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My PC is a 6 year old Dell Dimension 9150 Pentium Dual Core with Intel 945P CPU, with 3gb of memory.
The Graphics Card is an ASUS ENGTS450 Direct CU/DI/1GD5 (with cooling fan)
Power Supply is an Antec TruPower 650W PSU
When playing Skyrim after about 2 hours the Graphics start to slip or freeze or fire back to desktop. Invariably this involves switching off the supply and restarting the system.
I am pretty sure that this is an overheating problem.
I propose to fit an 80mm input fan and a 120mm exhaust fan into the case. Plus maybe an 80mm PCI slot fan.
My problem is where to get the power for the fans.
The Antec PSU has 2 x 12V1, 1 x 12V3 and 1 x 12V4 available connections on the side of it. Can they be used for the fan power supplies? If not, then which connections on the motherboard can I use?
One high street company says I can certainly fit one fan on the PSU, another company says not to use the PSU but fit to the motherboard.
I also see that there are splitter cables to enable multiple fan connection. What do members think?
Please help
Spartan6
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Posted December 21st, 2012 08:00
I will get to this when I got to PC, as long as you have the Molex (4 Pin connector shown above) available, you can use wire split connector for fan and connect 2 fans to 1 Molex. I will be back.
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Posted December 21st, 2012 14:00
You need something like this: Pactech: 5v DC fan wire splitter 4" 4P2C ( 2 ) to 2 x 3P2C ( M ) Wide side is Molex 4 pin split into 2 3-pin connectors, there are also many more similar connectors.
It is so simple, yet it is so difficult to find on internet. This is Pactech product list in pdf, I wish it could be more clear, so you can see all options.
DELL-Rajath N
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Posted December 19th, 2012 11:00
Hi Spartan6,
I suggest you to clean the processor fan with the can of compressed air as the dust accumulated on the fan could reduce its efficiency. You will need to connect the case fan to a molex connector provided with the Antec PSU. The motherboard has options only to connect the CPU and memory fans.
Please let me know if you need further information.