- Jun 8, 2005
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I need a question answered concering Power Supply fans. i bought 2 SOYO bundles a while back. One for me, and one for my uncle. Well, little benounced to me, it turns out that the power supply fan starts making a grinding sound about 3 months after purchase. I found the fan, removed it, and noticed it is sotered (spelling?) to the power supply. I can easily soter that without a problem. But the fan is 2 pin. I've heard of 3 and 4 pin but never 2 pin. Now I could be wrong but this is how I see it:
A 3 pin fan is composed of a positive, negative, and ground cable.
A 4 pin fan is composed of a positive, negative, ground, and variable speed controller cable.
My question is, can I simply cut the ground cable off of a 3 pin fan and use the other two??? Now I know what some of you are thinking: "A power supply is only $30, why the heck does he want to go through all this!" Cause I want to lol. So can anyone help me out here?
A 3 pin fan is composed of a positive, negative, and ground cable.
A 4 pin fan is composed of a positive, negative, ground, and variable speed controller cable.
My question is, can I simply cut the ground cable off of a 3 pin fan and use the other two??? Now I know what some of you are thinking: "A power supply is only $30, why the heck does he want to go through all this!" Cause I want to lol. So can anyone help me out here?