Si-128 fan

[BizaroStormy]

I am going to be making a new system soon and have decided to use a thermalright SI-128 to cool my E6600 cpu and was going to use a AeroCool XtremeTurbine-Silver 120mm fan for its high CFM rating and its shiney leds.

I was wondering if it would be safe for my MB "EVGA 680i" to plug it directly into the cpu heatsink fan power conector or do i need to run it directly off my power supply? also if you have any sugestions about a better heatsink or fan I would greately appriciate them

[kingdingeling]

no, it's fine to run it off the mainboard header. However, I would advise you to choose a different fan, as the Aerocool Turbines tend to be quite loud. If you don't really care about the noise, that's not an issue, but if you want a silence PC, the ExtremeTurbines are not for you.

[romeo55]

I am going to be making a new system soon and have decided to use a thermalright SI-128 to cool my E6600 cpu and was going to use a AeroCool XtremeTurbine-Silver 120mm fan for its high CFM rating and its shiney leds.

I was wondering if it would be safe for my MB "EVGA 680i" to plug it directly into the cpu heatsink fan power conector or do i need to run it directly off my power supply? also if you have any sugestions about a better heatsink or fan I would greately appriciate them

 

Try not to go overboard on powering fans. Most motherboards will only support so much current on internal headers, so don't go splitting off 8 fans from the motherboard's fan header.

 

But yes it should be fine for most normal fans/setups.

Edited May 7, 2007 by The Unforgivin

[BizaroStormy]

Im going to be using headphones so I dont really care about the noise.

Thanks for the info on fan