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i have a A320M-s2h, i'm planing to change my fan from non rgb to rgb but my motherboard does not have rgb header. I dont want to use any controller to control my rgb lights cuz using software is lot more easier.

Hello, My motherboard (asus z270-a) have a 4 pins rgb header, but I bought a water cooler with rgb that only connect to 3 pins rgb and and an other thing that only connect to 3 pins rgb, How can I controle both of them with my 4 pins header ? I can't find any converter that as multiple 3 pins connexions, please help! Thank!

Hello guys, i have a fractaldesign define s2 vision rgb, a asus rog stix 570 e gaming and a thermaltake 3.0 360 water ARGB AIO. so my question is if i could connect the case fans to the fractaldesign rgb controller and on the motherboard rgb header at the same time so i could control it via aura and the controller how i want it or is that impossible. same with the AIO with the thermaltake rgb controller and motherboard rgb header. is that possible or not maybe connect all fans with eachpother and then via cable splitter to controller and MB? to control it however i want or do i have to use MB Header OR Controller or can i use both? i hope u guys can help me thanks.

Hi there, I am planning for building my first PC and have some difficulties finding the right motherboard. The fans in the case I want to buy and they require a three pin 5V RGB header. Typically its a header with two pins on the left, a gap and then a third pin on the right. I'm looking at two different asrock boards, the B660m phantom gaming 4 and the B660m pro rs. According to the asrock website there are four RGB-headers on the "pro rs" (three of them being 5V) and none on the phantom gaming 4. On both though, I can see an additional, similar looking connector labeled UART. (I included a picture) What is that for, and could it potentially also be used as an 5V rgb header, even though it sais, there are none on the B660m phantom gaming 4? Otherwise I found no real difference between these two motherboards, and cannot see why I should pay 20.- more for a bigger VRM-heatsink. (I do want the rgb headers though) Additional question: I considered the biostar B660mx-e pro as a motherboard, but was taken aback by the smaller looking capacitors and that it doesn't support "k" CPUs. I'll use a 12400f, but I thought, it might be a bad sign, that it doesn't officially support CPUs over 65W. Has anyone of you experience with biostar motherboards?

Hi there so I’m currently building a pc for someone but I have run into my first hiccup. I had everything plugged into the motherboard ready to go so I switched it on and everything ran smoothly however, the lights on the 4 Corsair LL120 Fans (1 at the back and 3 front panel ones) did not come on at all and then I realised that there was no RGB header on the board at all :/. Is there an easy work around to this? I had a look at the Corsair fan hub/lighting pro but we do not care about being able to control the lights we just want them on. Please let me know if any solutions . I am running a Corsair spec delta RGB case and added an extra Corsair LL120 fan at the back.

Hello, Im looking to purchase computer parts to build my first pc.I am a fan of RGB so I have gotten several components with RGB, however I noticed that my motherboard only has 2 5v RGB Headers. Is there any way I can keep all RGB aspects (e.g. accessible RGB's) without buying an incredibly expensive RGB hub such as the Commander Pro from Corsair? Many thanks! p.s. Here is the build if it helps(Australian Dollars): https://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/GamingSeargent/saved/tR6NP6

I bought a Thermaltake Commander C32 case, it comes with two 200mm Addressable RGB Fans. they are connected to a a fan controller and they provided two types of cables to connect the controller to mother board with below headers i have a GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming (rev. 1.0) mother board and it only has a single 5 pin Addressable RGB Header. how can i connect this controller to Motherboard, do i need to buy a converter or am i missing some thing, any help would be much appreciated. thanks

i want to ask, is it safe to use burnt motherboard like this for the long term ? should i fix it anytime soon ? up until now, i'm still using it, and it is still working. i dont really understand about pc, in fact the first time i built pc was 2 weeks ago, if you guys know about the burnt component on my motherboard and the side effect of it, please tell me Motherboard type : asus b250f

Hey guys, Been planning a build that's going to include four RGB fans (MasterFan Pro 120's) and a PWM fan controller for the fans themselves, however I was wondering how many LEDs from these RBG fans (ie, how many RGB fan leads) can I run off of one RGB motherboard header? the B350M I'm planning on getting only has one RGB header, so I was wondering if I could just get a four-way 4 pin splitter to come off that single header and go to each of my fans' RGB connections. 1: Will there be enough power there? I kind of figure yes..? 2: Will the lighting work/be synced? As an aside, I went with these fans over the Corsair HD 120's because the Cooler Master fans can use my B350M's MSI lighting software along with the RGB RAM I'll have. Thanks in advance for your help!

My mobo is an msi h110m pro-vh and it doesn't have an rgb header and i was wondering if i could in any way add rgb (light strips, fans, etc.)

