Powering an Arctic Cooler?

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Slightly unusual problem here.

A mate fitted an Arctic Cooler to his graphics card a couple of months ago. Everything was fine until the other day when the fan stopped running, and after testing it looks like the fan header on the card is dead and no longer supplying power for some reason.

Apart from this the card is working perfectly, but without the fan running the temperatures might soon become a problem.

Unfortunately I don't think an RMA can be done on the card as it's coming up to 2 years old.

I just wondered if anyone has found another way to supply power to an Arctic Cooler (eg. some kind of adaptor to a 3 or 4 pin connector?).

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[PureAppleJuice]

Could just split the wires from a 3 pin fan adaptor and attach them to the AC

 

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Thanks, that would certainly work but I was wondering first if there was tidy way of doing it without having to cut and splice wires together?

 

[Legionaire68]

Had similar problem with an Asus x800xt, the fan header was really small on card.
In the end I got a molex to 3 pin fan lead and cut the red and black pins out of the plastic housing and cut them back a little to fit then pushed them into the correct pin holes in the cooler plastic header and put some electrical tape round no need for splicing wires.
Worked fine I even took the cooler off and sold on ebay as the cooler connector was not damaged.

 

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Thanks Guys, I'll pass on the suggestions and see if we can rig something up hopefully without damaging the wiring on the Arctic Cooler