Halfway through building my new gaming pc and I see that the asus P6t Deluxe has sockets for 3x case fans and 1x cpu fan. My case has 3 fans (Fortress Ft01) So I will be using all those. But my cooler (The noctua socket 1366 one) has 2 fans, I dont have to have 2 CPU fans but I would like the option to. So how would I go about connecting the other fan if there is no place on the Motherboard?
How to add more fans to PC?
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You can get a Y splitter that allows you to connect two fans to one motherboard header. Also means theyll both run at the same speed. That or connect one up to a molex and live with it running full tilt all the time.
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Could also get yourself a fan controller - it'll give some more manual control which some find useful for turning down the noise levels when leaving a PC on all night or playing a high def movie for example. Check out the range here
I wouldn't fancy putting that much load on 1 fan header on the mobo.
Get a fan controller or a molex to fan connector converter.
At the very least Read The Mother Board Manual. Some mb's have much better drive capabilities than others, my Asus can handle 24 watts on the cpu header for example.
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Ive done it with 2 of my motherboards and with a zalman fan mate in series, not had any problems :S hopefully my motherboards wont toast 
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