I just got done putting on my 2 80-120 adapaters and mounting the fans on them.

Now for the idiot part. The top fan went on fine. It has a pretty blue LED and sitting on teh adpater it looks cool. I bought the same fan for teh back of the case. I say to myself "hey, I don't need the LEDs on this fan so let me CUT the wires for the LEDs. All I need is this little plug on to the motherboard.

Well guess what. I just found out what you knew already. The molex connector I cut off was for the LED AND fan. Now I know it too. I could call newegg and order a new fan for $15 plus shipping or I can try to splice the wires. Guess which one I did. Hey, it's the back of the case. No one will see it. What's a little electrical tape between friends.

Please don't point and make fun of me.

Both fans are working nicely and the temp of the case is down about ~10C with no apps (45C) and the fans are pretty quiet.

Hope you enjoyed your laugh for the night.

You could solder them and then use heatshrink to make it not look so ghetto. A nice sleeve job never hurt anyone...

Better than putting a heatsink on backwards... yeah that was me.

Quote: Originally Posted by post_break Better than putting a heatsink on backwards... yeah that was me.

AHHA i did that before when i first got into computers! My first build i did that and my temps were soooo high and i didnt know why! lol And i thought the more AS5 you put on the beter! GOD was i sooo dumb! LOL i had half the tube under the fricking cpu and north! lol I had so much it was comming out of the sides! I just wiped it off and went on my marry way playing black hawk down... Untill my pc shut off.. Because my temps were like 70C on a 1800+ HAHAH Now i bet you guys cant touch that one! LOL


Matt

Quote: Originally Posted by MaTtsPc AHHA i did that before when i first got into computers! My first build i did that and my temps were soooo high and i didnt know why! lol And i thought the more AS5 you put on the beter! GOD was i sooo dumb! LOL i had half the tube under the fricking cpu and north! lol I had so much it was comming out of the sides! I just wiped it off and went on my marry way playing black hawk down... Untill my pc shut off.. Because my temps were like 70C on a 1800+ HAHAH Now i bet you guys cant touch that one! LOL Matt

pfff..... back in my first modding days, i had just gotten one of those temperature meassuring/fan controlling drives (5 1/2) and since i didnt know any better i thought the temp sensor would perform better if i were to place it in between the cpu heatsink and the cpu itself .... i didnt use any glue since i imagined the thermal compound would hold it in place ....

Quote: Originally Posted by Fortran pfff..... back in my first modding days, i had just gotten one of those temperature meassuring/fan controlling drives (5 1/2) and since i didnt know any better i thought the temp sensor would perform better if i were to place it in between the cpu heatsink and the cpu itself .... i didnt use any glue since i imagined the thermal compound would hold it in place ....

I think we have a winner...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sn0wMan I think we have a winner...

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Quote: Originally Posted by Sn0wMan I think we have a winner...

I think you're right

What the hell happed to the cpu?

Quote: Originally Posted by post_break What the hell happed to the cpu?

my cpu ? his cpu ? whose cpu ?

mine, .... nothing .... it worked fine .......

his ... well ..... i dunno

Great link lateronmly :-) I'm pretty sure everyone here has been a idiot a time or 2.
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