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Installing akasa vortexx neo

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I'm going to install this to my 4870 as soon as I receive my cpu cooler this week and will use the TX-2 bundled with the cpu cooler instead of the white paste from the akasa. That's gotta be better I imagine? There's a 3 pin motherboard plug with the akasa and a 4 pin molex adaptor. Should I use the molex to power supply to power the akasa fan, or should I plug it into the only remaining motherboard header I have which is the pwr fan header?
 
I really doesn't matter. It will run at full speed all the time though probably.

I have mine always plugged into the motherboard and not had any problems. :)
 
That's good enough answer for me. ;) Because I was wondering if someone was going to say not to use the pwr fan header, as I thought it was only meant for the psu. Cheers.
 
if you want to be able to control the speed of the fan (for noise purposes) then maybe get a fan controller and attach it to that?
 
Can I ask, does your cooler have cracks on the plastic screw thread on the plastic housing (on the rear round bit) - one also where the shroud meets the metal base.

It's like it's been over tightened. This has been on my original Neo and the replacment RMA I got this morning.
 
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