Fan connection

Associate
Joined
20 Mar 2024
Posts
51
Location
united kingdom
Once again I need help as I am new to pc building - apologize about external links, but would this fan setup work, as I find all the voltage requirements confusing if there even are any. 10 of these fans- and this is the mobo -
Thanks :)


*** Competitor Links Removed ***

Also I currently have 7 fans (including aio) and the mobo above if I want all fan colours and effects exactly the same do I need any connectors anyway? Keep in mind my aio fans are different from my case fans which are currently the stock fans with the ionz kk-z advanced dual chamber case and I have a thermalright aqua elite v3 360mm aio
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Well the fans are the ezdiy fab white moonlight (3 pin) and the hub is the arctic case fan hub - 10 fold PWM fan distributor with SATA power- black they are both available elsewhere

And my mobo is the asrock b760 pro rs d4 atx - white

My psu is the

Cooler Master MWE 750 Gold V2 Fully Modular PSU (UK Plug) - 80 PLUS Gold 750W Power Supply Unit, Flat Black Cabling, 120mm HDB Fan, High-Temperature Threshold - 5 Year Warranty​

 
Last edited by a moderator:
They removed your links due to them being to a competitors website and that is not allowed on here. Linking to the manufacturers website is fine but not competing retailers. This forum is paid for and maintained by OCUK so quite reasonably they don't appreciate us linking to their competitors which is a small price to pay for all of the wide ranging knowledge on here.

Right, I will attempt to get you sorted. Let's do the easy one first and that's the AIO (nice choice by the way). I will be referring to your motherboards manual and in particular the layout diagrams on pages 6 and 7 and the descriptions on page 8. You don't have to worry about any voltages for fans because the fan headers on your motherboard only supply the correct voltage. I believe your AIO came with it's own fan hub so plug all the four pin pwm plugs into the hub and then you will only need to use a single fan header on the motherboard. Pug the single PWM plug from the hub into header no 4 in the manual (CPU_FAN1). Plug the pumps power plug which is again a PWM plug into header no 6 in the manual (CPU_FAN2/WP). In your motherboards fan control software either in the bios or a app you may need to set this to water pump/WP so that it is controlled properly. Your ARGB plugs from the Thermalright fans should be able to be daisy chained so plug them into each other and you should have a plug left over which plugs into header No 10 (ADDR_LED2) or header no 26 (ADDR_LED1) in the manual. If your pump can be daisy chained onto the fans even better as you only have two addressable RGB headers and you will need the other for the case fans. Do not use the RGB LED Headers (RGB_LED1) and (RGB_LED2) header 9 and 25 in the manual as they are for the older 12v RGB leds. Modern ones such as yours are 5v. That should be the AIO sorted.

That hub you bought only supplies the power to the fans and is not for the ARGB side. The case fans power plugs can all be plugged into the hub you bought and then connect the hub to the motherboard at either headers 7 (CHA_FAN5/WP), 8 (CHA_FAN3/WP), 21 (CHA_FAN4/WP), 23 (CHA_FAN2/WP) or 30 (CHA_FAN1/WP) whichever one is easiest for you and cable management. Don't forget to plug a sata power connector into the hub from your psu.

The fan's ARGB connectors could be a bit tricky as you only have a single header on the motherboard left spare and I am not sure that it's up to the job of powering the 7 case fans. Ideally you would have a ARGB hub such as this which is sata powered and plug all the ARGB headers into that. You then only have a single lead to plug into the motherboard at whichever ARGB header you have left, either header 10 (ADDR_LED2) or header 26 (ADDR_LED1). You can then control all of the ARGB fans with the motherboard software. You would have been better of with a combined PWM/ARGB hub for the case fans. As far as I can see OCUK doesn't sell one of these so I can't link you to one but Thermalright does one. If you search for Thermalright Fan and ARGB HUB×8,ARGB/PWM Hub Controller you should easily find it for less than £8. That is powered by a sata connector from the psu and sorts out your case fans power and ARGB needs and leaves you only having to connect a single ARGB lead and a single PWM lead to your motherboard as detailed above.

***EDIT*** Crap, I just noticed that you only have 3 pin fans which are inferior to PWM fans. If you haven't already fitted them and are still in the return window do so and order a couple of packs of Thermalright TL-C12CW-S CPU Fan 120mm White ARGB Case Cooler Fan, 4pin PWM Silent Computer Fan With S-FDB Bearing Included, up to 1500RPM cooling fan(3 quantities) instead. These are the same fans as fitted to your AIO. PWM fans are superior in that they can run slower and more finely tuned than 3 pin fans which are voltage controlled. Also there is a possibility that a 3 pin fan plugged into a 4 pin header may only run at full speed.

