can i connect "7" of these fans to my psu using a 4-Pin to 6 x 3-Pin Fan Splitter PCB? or do they have to be connected to my motherboard.
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first use your motherboards fans available (4 or 3) pin ports with only 1 fan each and use power supply unit molex 4 pin conector to fan adapters for the ones remaining (take care psu max load current amp rate to avoid overloading each molex conector)
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I have no issues with it and 4 of them are connected to 2 fan headers using the silverstone pwm splitter. What specific issues are you referring to?
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I used a fan splitter cable such as SilverStone Technology All Black Sleeved 1-to-2 Sleeved PWM Fan Splitter Cable (CPF01)You could also use a separate fan controller instead.
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Correct. I use two of these to run 4 case fans.. 2 in front and 2 in rear. My motherboard controls the speed as designed. These are 4 pin connectors for PWM style fans. Don't be fooled as 1 connector only has 3 pins, this is by design to 'ignore' 1 fans speed signal to not 'confuse' the motherboard. Enjoy!
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4 pin pwm connections which work on 3 pin as well. You can use it on a mobo with 1 fan connection with a powered pwm splitter that draws from the psu directly. That's my recommendation if you use a splitter that's not powered you might get some noise from the fans on start up. But that depends on the amps your mobo can provide. Hope that helps. Oh and by the way I replaced mine with a AIO water cooler and the temps are way better allowing for an additional oc of 0.4ghz
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Yup, it'll connect right up.Edit: I've got mine hooked up to my PSU powering six fans.
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The ons cable that has 3 Molex spots can run up to 3 of these at once, but I would strongly recommend pluging them ingo your mother board so that you would have some control over the fan speed via the bios.
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This answer relates to the NZXT Sentry LX High Performance 5 fan controller.You need 3 pin fans or adapters to go from 4 to 3. PWM fans are 4 pin.
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You can directly attach four fans to a single thermal controller, so that is no issue at all. I am fairly certain that you could attach 6 or 8 (or more) fans to one controller using "Y" adapters, since each fan only draws 10mA, and the controller can handle 2000mA.
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Most powersupplys have a 4 pin molex I'm not sure what 3 pin connection you have on your power supply. I left the fan on low (as a case fan) because I used it in a low power system
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If the PSU has an 8-pin ATX connector, it automatically has a 4-pin. The 4-pin connector you need is half of the 8-pin so you just wouldn't use the other half. It's the same concept as a 20-pin motherboard connector and a 24-pin motherboard connector.
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Yeah these are not full 4pin splitters. Those are the Pwms, these are actually 3pin but allow you to use a 4pin port.
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My experience: I have a fan-less PSU and the stock setup is adequate. However, I do not use their included fan splitter, because my motherboard supported multi-zone tuning (no evidence that this is better/worse... YMMV). Fans are off/low most of the time under normal load. Hope this helps...
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I apologize for my first answer. I thought you were asking about a case. The motherboard supports 2 case fans with the 2 prong cord, and supports one case fan with the 3 prong fan cord. However, it should not matter as long as long as your PSU comes with the 4 prong standard molex connector because most fans have two power options, one of which being the molex connector.
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The fans will connect to the motherboard. They can connect to the psu if you have a molax adapter for the powers supply.
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There's a cable with the little fan connectors on it. Additionally, some motherboards have 1 or 2 fan control plugs (in addition to the CPU fan control). If your motherboard has them, then it's *probably* a good idea to use those for the primary case fan, as the BIOS will rev the fans up and down according to its needs. (I think the included cable is designed to plug into an old-style Molex connector from the power supply, but I'm not 100% sure and I can't get to my machine at the moment.)
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Your chassis fans should connect directly to the controller connectors. If the connections are incompatible you'll need a converter.