Re: am curious if the CPU fan motherboard pin connectors are a standard wiring that would accept the aftermarket fan as-is standard pwm 4 pin, but dell bios checks fan tach rpm and may or may not give a boot up error if fan rpm differs too much from oem fan. same for case fan header
I plan to install an aftermarket CPU cooler in an XPS 8950.  Specifically BeQuiet Dark Rock TF2 based on this writeup: [URL] I am curious if the CPU fan motherboard pin connectors are a standard wiring that would accept the aftermarket fan as-is.  I have seen many older posts with information about Dell motherboards using a proprietary swapping of pinouts.   Since the linked post was pretty thorough and did not mention it, my guess would be that these are standard wiring.  But I want to ask before I get into it for further assurance (or to first be prepared with an adapter). While I'm asking, what about the case fan pin headers? Thanks much in advance!
XPS 8950, CPU fan pin headers on motherboard