Scythe ninja fan help

Ugiol · 7 Aug 2006 at 18:40

Hey,

I have just installed my scythe ninja. However I have only just noticed that the cable from the fan is 3pin and the cpu fan on the motherboard is 4 pin. Now my power supply has a cable for extra fans in which i can plug the 3 pin into and then the cable into a 4 pin directly to the power supply. Is this ok or is it essental that i plug the fan into the cpu cooler thing on the motherboard.

Thanks.

Nazca · 7 Aug 2006 at 19:09

It'll be OK. You may get CPU fan error messages, but you can ignore it, as long as the fan is working

Ugiol · 7 Aug 2006 at 19:16

Ok cheers, it'll get my system up and going anyway until i can buy a convertor tomorrow. Cheers mate

squiffy · 7 Aug 2006 at 19:19

I plugged the Ninja fan directly to the motherboard, it's not a high RPM type so should be ok. So I have fan monitoring and speed control.

Ugiol · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:17

Got her running. 20 degrees idle, and 25 full load. Very happy.

squiffy · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:27

That seems a bit low, what's your ambiant room temp? CPU?

woodsup · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:37

This isnt on a DS4 is it?

Ugiol · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:39

yeah a ds4, room temperature about 18-20 deg.

When i was running celeron 326, with stock cooler it was at around 27 idle and 40 full load.

woodsup · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:51

Yeah, Im running an overclocked 6300 on a DS4 and the bios thinks its running at 25C load :rolleyes:

Coretemp puts it at about 45 which I think is about right. I'd reccomend using that