the GND pin you spoke of. I recently installed a Corsair H60 in my case and needed to take the motherboard out. I took a picture on my phone to memorize the pin locations but one of them is in the wrong slot. (HDD indicator)

The PC still works fine but the blue LED light doesn't flash to indicate hard drive activity, that's all.

I'm also too lazy to take the side off and plug it in the correct pin slot on my motherboard :D
 
Right, well I think they are the right way around now.

The last thing I can think of (right now) is what I need to do once the PSU arrives. It looks like I have two power connectors on the MB from it, two on the 5830 and one SATA power connector for the SSD, HDD and Optical to plug in, which shouldn't be a problem. However what things do I need to sort out in the BIOS before / after I install the O/S. I know I need to set the Sata mode(?) to AHCI, check the system time & date are correct and set the boot order, but I don't know about anything else (OC can go after everything is finished).

Also, what are all the drivers I must install, as I may well forget something here; there seem to be a ton of drivers & programs for the SSD that I will need.
 
I'm afraid I don't know too much about configuring a new BIOS because I've never done it. The best suggestion I have is that you ensure the first boot device is your hard drive (if you already have an OS installed) otherwise boot from another device (CD, USB, external hard drive, etc.) to begin formatting and installing a new OS.

Consulting your motherboard manual should help you with configuring the BIOS.

As for the drivers... If you're talking about chipset drivers such as sound, display etc then they will most likely be on the motherboard driver disc that came with your motherboard. Beyond that, I have no idea.
 
Ok, well all the parts have arrived & been installed, and it booted straight into BIOS. I have set SATA mode to AHCI, but there is also a Marvell SATA3 Operation mode set to IDE, I think this is correct but I am unsure.
 
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