Fan advise?

[the_electrician]

Ive been getting a sharkoon silent eagle to replace the corsair 120mm fan on my H50. Ive just noticed that the cpu fan header is 4 pin and the silent eagle is 3 pin.
Will it make any difference if i plug the fan into a 3 pin slot on my motherboard as i have no 3/4 pin converters?
Or there is a power lead (4 pin male & female)that came withe the fan which has a male 3pin conecter with a +ve and -ve supply from the power lead. the 3 pin male connecter then has a white wire going to a 3 pin female connecter that i presume plugs into a 3pin slot on the motherboard.
Sorry for the knob question.

 

[Voxination]

3-pin and 4-pin are compatible with each other, you should notice a small bit of plastic on the CPU-Fan header, this is offset slightly so you can use a 3-pin fan if there without putting it over the wrong pins. I currently have a 3-pin fan as my CPU fan, the only difference is I loose PWM control (A method of controlling the speed of the fan)

 

[the_electrician]

thanks for the quick reply.

 

[Voxination]

No worries mate .

 

[CSA]

Ive been pondering that fan, please update this thread once its installed and let us know if it reduces temps and what the noise is like


thanks

 

[setter]

The sharkoon silent eagles are very good fans (theyre all that i use theese days). The 1000 rpm model is pretty quiet but the 2000 rpm version can be a bit loud at full speed, i tend to run mine of a fan controller, had 2 of the 2000's on a TRUE black cooling a q6600 at 3.8ghz temps of 68-68-62-62.