Help wiring up a fan!

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Heya all,
I managed to salvage a nice fan (foxconn PV123812DSPF) out of one of the workstations here at work but I am unsure of how I will need to wire it up!

the fan has an odd 5 pin connector I have never seen before in a PC, only 4 pins are wired, it has red black yellow and blue, am I right in thinking that this is 12v, ground, RPM sensor and PWM?

if so can I just user the red black and yellow to wire it up to a 3 pin fan plug?

if so then it would make an awesome system fan as it can push out up to 150CFM at full blast :)

I did notice its rated at 0.9A, is this unsafe for running off a fan header on the motherboard?
 
I have found this pinout which matches it, so it all looks good :)

fished it out the dual fan assembly on the front of a Dell T3500 (bearing had gone in 1 and del replaced the whole thing), also got 8 rubber fan mounts from it :)

is your motherboard from a Dell by any chance?
 
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