Are you still withing the return window for that psu because it's not very good at all. For a extra £15 we could have recommended you a far superior psu with a 10 year warranty. If you do use the one you have make sure it's fan is facing the mesh case panel so it has uninterrupted access to cool air because it's cooling really isn't up to the job.

Hopefully this will get you sorted.
 
So thanks- basically all I have is the aio fans, and the 4 case fans: do I need to buy anything extra? I haven’t bought the other fans yet or the hub

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me

I can’t find any details on those case fans either :(
 
Inevitably it removed my links ;)
No - *I* removed your links ;)

Whilst we have no issues with providing help and support here, we cannot discuss or link to products for sale at Competitors

I suggest you re-familiarise yourself with the rules, specifically this section

OcUK Competitors

We, Overclockers UK (OcUK) are happy to provide the resources of these forums to responsible individuals without charge. They cost a substantial amount of money to maintain and use considerable amounts of bandwidth which is paid for exclusively by us. As you know OcUK are in the computer hardware business and therefore the promotion of OcUK's competitors is forbidden. Examples of promotion are :-
  • Posting links to direct competitors websites (i.e. other computer e-tailers)
  • Posting links to computer related products at general retailers (e.g. Amazon, Argos, Tesco etc)
  • Posting links to reviews that promote competitors
  • Quoting the names or contact details of competitors
  • Offering to provide the names or contact details of competitors
  • Hinting about product availability at competitors and their pricing
  • Using the forums to notify a member of intent or actual supply of names or contact details of competitors
  • Listing competitors names, URLs or e-mail addresses in signatures
  • Listing competitors names, URLs or e-mail addresses in profile
  • Posting links to or the mentioning of auction sites
  • Disguising attempts to do any of the above
PLEASE NOTE: the above list is not exhaustive and is subject to moderator discretion.
 
Also I currently have 7 fans (including aio) and the mobo above if I want all fan colours and effects exactly the same do I need any connectors anyway? Keep in mind my aio fans are different from my case fans which are currently the stock fans with the ionz kk-z advanced dual chamber case and I have a thermalright aqua elite v3 360mm aio
what is your motherboard, how many rgb, and argb headers does it have?
if you were trying to link an argb splitter ***elsewhere***, I've tried that and it was not great quality tbh
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I have already gone through his headers as he states what mobo he has in post #5. He has a pair of ARGB headers and a pair of 12v RGB headers.

@sxbxe What type of fans does your case come with? Are they pwm or 3 pin and are they ARGB 3 pin or RGB 4 pin? If they are ARGB 3 pin are they able to be daisy chained to each other? If so do that and plug the last connector into whichever of the two ARGB headers you have left on the motherboard. If the fans are powered by 4 pin PWM plug them into the PWM fan hub you have and conect it up as I listed above. I had a look at the case manual but it's worse than useless.
 
I'd suggest not, unless you both want to fall foul of the competitor rules :)
even theoretical info? which connector goes where etc? how to set up pwm fans to work properly? I don't know his real problem, only that he linked to a competitor
I'm not about to link him the whole of ***another site***, just link ocuk items that will work for him!

it's ridiculous that ocuk don't have some simple items, like 4 way pwm splitters
your discretion of course
 
Last edited by a moderator:
this is making my brain hurt I have a dual chamber case similar to the 011 plus my aio has 3 argb fans so two fans won’t work don’t u guys think an argb hub will work?
 
it's ridiculous that ocuk don't have some simple items, like 4 way pwm splitters

Except they do...

And even if they didn't then you can't link or advise people to buy computer parts from elsewhere.



My basket at OcUK:

Total: £31.34 (includes delivery: £3.99)​
 
I have already gone through his headers as he states what mobo he has in post #5. He has a pair of ARGB headers and a pair of 12v RGB headers.

@sxbxe What type of fans does your case come with? Are they pwm or 3 pin and are they ARGB 3 pin or RGB 4 pin? If they are ARGB 3 pin are they able to be daisy chained to each other? If so do that and plug the last connector into whichever of the two ARGB headers you have left on the motherboard. If the fans are powered by 4 pin PWM plug them into the PWM fan hub you have and conect it up as I listed above. I had a look at the case manual but it's worse than useless
I have no idea about the stupid case fans bc in the picture it’s rgb but they look different than in the picture irl :(

Ok they are pwm argb fans and there are 4

So 4 of those and 3 on the aio I listed above
 
Last edited:
"that's one that has one three-pin ARGB and one four-pin ordinary RGB,"
so you can have x2 rgb items in total, without any faffing about
so, i'd recommend getting some rgb ram, and just stick with x2 rgb fans

That's not right. I downloaded the manual and he has two of each type. You can clearly see it on the motherboard's webpage here where they go on about Polychrome RGB.
 
