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will case fan ran if i connect molex female to molex male from psu?

nika123
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i have bought new case fan but it has only molex and i thought it would have 3 pin connector, so now i have to buy psu to molex but i don't know if connecting to female molex will be problem.

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Shouldn't be a problem though the fan will run at full speed and you won't have any control over it.

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Just now, mmk said:

Shouldn't be a problem though the fan will run at full speed and you won't have any control over it.

so i can connect any side i want no problem right?

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18 minutes ago, nika123 said:

so i can connect any side i want no problem right?

It's most likely a 12v fan, it will connect to the 12v rail (yellow).

 

But like @mmk said, the fan will be "dumb" and just run full-tilt because the motherboard will have no speed control over it. You might be able to set the speed manually if it has a switch (like the fans that came with my Antec Three Hundred back in the day did).

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14 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

It's most likely a 12v fan, it will connect to the 12v rail (yellow).

 

But like @mmk said, the fan will be "dumb" and just run full-tilt because the motherboard will have no speed control over it. You might be able to set the speed manually if it has a switch (like the fans that came with my Antec Three Hundred back in the day did).

so, if i connect this guy to psu and male molex to female port on fan everything will be fine, just i won't be able to controll fan speed, right?image.png.c5114b81bc970a029d9a333ea50b25db.png

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Where are you feeding power into that adapter?

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2 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Where are you feeding power into that adapter?

from psu

 

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28 minutes ago, Caroline said:

This is for a graphics card, not a fan.

 

You don't need any "adapters" to power a molex fan, it goes straight into the PSU. I'm thinking your fan comes with a pass-through MOLEX connector, this is only for you to daisy-chain other fans into it, not for you to plug two connectors at the same time, because that's how you create a short.

this isn't exact model, but connector is same and i have semi modular psu and i can't find molex connector on psu, so what should i do? 

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