Hi all:
Recently I took the opportunity to upgrade my long-serving C2D pc which had a nice, stable overclock of 3.1 ghz for the past 2 years.
I bought a new case as the old chenbro gaming bomb was a bit pushed for space when a modern gfx card plus all the cabling was inserted.
Anyway, this new gigabyte case comes with a few fans as standard. The front are 2 x 120mm and then there's a (possibly) 80mm exhaust fan plus a top fan , also 120 mm.
Anyway, the front two fans plus the exhaust fan end in molex connectors. The front two, for lack of a better word, daisy chain into one connector with 2 male pins and the rear one has 2 connectors - one female, one male with 3 pins.
The molex connector i have for my psu has four male pins which is unhelpful for starters so somehow I need to convert the adaptor.
#1 is there an adaptor that can do male to female - everything I've seen is female to 3/4 pin to attach directly to the mother board.
#2 Should I just buy the converters that attach these fans to the motherboard, rather than trying to connect them direct to the psu with a molex connector? (I should point out that the front two fans have switches on the bezel of the case to turn them on or off - would a motherboard connection be appropriate in this case?)
#3 If I do, somehow manage to get them connected to the psu - as they seem to have 3 or 2 pins and my connectors to the psu will have 4 holes, are they likely to just blow up, spin round the room and kill someone, final destination stylee?
Sorry for the long post!
Recently I took the opportunity to upgrade my long-serving C2D pc which had a nice, stable overclock of 3.1 ghz for the past 2 years.
I bought a new case as the old chenbro gaming bomb was a bit pushed for space when a modern gfx card plus all the cabling was inserted.
Anyway, this new gigabyte case comes with a few fans as standard. The front are 2 x 120mm and then there's a (possibly) 80mm exhaust fan plus a top fan , also 120 mm.
Anyway, the front two fans plus the exhaust fan end in molex connectors. The front two, for lack of a better word, daisy chain into one connector with 2 male pins and the rear one has 2 connectors - one female, one male with 3 pins.
The molex connector i have for my psu has four male pins which is unhelpful for starters so somehow I need to convert the adaptor.
#1 is there an adaptor that can do male to female - everything I've seen is female to 3/4 pin to attach directly to the mother board.
#2 Should I just buy the converters that attach these fans to the motherboard, rather than trying to connect them direct to the psu with a molex connector? (I should point out that the front two fans have switches on the bezel of the case to turn them on or off - would a motherboard connection be appropriate in this case?)
#3 If I do, somehow manage to get them connected to the psu - as they seem to have 3 or 2 pins and my connectors to the psu will have 4 holes, are they likely to just blow up, spin round the room and kill someone, final destination stylee?
Sorry for the long post!
