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GA-X58A-UD7 Mother Board Fan headers

GA-X58A-UD7 Mother Board Fan headers
« on: November 23, 2010, 04:00:45 pm »
Hello All
As a new kid on the block, I am building a rig with a GA-X58A-UD7 Mother Board and Intel i7 980-X +  12 Gig Dominator ddr3 ram with fans.
the case that I am using is a Coolermaster 942.
I have the CPU to the CPU header and the Dominator Fans to the Sys fan 1/PWR Fan on the MB
My Question is
Which case fan should I connect to  Sys fan 2 that has Sense and speed control, and what other fans could or should I connect to these headers or not.?
Thanking you all in appreciation if you can help me with this ** Inexperienced Beginner's problem**
Coolermaster HAF 942 full tower case, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 - i7 980x, 12Gb Corsair Dominator 2000 RAM, 2x 450GB Western Digital VelociRaptors SATA6 in RAID 0 , EVGA gtx 470 Graphics, PSU Corsair HX1000
**Endless hours of Fun as a first build**

Dark Mantis

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Re: GA-X58A-UD7 Mother Board Fan headers
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2010, 04:34:59 pm »
Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte UK Forum.

Well it is of course a matter of persona; choice which fans to connect to where but depending on the fans I would ideally recommend using a fan controller like the Lamptron FCT which is due out shortly or one of the other makes that are similar.

The other option is to connect the fans directly to the PSU. Of course that way you lose the ability to turn them down but you do get the full cooling spec from them.

The thing is some of the larger fans nowadays draw a fair amount ot power and it is not unheard of for the motherboard headers to burn out.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: GA-X58A-UD7 Mother Board Fan headers
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2010, 11:32:15 pm »
Many Thanks Dark Mantis

I will now connect the fans to the PSU and connect a fan controller as recomended.  As with all the Fans going flat out word turn the case into a giant Vacum cleaner ?

So little time, so much to learn

Thanking you in appreciation
Coolermaster HAF 942 full tower case, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 - i7 980x, 12Gb Corsair Dominator 2000 RAM, 2x 450GB Western Digital VelociRaptors SATA6 in RAID 0 , EVGA gtx 470 Graphics, PSU Corsair HX1000
**Endless hours of Fun as a first build**

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Re: GA-X58A-UD7 Mother Board Fan headers
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2010, 10:43:46 am »
You are very welcome and if you have any more questions you know where we are.  ;)
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy