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That makes two of us, lol. :D

That seems to have worked a treat, fan is turning faster and the temperatures have dropped drastically again. Thanks a lot for the help. :) I'll eventually replace it with the Zalman as suggested but this at least allows me to continue using the system without limits between now and then. :)

But that would be putting 12V (yellow) down the 5V (red) wire, which sounds pretty dangerous. Not only that but from what I gather the 5V is actually -5V so wouldn't that also make the fan turn in the opposite direction? Are you sure I should try that? What I did last night was connect yellow to...

I connected it to the 12V, didn't want to send 12V down a 5V lead.

Which of the two do you think would do the best job of cooling? Also does anyone have any ideas as to why 12V and GND seemingly did nothing?

The Zalman cooler you guys were referring to was the ZM80D-HP heat pipe setup with the optional fan as well? Reading the Zalman website and checking my motherboard against their specifications for distances it does seem it would fit my video card, will definitely be investing in one when I have...

Just gave it a shot and it didn't work, 12V + GND and the fan doesn't turn at all, it only seems to spin when it has 5V + GND. I don't have sufficient leads to test what happens with 12V + 5V + GND yet, that will have to wait till tommorow. Any ideas why 12V did nothing?

So you're saying it is the graphics card which controls the voltage/senses the GPU temp and not some kind of controller/sensor built into the cooler itself? Just to summarise, you're saying that if I want the fan at 100% speed I need to disconnect the 5V (red) wire and connect the 12V...

Ok, a friend of mine is telling me that the actual fan speed is controlled by a sensor on whatever fan unit is installed, and not the video card itself. So regardless of where the power is coming from, be that the video card socket, a PSU lead, a floppy power lead or whatever - the video card...

No the yellow wire is the 12V one and it isn't connected, at the moment only the red and black are, those are 5V and Ground.

Ok, I now have the fan turning again. I removed 1/2 and replaced it with 4, only the red and black wires are in use though, the yellow one at present is not connected to a power source. So the fan is working, but looks like it's turning slower than it was before when the video card controlled...

Ordered a couple of new molex connectors, soon as they arrive I'll see about rewiring the cable to a PSU connector. Cheers for the help guys. :)

I may look into that in future then, in the meantime I'm looking for a quick intermediary solution that will save me any further expense, already forked out enough over the little fan explosion fisaco as it is. :( The AC cooler has a huge aluminium plate attached to the top side of the card...

Done a little searching and apparently the smaller connectors I've shown are a standard video card fan connector found on most video cards, only difference is that in many cases they only have two pins - mine is 3 with the 3rd being for the fan's RPM. I suppose I *could* remove the male head...

Hi there, I'm basically posting to ask if anyone technically (or better still electronically) minded could give me some advice and possibly help solve a problem I've got at the moment. I'll try to keep things as brief as possible whilst giving the relevant information. I've got an ASUS X800XT...