Someone please help this amateur (me) with his fan/rgb connectivity nightmare

[quinn.wh]

Hello from Australia everyone! This is a repost from Reddit because the people over there couldn't seem to solve my issue/s. The details of my issues are in the images, and the only one I have managed to solve since posting on Reddit is that the RGB hub that came with my AIO also came with an adapter for RGB connectors on motherboards that I previously didn't see. This being said, my mini-ITX motherboard (which is inside of an m-ATX case) only has one RGB connector (and one system fan connector, as well as a 4-pin CPU fan connector). The problem with this is that my main fan hub (the one in pictures 2 and 6) uses the RGB header instead of a fan header as its motherboard plugin. Would I just need to buy a splitter to solve this issue, or would I run into voltage issues running 5 fans, an AIO and the RGB for each from one header?

 

Hope everyone's having a great holiday season!

-Quinn

[NorKris]

3pin AIO goes to the motherboard. AIO header or CPU header

 

 the other 4pin fan cables can also just be plugged into the MB.

When it comes to the RGB / ARGB connectors. that mess is the price of not buying stuff with standard connectors 

[quinn.wh]

20 hours ago, NorKris said:

3pin AIO goes to the motherboard. AIO header or CPU header

 

 the other 4pin fan cables can also just be plugged into the MB.

When it comes to the RGB / ARGB connectors. that mess is the price of not buying stuff with standard connectors 

I knew that the AIO header went into the motherboard, but thank you for seemingly confirming with me that I just need to get a 3pin to 4pin adapter for it.

 

I explained in the text portion of the post that my motherboard only has one CPU fan header as it's a Mini-ITX board. I currently have them plugged into my other fan header, I just wanted to simplify it and was asking for ideas on that, but it seems like not a lot can be done.

 

And as for the last part, yes, I have learned my lesson. I usually like a challenge (my actual PC is a converted Dell Optiplex, heaps of cabling issues there), but this build that I was doing for someone else has opened my eyes to the hellish world of non-standardised RGB and fan cabling.

 

I'm probably going to have to re-pin all of the 5pin fan/RGB cables into new, standard, seperate fan and RGB headers and buy a new hub that has tons of 4 and 3 pin connections unless anyone happens to know of a perfect adapter for the header that comes with that particular 1stPlayer hub that splits their 5pin fan/RGB connection into a 3pin RGB and 3 or 4pin fan.

 

If there are any other suggestions then that's still more than welcome!!!

 

 

[NorKris]

3 hours ago, quinn.wh said:

I knew that the AIO header went into the motherboard, but thank you for seemingly confirming with me that I just need to get a 3pin to 4pin adapter for it.

 

adapter? never heard off. just plug it in?