Kage
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I'm a it stressed
I got all the parts today in the post finally, and I first took out all the fans (keeping the CPU fan/heatsink in place for the moment), and then tried to fit the new 120mm fan for the front.
Well, I came to want to plug it in (uses the motherboard connections, while my old one didn't) and the cord isn't long enough.
I then went to connect the two 80mm fans for the back in the same way. Again...not long enough
So I haven't even tried with the CPU heatsink yet (Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO). Knowing my luck today, it won't fit on this motherboard or something (though a review did have this board running).
Plus, the 80mm fan I did manage to connect up by using the North Bridge fan connector (the wrong one really, as the ones I need are all stupidly placed at the bottom of the motherboard under the sound card!) is even though its supposed to be really quiet and temperature controlled, has a noticable low wine to it, though I guess its not as noisy as my old fan was.
This is soo annoying, and because its hot/I'm tired, I haven't had the patience today
Its possible to buy extension cables for 3 pin power cables right for motherboard connections, because I went to MicroDirect, and they don't seem to sell them?
If not, I'm totally stuffed, and will probably complain for not making them long enough.
Arrgghh
I got all the parts today in the post finally, and I first took out all the fans (keeping the CPU fan/heatsink in place for the moment), and then tried to fit the new 120mm fan for the front.
Well, I came to want to plug it in (uses the motherboard connections, while my old one didn't) and the cord isn't long enough.
I then went to connect the two 80mm fans for the back in the same way. Again...not long enough
So I haven't even tried with the CPU heatsink yet (Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO). Knowing my luck today, it won't fit on this motherboard or something (though a review did have this board running).
Plus, the 80mm fan I did manage to connect up by using the North Bridge fan connector (the wrong one really, as the ones I need are all stupidly placed at the bottom of the motherboard under the sound card!) is even though its supposed to be really quiet and temperature controlled, has a noticable low wine to it, though I guess its not as noisy as my old fan was.
This is soo annoying, and because its hot/I'm tired, I haven't had the patience today
Its possible to buy extension cables for 3 pin power cables right for motherboard connections, because I went to MicroDirect, and they don't seem to sell them?
If not, I'm totally stuffed, and will probably complain for not making them long enough.
Arrgghh