How do I connect my 2 rgb fans, and 2 rgb light stripes with only 2 rgb headers on my asus mobo? Plus this is my first rgb pc build so I’m new to the rgb stuff.

All, I'm trying to inquire about any issues that anyone else may be having with the ASUS prime x370 pro board. I have gone through 3 boards in 2 RMAs and I'm not making any progress. Here is the list of steps that I have taken over the past few months. My original build, January 2018 Asus x370 pro motherboard, Ryzen 1800x @4.00GHz, 2x8GB 3000MHz GSkill Trident Z RGB RAM @2933MHz, EVGA 850W PSU, EVGA 1060 3GB FTW GPU, Samsung 960 pro Nvme, and various other drives. I built the computer as a school workstation/gaming rig. After about 15-16 months of using it I bought a new EVGA gtx 1080 ti for a steal at $500. Eagerly I installed it and ran into crashes with Origin games, I called EA and went through troubleshooting and realized it crashed on 3d mark and other games. I used it for schoolwork for about a week until I ran into the issue of it blue screening when I ran a simulation involving my research (I’m a computer engineering researcher at my university).Thinking it was my new graphics card I put it in another computer and flogged the living crap out of it for 3 days without any issues. After all updates including firmware I backed up all important files and started my windows 10 repair. Eventually I got to the point where I had installed Win 10 at least 5 times and installed Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 19 all on the x370 board. All had the same issue no matter the driver and graphics card combination. I spent at least 10 days trouble shooting with my coworker to try and figure out which component was faulty swapping in various processors and boards with different graphics cards including my 1060 and a quadro p4000. I proceeded to test ALL of my other components on an asus b350 and a $40 asrock a320 board that I use at work as a drive copy machine that runs my nvme on crystal disk at over 3600MBps. My board was only running at 760MBps. I tested my components on a coworker’s gigabyte x470 as well and it worked fine. I talked with EVGA and they said that it could be my PSU that is causing issues with the gpu so I sent it back to EVGA without any issues and received a new/refurbished one in about 5 days. Put it back in and guess what, same issues still continued. Turns out the nmve slot was only using 1 pcie lane instead of the 4 it was supposed to have. Turned off the asmedia controller in the chipset and I got my 3000MBps read but it was a problem since I lost lanes on my GPU as well. So I sent the board back to Asus. I paid $20 for shipping (understandable not upset about it at all). 1st board and RMA- After I sent the board back I realized that I had issues with the board running slow and it was extremely difficult to get the RAM above 2133MHz on the ASUS Prime x370 board (I know that ryzen gen 1 was hard to get over 3000MHz). After they received the board I kept getting phone calls 1-3 times a day saying “We have received you board and it is in the process of being repaired.” I don’t mind a status update but when it’s on average 2 times a day for a week and there is no change from the previous call it gets annoying. 2nd board and RMA- All in all I received my second board since they were unable to repair it and swapped it for a new one. I plugged in my new board and Nothing happened, IT WOULDN’T EVEN POST. I thought I fried my 1800x so I put in my 2400g from my server and nothing happened, put my 1800x in the other board it worked just fine. I again tested all of my components in the other systems I had available to me and they all checked out. Called ASUS and said that they sent me a bad board, they said that I needed to pay for shipping. I argued for about 30 minutes saying no that they sent me a board that was DOA and I don’t think it is right that I have to pay to ship a product that they outright failed to check before they sent it out to a customer. I asked if I could pay the difference and get a hero VI x370 board that had the reset cmos button and bios rollback and they said they couldn’t do it. They asked what steps they needed to repeat the problem I responded with, “Just plug it in and see.” I wasn’t able to send the board for 2 or 3 days due to my busy school schedule. I finally sent it out and still received daily reminders for 2 days after I shipped it. I thought it was odd that they kept asking me for the tracking number even though they sent me the shipping label. I waited again for 2 weeks, 3 days shipping both ways and 10 days for “repairing” which was again another swap. 3rd board and my current situation- I received my third board on 7/20/19 and wasn’t able to install it until Monday. I plugged it in and it posted. Noticed it looked odd, NO RGB. It’s not that big of a deal I had this problem before after a bios update and fixed it by disabling the RGB in the BIOS then enabling it again. This didn’t fix my RGB problems and I called ASUS to see if there was something that I could do. I received an email that gave me a step by step of what I had already done, Update bios install Aura sync again ect. I continued to test the system with my school programs and some games and at the time of sending the email I was unable to get the computer stable enough to run any simulation or benchmark. I responded with the following on Tuesday morning at about 10:30 eastern time. John, Thank you for the call and email. I regret to inform you that your steps did not resolve my RGB issue. Also more importantly I am having an issue with all VGA cards. I have three different cards that I tried, EVGA 1060, EVGA 1080ti, and an NVidia Quadro 4000; all cause my applications to crash. Applications such as games, video rendering, and compiling code for my school work thesis. This is the most trouble I have ever had with a computer. I have again, same as after the previous two RMAs tested all of my components on other systems as well as swapped in other components to my 3 different boards. I took my RAM, CPU, GPU, and PSU and connected them to an ASUS B-350 and a $40 Asrock A-320 board that outperformed the higher end chipset that I have now had three of. I am unable to complete my school work at home and have to travel 45 minutes to my research lab to work on my thesis. I have done all BIOS updates and left the settings at default. I have looked online to see if there is something to change in the BIOS that will not cause it to crash. I have reinstalled windows on various drives, I had it set up in a dual boot with Ubuntu 16.04 which also had problems when using the Vulkan drivers for linux (which eliminates the possibility of driver issues) I also flogged my components with a different board on a benchmark for over 72 hours and they all checked out. I am working on an AI system for autonomous vehicles for my research project and I have now lost 6 weeks minimum on the shipping and “repairing” (which was just a swap) that have taken place due to the previous RMA’s. Please help me with some steps that I can take just in case I left something out or overlooked a potential error. I didn’t receive a reply so I called them 48 hours after I sent the email and my ticket was escalated a few hours later since they “had a problem with their system” when I called at 11:00 eastern time. I know it is just RGB but how would you feel if you bought a new car and the radio stopped working? As of today 7/26/2019, I messed with it some more and did a roll back on the chipset driver and I’m now able to get the computer to work as intended without RGB though. I’m afraid that the RGB runs through the chipset and it is just a matter of time before it breaks again. Asus called me about 24 hours after they escalated my ticket and I walked him through this entire page or two of what I have done including all components that were in the computer at one point or another with the result of each. I was told that they are talking with the product engineer to see if any of it was incompatible. I do not want another ASUS prime x370 pro board since they clearly have quality control issues. I will be more than happy to take them up on a refund, higher end x370 board that hopefully was binned better, or maybe an x470 board. At any rate I will not be purchasing another ASUS product for personal use, work (I’m a LAN Admin at a company of over 100000 employees and have already passed this along to the other IT employees), or for my research (I’m a graduate student doing research in AI and neural networks in my schools digital and computer research lab) for a while. This was actually an issue because I wasn’t able to do research for my thesis at home and had to travel about 45 minutes to the lab to get any work done. I’m fortunate enough to have built another similar computer that is able to do some of the required work that I have to do but it isn’t the monster system that I built to run simulations in a time efficient manner.

