what wire is what...

fat-600 · 16 Jan 2008 at 21:11

i want to make my fan on my heatsink work at native speed, dont know what that is, and i have had a look in the BIOS to do that and i cant make sence,
anyways, i wanna cut one of the wires that runs to the fan into the mobo so that it is not controled by the BIOS or anything, so back to the qestion, what wire do i cut, the yellow one or the blue one (cos i know that the red, black is for power)

Skeeter · 16 Jan 2008 at 21:57

get a 3pin mobo connector to 4pin molex adapter. Then it will be powered directly from the PSU at full speed.

dr. sarf · 16 Jan 2008 at 22:00

Just disable fan speed control in the BIOS.
Don't go cutting wires.

AndyOcUK · 16 Jan 2008 at 22:01

dr. sarf said:
Just disable fan speed control in the BIOS.
Don't go cutting wires.

But if you must, the yellow one is the speed sensor wire.

fat-600 · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:23

thanks very much andyocuk!

Skeeter · 17 Jan 2008 at 01:03

No, dont cut wires!

Bare wires are bad at the best of times. If its your CPU fan then just go into bios and disable fan control, it will therefore run at full speed.