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Quick question about wiring

d3fct

d3fct

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hey guys, just a quick question. I will be upgrading and adding another water loop, so this means more fans, i allready have 2 loops with 2, 360 rads, so as u can tell im running out of 3 pin adapters. so my question is if i splice the 3 fans on each radiator to 1 molex and sleeve it will that be fine i should i worry? just to be clear 3 fans spliced to one molex, wasnt sure about the load being too much for one plug or not.
 
it wont hurt to try if you ask me
 
3 loops?!

Anyway, yes, that would work.

When you connect the fans to Molex, you're getting power straight from the PSU. So you don't need to worry about current at all. You can attach as many fans to a molex connector as you want.
 
ok cool, thanks i figured it would be ok, just checking before i smoke up 9 fans, lol.yes 3 loops, 1 for cpu and each 280 is getting its own loop.
 
no particular reason really, just peace of mind that i can run the 2 280's in sli overclocked to the max and be the coolest possible temps.
 
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