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Originally Posted by Italianguy 
Wow this really helps! The 3 pin fan splitters should work for you but the only thing I would be concerned about is will it try to draw too much from one fan port and kill it on you. That's why I'm not sure what to do. Based on what you said I should be able to power the H20 920 pump and its two fans from the CPU_FAN port without worrying about the pump changing speed, but I'm worried it may get too close to the 1A, 12W limit.
I might still be better off letting the pump's USB software control those two fans and connect it to the PSU directly. If I went that route and left the CPU_FAN port empty, its just change a setting in the bios? Nothing else to worry about? And on the other hand keeping the pump on the CPU_FAN line means if the pump dies I'll get some warning about it.
Yeah a fan controller would solve the problem but I'd like to take advantage of the Fan Xpert 2 software that grambo wants to use as well.
Speaking of Fan Xpert 2 that kind of sucks if it really can only use the CPU temp for fan control. The z77-v pro and deluxe have other sensors on the motherboard right? If the Sabertooth has it, they should have been able to mix temps too.
Wow this really helps! The 3 pin fan splitters should work for you but the only thing I would be concerned about is will it try to draw too much from one fan port and kill it on you. That's why I'm not sure what to do. Based on what you said I should be able to power the H20 920 pump and its two fans from the CPU_FAN port without worrying about the pump changing speed, but I'm worried it may get too close to the 1A, 12W limit.
I might still be better off letting the pump's USB software control those two fans and connect it to the PSU directly. If I went that route and left the CPU_FAN port empty, its just change a setting in the bios? Nothing else to worry about? And on the other hand keeping the pump on the CPU_FAN line means if the pump dies I'll get some warning about it.
Yeah a fan controller would solve the problem but I'd like to take advantage of the Fan Xpert 2 software that grambo wants to use as well.
Speaking of Fan Xpert 2 that kind of sucks if it really can only use the CPU temp for fan control. The z77-v pro and deluxe have other sensors on the motherboard right? If the Sabertooth has it, they should have been able to mix temps too.
the only good thing about fan expert 2, is that because it is a service it starts in the background as windows starts (before login in fact) .
i.e got my fans swinging from idle (40%) to 100% over a 10C range on the CPU (as its cpu not core), so it goes from 40% at 40C to 100% at 50C. it actually works reasonably well, especially if you have them ramp quick, and fall away slowly/very slowly (it stops of the 'hunting' you might otherwise get). The only thing it would fail me on is giving more air to the gpu under gpu only load. But thats really rare.
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
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