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FIRST BUILD HELP! Confusing case fans cables!

addycodes

Hi everyone. Part way through my first build. My case came with 6 reinstalled argb fans but I am a bit confused. They all came daisychained together out of the box but 6 on one header seems weird? There only seems to be an extra cable coming from one fan though for ARGB. Am I missing something? How is best to plug these all on? No controller as far as I'm aware.

 

Using the ASUS TUF B550 Gaming Plus Wifi II in full ATX and the Kolink MX Mesh case: https://kolink.eu/Home/case-1/midi-tower-2/observatory-series/observatory-mx-mesh.html

 

The case manual does not acknowledge the pre-installed fans at all!

 

5 ARGB PWM(?) fans pre-installed in the case...

 

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Came all daisy-chained together leading to the rear fan...

 

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I unplugged a couple here to try and work it out

 

The rear fan has a cable to the reset switch (for manual control of lights I think, a SATA cable and what I think are ARGB cables?)

 

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Only the rear fan has these additional cables ^

 

I also have this extra cable in the case

 

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I am really hoping I can use both the ARGB and have some fan speed control on all fans, but can't see how that will work and really scared of frying something.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated! Thank you!

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Found this video that shows the cables a bit more, a single SATA for power seems kind of pants as I assume there is no speed control then? The fans themselves were advertised as PWM but seems like they've been cut for this case? 😕

 

 

 

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These should be the headers for case fans: (I highlighted all 3 in red, unless there's more than 3 headers)

 

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3 minutes ago, podkall said:

These should be the headers for case fans: (I highlighted all 3 in red, unless there's more than 3 headers)

 

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I see those but unless I am missing something if I plug in to those there is no RGB control for the front 4 fans as there is only an argb connector on rear and only a sata power connector.

 

Seems like they've really limited it in the name of easier cables?

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6 minutes ago, addycodes said:

I see those but unless I am missing something if I plug in to those there is no RGB control for the front 4 fans as there is only an argb connector on rear and only a sata power connector.

 

Seems like they've really limited it in the name of easier cables?

I'm not that knowledged about RGB fans, but I know MBs have headers for that, this one has it on top right:

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