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SuperShires
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Dont know if this goes here or not, I have a corsair 500r and recently bought 2 af120's to replace the front 2 white LED ones, instead of connecting them to the fan controller I used a fan splitter so I could connect them to my Asus Z87-A mobo and control the speed using AI Suite. Now the Z87-A only has 5 fan headers, 1 for rear exhaust, 1 for the 2 top af140s (using a fan splitter), CPU fan, and finally the 2 front af120's using the fan splitter. Now this leaves me with 1 fan header, the OPT CPU fan header. Im wondering what I could do to hook up an af140 LED to the side (to replace the 200mm stock fan) so I can control it via AI Suite, could I connect it to the OPT CPU fan header?

 

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Dont know if this goes here or not, I have a corsair 500r and recently bought 2 af120's to replace the front 2 white LED ones, instead of connecting them to the fan controller I used a fan splitter so I could connect them to my Asus Z87-A mobo and control the speed using AI Suite. Now the Z87-A only has 5 fan headers, 1 for rear exhaust, 1 for the 2 top af140s (using a fan splitter), CPU fan, and finally the 2 front af120's using the fan splitter. Now this leaves me with 1 fan header, the OPT CPU fan header. Im wondering what I could do to hook up an af140 LED to the side (to replace the 200mm stock fan) so I can control it via AI Suite, could I connect it to the OPT CPU fan header?

 

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you could either connect it to the cpu_opt, which will cause it to run as fast as your cpu fan, or just get another splitter and connect it to the front fan splitter and make a group of 3 fans out of those.

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you could either connect it to the cpu_opt, which will cause it to run as fast as your cpu fan, or just get another splitter and connect it to the front fan splitter and make a group of 3 fans out of those.

Would that be recommended, connecting a fan splitter to another fan splitter? would it not cause any problems?

 

 

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Would that be recommended, connecting a fan splitter to another fan splitter? would it not cause any problems?

3 fans is still ok. You might run into problems with 4 or more connected to one header. As far as connecting splitters to splitters goes, its ok as long as you dont connect to many fans to one header.

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3 fans is still ok. You might run into problems with 4 or more connected to one header. As far as connecting splitters to splitters goes, its ok as long as you dont connect to many fans to one header.

Alright thanks for the help, much appreciated.

 

 

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Would that be recommended, connecting a fan splitter to another fan splitter? would it not cause any problems?

 

Another way would be connecting it with exhaust using one splitter.

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Another way would be connecting it with exhaust using one splitter.

I resorted to just buying a Bitfenix 3 fan splitter, connect it to my front 2 af120s, cool thing I found with AI suite is if I run it on silent it turns the LED's off, which is pretty handy.

 

 

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I resorted to just buying a Bitfenix 3 fan splitter, connect it to my front 2 af120s, cool thing I found with AI suite is if I run it on silent it turns the LED's off, which is pretty handy.

 

Thats more because of too low voltage to keep leds running, not actually meant feature :D cool that you have this sorted out now.

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