Gigabyte AORUS ELITE B850 - aio install help

adamCCC

adamCCC

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Hi

Hoping someone can help in regards to which headers to plug the aio cables into.

My aio is the lian li galahad 2 360 performance lite. Motherboard is gigabyte AORUS ELITE WIFI7

There's 3 cables:
1 cable coming from the fans
2 coming from the pump block - one for the pump and one for rgb.

For the actual radiator fans, my case has a fan hub so I'm pretty sure I can plug this in here? The fan hub connects via 1 cable to sys-fan1 currently.

The rbg header is fine.

I just don't know where to connect the pump cable to, watched tonnes of reviews, reddit and even chat gpt/Claude giving me conflicting advice!

The options are:

CPU-OPT
CPU-FAN
and less popular FAN4-PUMP

Please someone advise on where these final cables go!!

Case if Asus proart pa602, no additional fans installed, the 3 pre installed all coming from the fan hub currently.

Thank you!!

Adam
 
You can really plug it in to any but personally if its a pump and one header is marked pump...
 
Gray2233 said:
Fan to CPU-FAN
Pump to FAN4-Pump

RGB depends on what type you have, be careful there as plugging the RGB into the wrong header can actually damage them. Your case may have an RGB hub built in that could be used also, but you'll need to double check that.

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/ku117m/a_beginners_guide_to_rgb_in_2021/
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Thanks.

Case doesn't have an RGB hub, just a fan hub.

Could you explain why the radiator fans goto Cpu fan and not the fan hub?
And why the pump goes to FAN4-Pump and not the others?

If you don't mind, just for my own sanity as I've read so many differering answers!
 
adamCCC said:
Thanks.

Case doesn't have an RGB hub, just a fan hub.

Could you explain why the radiator fans goto Cpu fan and not the fan hub?
And why the pump goes to FAN4-Pump and not the others?

If you don't mind, just for my own sanity as I've read so many differering answers!
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The CPU-FAN header allows the motherboard bios to easily alter fan speeds on the fly while monitoring CPU temperatures, helps keep things as cool and quiet as possible.

Depending on how aggressive the default settings are, you may want to play about in the bios to set a fan curve.

Pump headers should supply more power than other fan headers from what I remember, which might be necessary for the pump to run optimally.
 
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adamCCC said:
Thanks.

Case doesn't have an RGB hub, just a fan hub.

Could you explain why the radiator fans goto Cpu fan and not the fan hub?
And why the pump goes to FAN4-Pump and not the others?

If you don't mind, just for my own sanity as I've read so many differering answers!
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the fan header that is called "cpu fan" is usually the one thats attached to the cpu cooler
the cpu cooler is usually either a air cooled tower with a fan[or fans]
or its a radiator with..... yep fans
so it is in fact the cpu cooler so the fans on your radiator are the same as the ones on my aircooling tower as far as the job they do
which is get airflow through the cooling medium whether thas a radiator or a heatsink on a tower air cooler
its the effective equivelant thing
it is the cpu fan so to speak in this scenario
so thats why in general and i mean that as in usual practice this would be connected to cpu fan
thats the normal convention as far as i understand it lol
 
Slight problem.. The cable is really struggling to reach FAN4_PUMP, with the Gpu installed it will be touch and go.

The manual for the mobo gives an almost identical description for FAN4_PUMP and CPU_OPT.

CPU_OPT actually says (CPU Fan/Water cooling pump header)

FAN4_PUMP (system fan/water cooling pump header)
 
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