Got my Antec 1200 how do i connect fans?

willyboy104 · 13 Sep 2008 at 11:21

Hi guys, i ve had the pc a while but had to nick a cable from my old pc when i first built it to connect the molex on the antec 1200 fans to the corsair hx 520w psu. However i had to rebuild my old pc and sell it before i went to uni, now i dont have a cable for my fans on my antec.

Does anyone know how i can connect them up? I seem to need a molex connector for the fans with a 6 pin connector on the other side, all i seem to have is molex and sata connector and another really random connector which i don't know where its for.

Anyone any ideas?

dan7827 · 13 Sep 2008 at 11:36

I have a 1200 case & HX520w psu, all of the fans should just connect up with the 4pin molex connections. Just try not to connect all of the fan molex's together on to the same psu connection or you may end up with some of the fans not spinning.

willyboy104 · 13 Sep 2008 at 11:53

Ok thanks I'll have a go at doing that

Phil2008 · 13 Sep 2008 at 22:48

I have all my fans connected to 1 psu molex connector, and its fine

tigerstyle · 13 Sep 2008 at 23:13

Phil2008 said:
I have all my fans connected to 1 psu molex connector, and its fine

It will be fine, perhaps your other fans were 3 pin fans? In which case you can connect them straight to the motherboard.

Phil2008 · 13 Sep 2008 at 23:21

thepedster said:
It will be fine, perhaps your other fans were 3 pin fans? In which case you can connect them straight to the motherboard.

Na all 4 fans are daisy chained to 1 psu connector

Raziel1 · 14 Sep 2008 at 03:17

I didn't want to risk daisy chaining all of mine so I split them into pairs.

willyboy104 · 14 Sep 2008 at 11:14

Mine were all joined together and connected to PSU and they seemed fine, I'll find a cable to do this again then.

tigerstyle · 14 Sep 2008 at 11:38

willyboy104 said:
all i seem to have is molex and sata connector and another really random connector which i don't know where its for.

You gotta pic? Because the only connectors your PSU should have are Molex SATA and the others, and fans are only 3pin mobo style or 4pin Molex (plus speed sensing) So can't see where any issue would rise up? :confused:

RJC · 14 Sep 2008 at 11:46

It might be the cable for powering a floppy drive.

tigerstyle · 14 Sep 2008 at 11:55

RJC said:
It might be the cable for powering a floppy drive.

true, but mini 4 pin I would have thought was obvious?

ahhhhhhhh I guess this phantom 6 pin is for PCIE GFX cards? (under my obvious umbrella

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