okay so i bought this arctic 120 mil fan with the rgb for the case on the um cyber power
machine it cost me 14 on amazon it's got a six year warranty and we're gonna put it in
our case basically on top here over the cpu on the left side of the um cpu it should have
two four connector pins on it one for the rgb and one for the motherboard we'll look
at it now and see all right so there's the box there's the fan and you get four screws
each connector has a male and a female end so that's good i thought it just had the one
end but it has both so we'll be able to install this pretty simply on our device i hope
this one right here that looks like this is the is the grb
uh at least that's what it says on the connector um
this one definitely goes to the motherboard right here
and this one goes to the rgb for some reason they put grb on the connector i don't know
why maybe when you look at the connector it'll tell you which there's an arrow on there too
so i'm pretty sure the connector we have only uses three pins on our back of our case i'll
look at it right now i can't get a close-up of it without it getting really cloudy but
there's the connector it's called system fan it's near the back of the case be on the side
of the fan the cpu fan it's right there you can look on the manual if you want to look
for it but it's right there it's a system fan there's three of those on the motherboard
you can use any of them but i'm going to use that one because it's the closest the cable
seems to have enough room
so there's the connector it's plugged into the motherboard um they give you a pigtail
so you can put another fan on that connector there but i'm not gonna probably do that i'm
just gonna put that in the hole in the bottom there the motherboard is laying flat and there's
a hole that you could you could put the cable in and kind of hide it
make sure those arrows line up there
just to let you know the fan has an arrow pointing where the airflow is going so if
you need to know which direction it's going
i'm not getting any light out of the um fan right now weird as you can see here i plugged
the rgb cable back into the original um cooler fan and the light does work but plugging in
there um arctic 120 mil fan it doesn't work okay so so on the gigabyte dvd you have this
program called system information view or siv and here i show you i put the fans a hundred
percent no matter what the temperature or load is right there basically you select system
fan on the left there system fan one and you can then apply it there's an apply button
and you can set it so here i'm going to change some settings and i'll show you just basically
how you do it you just drag those little dots down like that to where you want to have it
at certain load levels it's pretty easy to do you have to do them in order they won't
let you go in the middle and do stuff for some reason but as you can see i just applied
it now before i do any um changes like that i would suggest that you hit save profile
and save whatever's in there now not that it really matters but then you could always
load it back if you have to but see how you can adjust all the parameters and and you
could have um then you apply it and then your you'll see the rpms on the left change as
you apply it and where that red dot is is your current temperature and load right now
so if you change the stuff on the left you'll see changes on the rpms there i'm going to
save the profile
and i save that that profile
and i apply it and um in a few seconds i'll show you how you can get that um rpms up right
now it's at 1300 this is supposed to be a 2000 rpm fan from what i can tell i can get
it up to 1900 and that's about it which is kind of odd you think they would overestimate
and not underestimate a fan
all right so we're gonna put it all to the top now
and you can see i'm putting it a hundred percent when it's like 40
percent load
and you see how the rpms are going up now because it's got to ramp up to that top dot
there i want those rpms even higher so i'm going to move the dot a little higher and
you got to apply it or won't show the rpms changing see i'm moving those up
and then i apply and watch the rpms go up it's at 15 96 right now now it's at 1727.
so you just keep doing that until you apply it i'm going to have it run at a full 100
regardless of what the load is because that's what i want and what i found is that it doesn't
really affect the sound of this the fan this arctic fan is pretty quiet so if you put it
at 100 i don't see a big reason not to have it a hundred percent if it's not going to
make much more noise than it is at lower speeds so you can see i'm at 1880 now and that's
as high as this guy's going to go 1885.
okay so i i just posted the um comparison between no fan and with fan i'll show you
a results page after this but i just wanted to show you this for a second
okay so you can see here that putting the fan on top as exhaust really didn't have much
difference in temperatures i got maybe one degree two degree lower in temps the rpms
on the cpu went down and i've gotten a little bit better performance on the cpu randomly
on it like it would go down five or six degrees cooler but for the most part it stayed about
the same i'm still going to put a fan in here just not this fan i bought the fan basically
for the rgb portion i wanted some lights on top of the case as well so the rgb doesn't
work on this arctic fan this 120 millimeter fan that ardex sells so i'll probably look
for another fan it's going to be really hard to find another fan with four pin connectors
like this this one was perfect if it would have worked i'm not sure maybe i'll get another
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