I was thinking about adding the hybrid cooler to my reference 980ti. 1, for better temps and 2, for a system that is more quite.
so it got me thinking, how does adjusting the blowers fan speed effect the pump and rad fan?
for instance, after installing the hybrid cooler i would want to keep the blower at 20% (minimum) at all times (possibly let it go to 30%). but low enough to not hear at all.
would this mean less power is getting shared with the pump and rad fan (since their power splits from the blowers connection)? is the blower supposed to be set to a fixed speed to make sure the hybrid cooler is getting adequate power? for example 50% at all times?
sorry, i must have worded it badly. let me try again: first, the facts: the hybrid cooler powers its pump and rad fan from the same port that the onboard blower fan gets its power from.
you put a header on the card that splits the power; 1 goes to the blower and another goes to the water pump (the water pump then powers the rads fan as well).
so i guess i am confused on how much power the pump and the rad fan requires to operate without any issues. it seems like a lot of required power. the single port that use to just power a single blower fan is now powering that same blower, as well as a pump and a 120mm fan.
i guess its not a big deal since this is how the hybird card was designed?
but my question.
you can control the blower fan speed from msi or evga software. but with the addition of the pump and rad fan, should you?
what happens when you set the blower to 30% speed? since now the pump and rad fan are sharing that same 30% power threshold? i just dont get how all that can be powered off a single header that is not running at full power. does the hybrid cooler require that the blower run at "at least XX% to function properly"?
post edited by cmoney408 - 2016/02/13 17:23:24