RGB Confusion

[Jas99]

Hello, 

So I have a 4 pin Rgb fan and a 3 pin header on the motherboard. Can I just plug it in? Or will it not work? 

 

Thanks! 

[NumLock21]

It will still work, just that, there will be no fan control.

It also depends on the board, some can still control the fan, even if the board only has 3 pin header.

For the RGB itself, the will need to be plugged into an RGB header.

[Jas99]

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[Jas99]

11 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

It will still work, just that, there will be no fan control.

It also depends on the board, some can still control the fan, even if the board only has 3 pin header.

For the RGB itself, the will need to be plugged into an RGB header.

So for fan control everything is good and I have it working. It just rgb, 4 pin rgb lead off the fan and a 3 pin addressable header. Will that work? 

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Jas99 said:

So for fan control everything is good and I have it working. It just rgb, 4 pin rgb lead off the fan and a 3 pin addressable header. Will that work? 

What fan do you have?

[Jas99]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

What fan do you have?

It's the fan from my Ml120L AIO

[NumLock21]

41 minutes ago, Jas99 said:

It's the fan from my Ml120L AIO

Looking at the manual for the Ml120L AIO, it needs a 4 pin header for the RGB. Your AIO does come with a RGB controller.

I haven't heard of 3 pin RGB header, most is 4 pins or 5 pins. What board do you have?