BonzaiDuck
Lifer
I've been using ASUS motherboards since around 2003, but I'm now dabbling with some Gigabyte boards -- specifically this EP45-UD3R.
I'm going to do CPU cooling with a ThermalRight Ultima-90 -- not "the best" -- but I'm not really going to over-clock this configuration. It's to be used as a home file server with an E6600 C2D processor.
Last year, I'd picked up a couple of these 92mm fans:
Delta FFB0912SH 92x25mm Super High Speed
I have some other 92mm fans with lower amperage, top-end dBAs and speeds, and -- if I want to -- I can jerry-rig an Intel CPU fan securely to the Ultima-90. I'm leaning toward use of this DELTA because I've had good experience running their beefier models at half-speed (with very nice, low noise-levels) and thermally controlling them.
ASUS typically provides amperage limits for their motherboard fan-headers in their printed user-guides. I find no such data in the Gigabyte manual. As I understand it (and as it is implicit in the way ASUS presents the amperage specs), the cumulative amperage for all fan-headers applies equally to any single header or subset of all fan-headers chosen for use. So ASUS would say "1.0 Amps per fan header, or 7.0 Amps for all fan headers." The logic behind this was confirmed by a friend and physicist who made reasonable guesses about how power was being supplied to these fan-headers.
As a footnote to that, I've run fans on individual headers (with ASUS boards) which exceed the "per-header" spec, and never had a a problem with such configurations over years of usage.
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW GIGABYTE SPECS THEIR FAN-HEADERS? This DELTA fan has a start-up current of 1.04A (12V), and a running amperage spec of 0.69A.
Any reasonable, insightful observations about this are welcome.
I'm going to do CPU cooling with a ThermalRight Ultima-90 -- not "the best" -- but I'm not really going to over-clock this configuration. It's to be used as a home file server with an E6600 C2D processor.
Last year, I'd picked up a couple of these 92mm fans:
Delta FFB0912SH 92x25mm Super High Speed
I have some other 92mm fans with lower amperage, top-end dBAs and speeds, and -- if I want to -- I can jerry-rig an Intel CPU fan securely to the Ultima-90. I'm leaning toward use of this DELTA because I've had good experience running their beefier models at half-speed (with very nice, low noise-levels) and thermally controlling them.
ASUS typically provides amperage limits for their motherboard fan-headers in their printed user-guides. I find no such data in the Gigabyte manual. As I understand it (and as it is implicit in the way ASUS presents the amperage specs), the cumulative amperage for all fan-headers applies equally to any single header or subset of all fan-headers chosen for use. So ASUS would say "1.0 Amps per fan header, or 7.0 Amps for all fan headers." The logic behind this was confirmed by a friend and physicist who made reasonable guesses about how power was being supplied to these fan-headers.
As a footnote to that, I've run fans on individual headers (with ASUS boards) which exceed the "per-header" spec, and never had a a problem with such configurations over years of usage.
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW GIGABYTE SPECS THEIR FAN-HEADERS? This DELTA fan has a start-up current of 1.04A (12V), and a running amperage spec of 0.69A.
Any reasonable, insightful observations about this are welcome.
