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Antec TruePower 480W fan control useless?

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My Antec 480W truepower 2.0 ( :) ) has separate "fan-only" power connectors for case fans. The manual says the voltage on those connectors are "load controlled" and regulate the case fans depending on system load.

I tried them for my case fans but the result was pretty useless. It basically would run the fans at slow all the time even at full system load. This resulted in severely higher case temps than normal. Does anyone have experience with this? Is it possible to disable the "load control" of the fan-only connectors. I'd like to use those connectors so I can keep my fans off the power connectors to my graphics card.

Here's my system:

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
Athlon 3500 newcastle
XP90 + panaflo medium
2x512 MB Corsair 3200XL
eVGA 6800 ultra
Antec TruePower 2.0 480W
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case
 
Fans aren't high-draw items - there's nothing wrong with having them on the same chain as the graphics card.
 
davidhammock200 said:
The "fan only" plugs are pretty useless.

Put fans with HDD's, not video cards!
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That was my guess sofar. My 6800 ultra *theoretically* needs 2 independent 12V power connections with nothing else on it. At least that is what all those manufacturers state (probably bogus). That's a nice statement but how many PSUs do you know that actually *have* 3 independent 12V lines... :confused:
 
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