hi ! first of all sorry for my bad English and my noob question. I'm not really a techie like I used to be. I got left behind with the tech stuff after windows xp was launched. got busy with other stuff. ? Anyway regarding the RGB headers. I have a gigabyte z370m d3h motherboard and it has one RGB header. without checking the manual I went out to buy a RGB fan (ID Cooling ZF12025) to go try it out. So when I got home and plugged the fan I can't seem to control the lighting effects with RGB Fusion. So I checked the manual about the rgb header it says led strip header. so I'm kinda confused now i thought RGB header was kinda universal like I can plug fan or rgb led strip. when I checked gigabyte website it says it only "RGB Fusion supports RGB LED strips in 7 colors " So my question is are there two or more kinds RGB headers ? or are they a universal thing? I also checked other motherboards like Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming for quite an expensive board this one also have rgb led strip header but I dont see any rgb fan header.

Hey, I was looking at an image of the evga z370 micro atx board, and there appears to be some sort of rgb header on the top right. I've also read that the board does indeed have an rgb header, but it has no bios support for it, so I would have to get the evga eleetx software to control rgb fans. So I was wondering if these fans will work with this board - http://www.deepcool.com/product/dcoolingaccessory/2017-07/12_6835.shtml It says somewhere that it comes with a splitter to plug all 3 in an rgb header. Would I be able to use the splitter, or should I just get an rgb controller? Thanks :)

I'm using Gigabyte B450M-ds3h motherboard. It has one RGB LED strip header and no other rgb related header. So can i use it as RGB header for rgb fans(to use rgb fusion) or it is for rgb led strip only?

