Mod LED Fans to a switch, while still being plugged into motherboard

[Scottydoeskno328]

I have a problem that know one I have asked really has come up with a solution for me, So i decided to visit the forums here for the first time because I really do enjoy Linus's videos and am curious if you guys can help out a noob like me lol. I just recnetly completed a fairly high end system build that I use for various uses but especially use for a media PC like watching movies from across my room. I would love to have LED fans going and lights around the case or maybe in the near future liquid cool the PC with cool neon lights and such. But there is one major problem with that since I do watch a lot of movies from my computer I would hate all those annoying lights being on right next to my monitor. I would ideally like to control the LEDs on my fans to turn on and off but (an here's the major problem) have them plugged into my motherboard directly to take advantage of FAN Expert 2 a software that I love tinkering with every 5 seconds lol. So here's my problem if i have to start getting into soldering wires, its no problem, I just have no idea about ground wires and positives and negatives and all that jargon. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated I also am using a 650d Corsair case with stock fans I plan on fully replacing. I would like to turn the LED's on and off through mutli switches mounted in the front of the case for each fan.

[Alterlai]

I'm not sure if there are any fans on the market with a LED switch. If anything you can look at buying fans without LED's or buy a seperate case door so you can switch inbetween the two if you want to dimm the lights.

[Sanguinn]

I'm not sure of any other companies, but the Bitfenix Spectre LEDs have a separate pair of wires on each one, which use a jumper to have the lights as always-on. It's marketed/designed to connect to their fan controller (which includes separate connections for the lighting, and a button to toggle it), but I'm pretty sure all you'd need to do is hook those wires up to the switches you want to set up, and you'd be good to go.

[AMICLG]

If you can get to the leads of each led you can do a simple circuit. Something like a 180 ohm,1 watt resistor on each led then wire them in series and use a molex to power and then add a switch. Use This (http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz) calculator to figure out what resistors to use. I used a Atmega 328p on a custom pcb and flash it with arduino bootloader to control rgb led strips in my case. Best of luck.

[Christicles]

I'm planning on doing something similar with my cm scout when I get the chance and money. I have some Spectre pros and want to add some LED strips to the inside as well but, in my case I need to make relay circuit in order to control everything. I plan to base it off of this diagram and add a few changes here and there to get everything working. But, basically you could just grab some Spectre Pros ( unless you plan on putting them on a rad or heatsink) and connect their jumpers up to a switch to turn the LEDs on or off.

[Scottydoeskno328]

Thanx guys for all da help