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3 minutes ago, wakywolf said:
  • Anyone know where this goes?

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That's a 3-pin RGB cable. It plugs into the addressable RGB header on your motherboard. Since I don't know what motherboard you have, I can't tell you exactly where the header is. It should say in the manual somewhere.

 

Edit: I believe the header is typically somewhere down on/near the bottom of the board though

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1 minute ago, wakywolf said:

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Never seen that one before. Where is it coming from or plugged into? 

 

Ah it's RGB, no wonder it's some unknown connector to me. 

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2 minutes ago, wakywolf said:

Anyone know where this goes?

That's a 3pin 5v argb header.  Plugs to the board if it has one. 

And if the board has a 4 pin 12v don't use that, that'll fry the cable. 

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1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

And if the board has a 4 pin 12v don't use that, that'll fry the cable. 

Should have specified that in my comment. Some boards have three-pin headers, and some have four-pin. If you don't have the right type on your board there isn't much you can do. Just leave the cable unplugged.

 

There are some boards that have both three-pin and four-pin headers though, like mine :)

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