Could the cable overheat or melt?
Could the cable overheat or melt?
Hi! It’s a good idea to keep the rear exhaust fan cable inside the motherboard’s “IO shroud.” Just make sure it stays away from direct heat sources, like the heat spreader. You don’t want any issues with melting or damage. Thanks for being careful—your first build is important!
The insulation of the wires should be rated for at least 85 degrees Celsius ... there's electrical safety standards and all that crap which require high melting temperatures, low smoke, some wires have to be self extinguishing and so on Heatsink shouldn't be hot enough to begin melting the wires but even if they do melt ... the heatsinks is grounded or floating (not grounded or not connected to anything) If the wire melts worst case scenario you get 12v shorted to ground... the power supply will either detect the short and shut down (unlikely) or keep pumping energy, until either the wire gets to hot and melts like a fuse and breaks the short circuit, or the fan connector on the motherboard melts/breaks.... or i guess the wire gets so hot that it desolders itself from the fan (unlikely) The wire a fan has it thin, so most likely it's gonna break first, before fan headers on motherboards will die.
It’s a modest build and straightforward to assemble from what I understand (Cooler Master Q300L). The reason I haven’t installed the CPU yet is that it’s still being shipped to me, and I didn’t want to wait any longer, so I planned everything ahead and added the GPU and CPU afterward.
I actually found a much better way to hide it - in between the rear fan and the shroud that’s covering my IO there’s a little gap perfect enough for the remaining cable to be neatly tucked away. Thanks so much to all @Konrad_K @mariushm @Lurick @Elements6007