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JupiteL
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So tomorrow I will order some fans for my case, since the old fans are not really good for airflow. But before that, I want to ask something that really bother me about fan cases:

 

If I have say like 4 fans on the case, and there is only 3 fan connector, what should I do with the other one? should I use the molex adapter? I've already try it and the fan runs really noisy.

 

thank in advance.

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So tomorrow I will order some fans for my case, since the old fans are not really good for airflow. But before that, I want to ask something that really bother me about fan cases:

 

If I have say like 4 fans on the case, and there is only 3 fan connector, what should I do with the other one? should I use the molex adapter? I've already try it and the fan runs really noisy.

 

thank in advance.

You could use a Y spliter cable to connect more than 1 fan to a single Fan header on the motherboard.

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get a fan splitter, i know phobya has some, i think noctua has some too like these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812162026

search for fan splitter or fan y cable, there are some that use a 4 pin and a molex but you can plug in up to 8 fans to a single connector

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2 to 1 fan splitter gets the 4 fans into 3 ports and very cheap too.

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Which fans did you get? Some higher end fans come with splitter/extensions/low voltage adapters already.

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