Lexbr Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Hey folks, I have bought a new H50, but sometimes the pump stops working! Does the h50 consume more power than a standart fan? I have a 450W PSU is it enough? Or is the problem the H50? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsec Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Since the power to the H50's pump is provided through a cable with a standard three pin fan connector, which is suggested to be connected to a mother board, the pump should not need more power than a fan. The usual maximum power for a fan header on a mother board is 1 Amp at 12V, or 12 Watts. The H80 and H100 coolers that have a built in fan controller and power distribution unit for their fans, use a molex connector to provide power to the controller, fans, and pump. So obviously Corsair knows what they are doing. If your H50's pump is turning off, there might be a bad connection somewhere. That might be in the cable running to the pump, or in the three pin connector. The H50's pump runs at a constant speed, so it's power draw does not vary. Are you seeing the pumps speed go to zero in the BIOS or with monitoring software? Can you hear it stop working? The amount of power used by the H50, including it's fan, is much less than almost any other component used in a PC. If the pump and fan each used 1 Amp of 12V power (they actually use at most half of that each, and likely less), that would be (12 to) 24 Watts of power. That is not much compared to a video card or CPU. Whether or not a 450 Watt PS is enough for your PC depends much more upon the CPU, video card, the number of drives you use, add-on cards, and the number and type of case fans that you use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 19, 2011 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 19, 2011 These pumps does not pull a lot of power, I think your 450W PS is good enough, well depending on other components you have in the system. It does not sound like insufficient power, but more on the pump's connector - It could be that there is a faulty wire/pin on the connector. Connect it to the PWR_fan header or if you have 3pin to molex adapter, use it and see if the pump would still stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexbr Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 My 450W PS was enough with a stock cpu fan. I think the problem can be the pin connector like you said. My motherboard (Ga-z68ma-d2h-b3) has only two connectors, the SYS_Fan and the CPU_Fan and both have 4 pin while the pump is 3 pin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsec Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 If you think your boards fan headers are not cooperating, then you could use a molex to three pin fan adapter on the H50's pump. The molex connector is attached directly to you PS, and the three pin connector on the adapter to the pump. With the usual molex to three pin adapter, you won't be able to monitor the pump's speed. There are adapters of that type that have another wire attached to a three pin fan connector that can be connected to a mother board fan header so the fan's speed can be monitored. I use that kind of adapter with my H60's, and they work perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexbr Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 If you think your boards fan headers are not cooperating, then you could use a molex to three pin fan adapter on the H50's pump. The molex connector is attached directly to you PS, and the three pin connector on the adapter to the pump. With the usual molex to three pin adapter, you won't be able to monitor the pump's speed. There are adapters of that type that have another wire attached to a three pin fan connector that can be connected to a mother board fan header so the fan's speed can be monitored. I use that kind of adapter with my H60's, and they work perfectly. Is this one? http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Cables&type_sub=Fan%20Cable%20Adapters&model=C-CABLE-ADPT Does it work connecting the PS, pump and my 4 pin board fan header? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 20, 2011 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 20, 2011 yes, that's the one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexbr Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Thank you! No problem so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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