Hi I'm Jeff3F and I'm new to aquasuite and octo. I've been water cooling since 2017, but until recently I never had a proper fan/temp controller setup.

I would like to run ALL of my fans/pump off of my OCTO. I don't know about my motherboard, but I hear that motherboards can have errors when there are NO fans/pumps connect to its headers. It is hard to google for this, there are hits about "do I need fans?" and these aren't what I'm trying to find. My motherboard is MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk wifi MAX.

I will soon try the experiment of moving my pump off of the motherboard, but assuming that causes a problem I have an idea.

To understand my idea, please Google for "skip shift eliminator" - it was a mod for GM cars (Camaro/Firebird/Corvette) 25ish years ago to bypass a fuel-efficiency feature GM utilized to sell those cars without a USA "gas guzzler" tax. One installed a resistor cap onto a cable end to fool the car computer into thinking it was activating a solenoid. You could also bypass "skip shift" by driving like a maniac but that's beyond the scope of this thread. 9 miles per gallon was a typical gas mileage but the cars were speedy :-/

So what if the motherboard had a "fan" cable that was connected to a resistor instead of a fan, to trick it into thinking it's controlling a fan? Has anyone resorted to this so that they could run everything through an aquacomputer fan controller?

Thanks! Jeff3F

Thanks! I feel sheepish. My motherboard does indeed allow me to ignore “no fans”. I am a bit disappointed that I won’t be breaking gout my soldering iron like it’s 2004 and I’m turning down the HSF on my althllon with a resistor dial!

I’m watching the @kaybeetech videos about how to make novel signals to help run the pump curve and how to map it out. It’s probably excessive, but I will enjoy doing it.

Another question - for an Ryzen 9800x3D, CPU burner maxes out my CPU (95C) though I can turn up pump and then it maxes out closer to 88C. I’m sure it is fine for my use but part of me wonders if I should consider reapplying the thermal paste, maybe using some AS4 I have instead of the alphacool apex paste that came with my AC core 1 block. The apex paste was a bit gummy, and against my usual judgement I did use their provided spreader tool instead of my usual X or blob pattern for the CPU.