They removed your links due to them being to a competitors website and that is not allowed on here. Linking to the manufacturers website is fine but not competing retailers. This forum is paid for and maintained by OCUK so quite reasonably they don't appreciate us linking to their competitors which is a small price to pay for all of the wide ranging knowledge on here.

Right, I will attempt to get you sorted. Let's do the easy one first and that's the AIO (nice choice by the way). I will be referring to your motherboards manual and in particular the layout diagrams on pages 6 and 7 and the descriptions on page 8. You don't have to worry about any voltages for fans because the fan headers on your motherboard only supply the correct voltage. I believe your AIO came with it's own fan hub so plug all the four pin pwm plugs into the hub and then you will only need to use a single fan header on the motherboard. Pug the single PWM plug from the hub into header no 4 in the manual (CPU_FAN1). Plug the pumps power plug which is again a PWM plug into header no 6 in the manual (CPU_FAN2/WP). In your motherboards fan control software either in the bios or a app you may need to set this to water pump/WP so that it is controlled properly. Your ARGB plugs from the Thermalright fans should be able to be daisy chained so plug them into each other and you should have a plug left over which plugs into header No 10 (ADDR_LED2) or header no 26 (ADDR_LED1) in the manual. If your pump can be daisy chained onto the fans even better as you only have two addressable RGB headers and you will need the other for the case fans. Do not use the RGB LED Headers (RGB_LED1) and (RGB_LED2) header 9 and 25 in the manual as they are for the older 12v RGB leds. Modern ones such as yours are 5v. That should be the AIO sorted.

That hub you bought only supplies the power to the fans and is not for the ARGB side. The case fans power plugs can all be plugged into the hub you bought and then connect the hub to the motherboard at either headers 7 (CHA_FAN5/WP), 8 (CHA_FAN3/WP), 21 (CHA_FAN4/WP), 23 (CHA_FAN2/WP) or 30 (CHA_FAN1/WP) whichever one is easiest for you and cable management. Don't forget to plug a sata power connector into the hub from your psu.

The fan's ARGB connectors could be a bit tricky as you only have a single header on the motherboard left spare and I am not sure that it's up to the job of powering the 7 case fans. Ideally you would have a ARGB hub such as this which is sata powered and plug all the ARGB headers into that. You then only have a single lead to plug into the motherboard at whichever ARGB header you have left, either header 10 (ADDR_LED2) or header 26 (ADDR_LED1). You can then control all of the ARGB fans with the motherboard software. You would have been better of with a combined PWM/ARGB hub for the case fans. As far as I can see OCUK doesn't sell one of these so I can't link you to one but Thermalright does one. If you search for Thermalright Fan and ARGB HUB×8,ARGB/PWM Hub Controller you should easily find it for less than £8. That is powered by a sata connector from the psu and sorts out your case fans power and ARGB needs and leaves you only having to connect a single ARGB lead and a single PWM lead to your motherboard as detailed above.

***EDIT*** Crap, I just noticed that you only have 3 pin fans which are inferior to PWM fans. If you haven't already fitted them and are still in the return window do so and order a couple of packs of Thermalright TL-C12CW-S CPU Fan 120mm White ARGB Case Cooler Fan, 4pin PWM Silent Computer Fan With S-FDB Bearing Included, up to 1500RPM cooling fan(3 quantities) instead. These are the same fans as fitted to your AIO. PWM fans are superior in that they can run slower and more finely tuned than 3 pin fans which are voltage controlled. Also there is a possibility that a 3 pin fan plugged into a 4 pin header may only run at full speed.

Are you still withing the return window for that psu because it's not very good at all. For a extra £15 we could have recommended you a far superior psu with a 10 year warranty. If you do use the one you have make sure it's fan is facing the mesh case panel so it has uninterrupted access to cool air because it's cooling really isn't up to the job.

Hopefully this will get you sorted.

Wait so to be clear if I get the connector I showed that will just be the power not any argb - will the argb fans work just with the power connector if I don’t use the Argb on them?


And leave those argb cables not plugged in


Or will it only work with both


Hold on will this supply power and argb? TZMRIT

ARGB PWM Fan Hub, Addressable 5V 3Pin ARGB & 12V 4Pin PWM 2-in-1 RGB Case Fan Hub with Hidden Magnetic Base and SATA Power 18 Port, Support 9 Computer Fan CPU Splitter​

It gets good reviews


With my mobo and psu


Will it be compatible
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Back
Top Bottom