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Originally Posted by Jonboy
the only fans i would run off the motherboard is the cpu fan, i would run all other fans off the psu the way motherboards are made nower days i would not trust the tracks on the motherboard to cope with the power that some of these fans use they are wafer thin now, and you could end up with a burnt out track on the board within a few months down the line not easy to fix, as long as you have a good 400w psu run yer fans from that
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THe difference between running a fan off the MoBo and the PSU makes no difference to the power consumption - it all comes from the PSU anyway.