air cooling PWM Hub with 3-pin fans?

[Surpuppa]

Phanteks has a PWM hub on most of their cases. What happens if I plug in a normal 3-pin fan into it? Will I still be able to change its rpm?

[Lukiewookie]

6 minutes ago, Surpuppa said:

Phanteks has a PWM hub on most of their cases. What happens if I plug in a normal 3-pin fan into it? Will I still be able to change its rpm?

 

Have a look here: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2205716/explain-3pin-4pin-fan-correctly.html

 

TL;DR - It should be possible

[W-L]

6 minutes ago, Surpuppa said:

Phanteks has a PWM hub on most of their cases. What happens if I plug in a normal 3-pin fan into it? Will I still be able to change its rpm?

If it's this kind of hub on the case they are designed to take in a PWM control signal and provide an equivalent 3 pin DC voltage control signal as the output pins are only 3 pins:

[Surpuppa]

4 minutes ago, W-L said:

If it's this kind of hub on the case they are designed to take in a PWM control signal and provide an equivalent 3 pin DC voltage control signal as the output pins are only 3 pins:

So it will make my 3-pin fans quieter?

[W-L]

Just now, Surpuppa said:

So it will make my 3-pin fans quieter?

Well it gives them the ability to be varied in terms of speed but will still retain it's controllable range as a 3 pin DC voltage control fan. 

[thekeemo]

6 minutes ago, Surpuppa said:

So it will make my 3-pin fans quieter?

Depending on what you set them to yes.