Water Cooling fan help for CPU

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rahmin16

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I have had a corsair h60 watercooler for about 2 years now and was wanting to get an extra fan for the cooler am looking at these (but in 120mm- couldnt find the page):

http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/air-series-sp140-led-green-high-static-pressure-140mm-fan

However I am wondering where to connect the second fan to. My motherboard is a gigabyte GA-z87x-d3h:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4518#ov

However I had already connected my cpu block and the existing fan headers and I have only one system fan header left, do I connect it to that one or do I buy a fan splitter and connect it to the CPU fan, if so which one?

Thank in advance for any responses, ording on amazon soon so will just want advice as to whether I need a fan splitter.
 
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Lutfij
Your board:
8006_src.jpg

has two CPU fan headers, one which is the CPU_FAN and the other being CPU_OPT. The pump should be connected to any (SYS)fan header and set to it's maximum number in BIOS(per the manual) while the fan goes onto the CPU_FAN header. When you're making the move to the second fan for puch then you can take advantage of the CPU_OPT fan header.

In short your board has the means to work irrespective of a fan splitter though mind you, the Corsair range of fans be it LED or non LED have bad rep. If you'd like to order them be my guest but they'd rattle out and break down in a short period of time. You might want to take a look at Thermaltake's Riing...
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Your board:
8006_src.jpg

has two CPU fan headers, one which is the CPU_FAN and the other being CPU_OPT. The pump should be connected to any (SYS)fan header and set to it's maximum number in BIOS(per the manual) while the fan goes onto the CPU_FAN header. When you're making the move to the second fan for puch then you can take advantage of the CPU_OPT fan header.

In short your board has the means to work irrespective of a fan splitter though mind you, the Corsair range of fans be it LED or non LED have bad rep. If you'd like to order them be my guest but they'd rattle out and break down in a short period of time. You might want to take a look at Thermaltake's Riing range of fans but don't snap for the RGB 3 fan pack which requires a proprietary fan controller to manage the fans(rendering the motherboard options useless).
 
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