Hello, new to the forums and new to Alienwares version of pc's but have built a few back in the day . Anyhoo, I have a question about the liquid pump in that comes with the R6, and a few odds and ends if anyone might know. Here is the system build which you have probably read a thousand times .

7700k

850psu

16gb Vengeance 2133 ram

1060 6gb

Sound Blaster Z card

Thats is really, nothing fancy. So, as probably all of you do out there in the world you tinker with your new machine just like I tinker with supercharged engines most of my days to see just how much more you can get out of them with some degree of safety. So, what started all of this is I am going to be installing this card soon GTX 1080 TI SC2 Hydro Copper Gaming 11-P4-6599-KR. I know through reading and my own experiences with my friends 1080's that they tend to run a little warm. And, as we all know the Aurora case is a little tight in places for heat to really get in and get out. So, I was going to run a EKWB kit externally outside the case for the GPU cooling and figured well the stock CPU cooler is "good" but why not get a new block and plump the cpu in with the cooler and get better temps with my overclock. I have most figured out except when it comes to this pump assembly that I have used my Fluke on to see what wires are what ( since they are all black, awesome!). Now, they do not match standard 4 pin pwm seeing that looking at is from left to right when looking at the board the pins were as follows.

1 jumped to pin 4

2 was carrying 1.7 volts when running, I assume tach wire?

3 12 volts, bingo

4 ground and jumped to pin 1?????

I deal with alot of pwm in the auto industry now and I now that you can 100% duty cycle a pwm device with ground in vehicles for 100% operation. Is this the same on the pc board in the computer and why 1 and 4 are jumped together? I only ask because I downloaded Intel Extreme Tuning just to look at things through another utility and I saw it had CPU fan speed was averaging about 5 to 5500 rpm at all times with the pc running load or no load. So I am thinking my assumptions are correct about the stock liquid pump running wide open all the time.

So, now that you have read that novel is there anyway to wire this EKWB X360 kit in with its 4 pin adapter and get the Alienware control center to not give me a pump failure, fan failure, etc. etc.? I have read a few people with R5's and R6's using the Corsair h50 and Asetek coolers but I really want to get my cooler assembly outside my case for many reasons. So any help would be greatly appreciated and opinions would also be greatly appreciated. I know also, I should have just built my own rig and I would not be having to even think of things like this but I really like the look of the Alienwares and I always wanted to own one, so there you go .

Thanks again, Issac