Thermaltake Smart Fan II sensor placement?

[onepercent]

Hello,

I just got a Thermaltake Smart Fan II to mount on a Volcano 7 heatsink, and I plan to use the heat sensor function to control fan speed. Where is the best place to put the heat sensor?

I read somewhere that the sensor can be placed directly on the CPU core, between the core and the heatsink. Is this an acceptable location, or could it cause damage to the CPU? Would the sensor affect heat transfer to the heatsink? Will Arctic Silver compound harm the sensor?

The other location suggested was to mount the sensor underneath the CPU, between the CPU and the socket. Could this cause a short if the sensor contacts the CPU pins?

Also, this fan has a 3-pin power connector and a 4-pin adaptor. Would the 0.70 amp fan use too much power to run it from a 3-pin mobo connection?

TIA

[AllGamer]

seems like you missed the INSTRUCTION paper included with it

instead of On TOP

you suppose to put it under the CPU

is real hard to do, but i did it

if you put it on TOP of the CPU

you risk killing either the Sensor or the CPU, that was an expensive $80 bucks lesson for a new CPU, and i was lucky i had another sensor cable from another fan

in my case, i killed both

so better do as they said and put it under

[Cyan]

Your better/safer if you use the 4 pin connector, putting it on the mobo could draw too much power, and cosiquently short the board.

(spelling?)

[stix_kua]

Consequently, you lose the ability to monitor the fan...but you could have the power leads straight from psu and just connect the sensor to the motherbaord like I did. It worsk quite nice except the random wire flying in front of everything else to get to the sensor port.

[onepercent]

AllGamer-
You got instructions? ****! Then again, I probably wouldn't have looked at them anyway.

I will take your hard-learned advice and forget about installing the sensor on top of the core; the idea seemed a bit sketchy anyway.