Cooling Solutions

[foreveryoung001]

I am Runnign a Duron 1Ghz on a K7ADA Mother Board.  My system is constantly running hot.  I currently have my window open to our Northern Michigan winter to keep my temp down in order to use this machine.  I am going to purchase a better heatsink, but my question lies with the fan.  I see all these monstrous fans available but they all tell me to hook up to the 4-pin plug from my power supply.  Will I lose my ability to monitor my CPu temp if I do this.  A tech guy at Soyo told me if I don't use the 3-pin plug from the mother board, I'll lose all that info.  I was also wondering about these adapters that run the yellow wire back into the 3-pin plug on the mother board.  Is that yellow wire carrying all that vital info?  Any help would be much appreciated.

[Psywar]

First off.. fans.. Buy Delta... they will cool anything..

Heatsink.. I would get a Swiftec MCX462..

 

major 0wnage buddy..

 

the 3pin connector to your motherboard will moniter your fan RPMs and on a 4 pin.. I dont belive it will do that.. Its not the wires that have anything to do with it.. its just the 3pin on the motherboard, that can sense the speeds n crap..

 

and I know I can run the delta fan off the 3 pin on the mobo.. so you should be fine... www.plycon.com has delta fans.. there kinda expensive.. but the 80mm shoot out like 80cfm.. w00t!

 

hope that helps..