I am using Gigabyte B450m-ds3h motherboard and Cooler master masterbox mb500 cabinet. This case comes with three rgb fans preinstalled. It also has rgb controller. But i want to control fan color and color style via gigabyte rgb fusion app. The motherboard has 1 x cpu cooler LED strip/RGB LED strip header. Can i use rgb fusion with this motherboard to control my fans' rgb? If yes, how ? I have attached motherboard manual, if anyone would like to take a look. Thank you. Note: Please check the motherboard manual ( i've attached). mb_manual_b450m-ds3h_e.pdf

Hello all, i am very new to this website but i do need help and i am very under experienced with installing lots of fans, especially rgb fans, my pc right now had a fan controller already inside that controls rgb and fan speed. I am looking to buy a new pc and i have most of my parts all sorted out ready to buy (waiting until end of november). My new computer will have a ryzen 7 3700x and a rtx 3070, The problem here is that i have alot of rgb fans, they come with the case and my MASTERLIQUID ML240L V2 RGB AIO. There is a rgb fan controller in the case but i have coolermaster fans with my aio and corsair fans in my case, it has come to my attention that i cant use the coolermaster fans on the rgb fan controller as they arent ARGB and need their own rgb header, As far as i know the motherboards i have been looking at (Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite, MSI B550 A PRO and Gigabyte B550 Gaming X) only have one rgb header that works with fans, Its stressing me out alot because i dont want to spend double on another AIO and i like the coolermaster one. PLEASE HELP!

I have a RGB strip but no 4 pin header on it. I know it should be connected in a 4 pin slot because it has 12v, r, g and b input copper circles on the strip. How do i connect it to the mobo's 4 pin rgb connector without buying a RGB header for my strip

Hey there, I'm currently working on a Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-DELTA RGB Case, which comes with 3 RGB LED fans. They connect to the board via 3-pin fan connectors, which is fine, but the lights connect via standard onboard RGB header. All of them are connected to a single RGB 4-pin plug via included Y-cable. The problem here is, the board I am working with has no RGB header. Now my question is, how am I going to get those to work? Since it's a simple RGB connector meant to be plugged into the boards RGB header, wouldn't any cheap RGB controller work? Here's what's available in my area. It would be nice to either be able control it with a remote (which doesn't have to be connected via a cable, if possible) or via software, since I do have a free internal USB 2.0 header. I hope you guys can guide me a bit and help me find a product which isn't overly expensive, maybe even from my provided list. Cheers! :)

Hi,Looking to hook up some sweet RGB to my Corsair LL120's. Can the lighting node pro do this alone? or will I need a fan hub as well? Looking at the lighting node pro it has 2 3 pin connectors but the RGB cable off of the fans are a 4 pin connector.Also, my mobo (strix b-350 gaming) has a RGB header connection. Will plugging the RGB cable directly onto this enable the leds to produce colour? I understand I wont be able to control the colours via iCUE but would they still work?Thanks

I hope this is the right subforum for this question... Anyways I am building a PC (my first build) and i have choosen my parts etc... the problem I have is that a few of my parts have rgb support, like fans, ram and AIO. Because of this I went with a motherboard wich supports aura sync (Asus prime z370-a if i remember correctly). However the board only has a single rgb header, how am i supposed to connect all my shiny new rgb stuff to it and sync it all together? Thanks in advance!

My mobo has a 5pin rgbw pin. Can i connect a standard 4pin rgb to it? Pin layout seems to be the same? I will be getting bitfenix spectre pro 140 rgb? It is a good fan?

So I recently purchased cooler master's mastercase lite 5 RGB for my pc build, and upon building, noticed that the 3 included front RGB fans had an RGB splitter connected to them, and so I connected the splitter to the 12v G R B header on my motherboard. When I booted up my system, however, I noticed that the fans in front were running at a constant 100%, and that they didn't show up in my bios, but I could control the led color from the bios as an led strip. Is there a way to control the fan speed for them? Because these always running at full is somewhat bothersome. My motherboard is the gigabyte z370 d3, and my case as stated earlier is the cooler master mastercase lite 5 rgb. Any help would be greatly appreciated Edit: I forgot to mention this originally, but the fans are being powered directly from my psu with a molex connector.

Hello LTT Community, Im planning on doing a RGB Custom Loop and im going to buy the "Phanteks Glacier C350i" link : http://www.phanteks.com/PH-C350i.html and "EK-XRES 140 Revo D5 RGB PWM (incl. sl. pump)" Link : https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-xres-140-revo-d5-rgb-pwm-incl-sl-pump Both stuff requires a RGB Header and my current Motherboard "Z270 MSI Gaming M5" only has one https://de.msi.com/Motherboard/Z270-GAMING-M5.html. As far as I know stuff like this http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/cooling-accessories/1-to-3-rgb-splitter-cable/ from Cooler Master exists. Does anyone else had the same Problem before? I would like to hear your Opinions or possible solutions. Thank you.

Hello i have searched everywhere about if and how i can control the rpm when i have pluged my fans on rgb header i have a 1-to-3 rgb splitter cable by coolermaster which came with my case, and the 3 rgb fans which also came with my case. mobo:asus prime b350-plus case: coolermaster masterbox lite 5 rgb