heatsink and fan issues

[1Nation]

I'm building a computer for the first time and I've hit a little speed bump. My fan wont fit on my heatsink (the heatsink came with 60 and 70mm adapters but the fans 80mm), and my fan has two loose wires whereas my mobo has a space for a cpu fan plug of some sort. I found this info on the fan so I'm thinking I may need to hunt down some adapters... Any advice? Do you know where I can get this stuff online?

Here's the system:

Enermax CS-3051L-B3A (Black)Aluminum Case with 350W PSU
Thermalright SLK800A Heatsink
Panasonic Panaflo L1A 80mm
A7V600 mobo
AMD XP2500+ Barton FSB333
Micron 512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9000 64Mb DDR 4x Dual Video Card
Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM 8MB CACHE Hard Drives
Lite On 52x32x52x Black Color CDRW Drive LTR-52327S

[1Nation]

Anyone used this fan or heatsink before?

[tele_player]

I have several of those fans, the places that sell them usually offer a little cable which has the correct plug, or you could splice one from another fan.

[1Nation]

Thanks for the response Tele.

If I can't find a connector at Fry's tommorrow I probably will just buy another fan and take the connector. (Why didn't I think of that?)

I have a few questions:

What do you use to connect the wires from the fan to the connector?
Will the mobo automatically detect what voltage to run the fan at?
How do you like these fans?

[progress88]

Hey 1Nation,

Check out my response in the best systems.....thread

[1Nation]

Thanks Mike, I was reading the A7V600's manual last night and it seemed to say that the cpu fan was meant for 12v fans. Mines a 24v version. Do you think that will cause problems?

[thomsbrain]

it will run too slowly, and might not spin up at all, but it won't hurt anything to try it. the panaflos are already very low speed, low output fans, so you may want to rethink running it a reduced voltage. boy, i don't know where you got that fan but i've never seen a computer store sell anything but 12 volt panaflos with the 3 or 4 pin adapaters already installed. you might be better off just spending the 7 bucks or whatever it is to get another one. i've had good luck with 2cooltek.com for my cooling and sound isolation needs. newegg.com is another good store, but i don't know if they have the panaflos or not.

edit: i see you're running an athlon. i'm going to change my advise to "don't even try it." a properly functioning panaflo is already thin ice (pardon the pun) for an athlon because they produce a lot of heat and the panaflo is super wimpy. running a panaflo at an even slower speed is really asking for overheating issues. get another fan. try to find yourself a 12 volt panaflo.