Case fan wiring.

[Ethan]

Okay.

Question for a little bit down on the road: Is mounting the mobo hard?

Wasn't for me, but my case was loving huge.

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[Sirrus]

Wasn't for me, but my case was loving huge.

My case:

[Ethan]

My case:

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[Sirrus]

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Eh?

[Ethan]

Eh?

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[Sirrus]

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Oh, hold on.

Done

[TapeDeck]

The power supply lets a small trickle of power to flow to the mobo at all times to let it sit in standby when it's not on.  When you press the power button, the mobo sends a signal to send power to all systems and power up its own fan.  Case fans can either be powered by your motherboard (you can control the RPM with this method) or you can use a molex (the kind of power plug IDE devices use) to 3 pin case fan adapter cable.  There is a trick you can do by shorting two wires on the mobo connector to fool the power supply into thinking the mobo is telling it to power on, but I don't see why you would need to test your PSU/case fans.  If they don't work when you power it on for the first time, the computer won't melt if it doesn't have those fans blowing for the 10 seconds it takes to check them.

[Zaran]

It's easier to mount the mobo with the PSU not hooked up.

[Ethan]

Is that image mirrored? All of my cases open up more on the left side, not the right.

[Sirrus]

It's easier to mount the mobo with the PSU not hooked up.

I guess I'll take it out to mount the mobo when I buy it.

Is that image mirrored? All of my cases open up more on the left side, not the right.

It opens on both sides, but the side that you can actually get at stuff is the left side.

[TapeDeck]

Is that image mirrored? All of my cases open up more on the left side, not the right.

You're looking at the case with the top closest to you.  Its a bottom-mounted-PSU case.

[Sirrus]

You're looking at the case with the top closest to you.  Its a bottom-mounted-PSU case.

tis it is. It kind of threw me, I'm so used to it being on top.

[Ethan]

You're looking at the case with the top closest to you.  Its a bottom-mounted-PSU case.

I C

Looks pretty big though. The case I've got at the moment, isn't a big one. I kind of miss my big case, as now I need to take out my video card just to take out a hard drive or something. Even then, I nearly take off a capacitor or 2 from the mobo.

[TapeDeck]

I C

Looks pretty big though. The case I've got at the moment, isn't a big one. I kind of miss my big case, as now I need to take out my video card just to take out a hard drive or something. Even then, I nearly take off a capacitor or 2 from the mobo.

My case has the hard drives go in sideways, perpendicular to the mobo.  Its a bitch to wire but it makes it less hassle with large video cards.

[Ethan]

My case has the hard drives go in sideways, perpendicular to the mobo.  Its a bitch to wire but it makes it less hassle with large video cards.

I had to try get a CD drive in the other day, and the way the front plastic panel bit is, when you eject it, it pushes open this plastic bit, instead of the whole front of the drive being seen. Anyway, since I couldn't slide it straight in from the front, I had to try and get it around the PSU, so I angled it at about a 30 degree angle, and went to slide it in, and it nearly took off the CPU fan.