Fan splitter cable or molex to fan adapter?

Big Frank · 18 Aug 2018 at 13:48

Hey guys

As per the title I don't know whether to get either a fan splitter cable or molex to fan header adapter.

My mobo only has 1 CPU fan header and 2 x cha_fan headers but my case has room for 5 system fans and I want to add more in gradually in the future.

I understand that if I use a molex to fan header adapter that the fans will run at full speed.

Apart from that are there any other things I should consider from either 2 of these options?

Is one of the options more beneficial than the other?

Big Frank · 19 Aug 2018 at 09:22

Thanks guys.

I think I'd prefer the fans didn't run full speed because it is overkill.

My case is a coolermaster Mastercase pro 6 so it has plenty of airflow and 2 x 5.25 inch bays which is the main reason I bought it.

The fans for me are purely for aesthetics the system is cool enough I just want nice and bright blue led fans.

Big Frank · 26 Aug 2018 at 23:30

Todd Greene said:
Dosnt molex make the fans run at 100% or something where as splitters allow you to set in bios

Yep that's what I said above. I'll just get splitter cables but I'll need to check the power usage of each fan to make sure they don't overload the fan header or its bye bye mobo.

Big Frank · 27 Aug 2018 at 11:41

I'm more worried about having multiple fans requiring more power than the header can supply damaging the mobo.

I'm not going to replace my mobo for one with extra fan headers that's way too labour intensive for the level of priority.

Big Frank · 27 Aug 2018 at 13:11

Yeah the AIO pump header will be getting used too by the looks of it.