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Hamface55
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Hello, 

 

So I just got my case in and was looking at the fans. All the fans connect to 1 cable. The end of the cable is a molex though. Do I need to get an adapter for the molex to a type of fan header so it will work in my mobo? My motherboard is the Asrock b450 pro. Here is a pic of the cable.

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Those fans plug directly into a molex connector from your PSU.

There looks to be an adapter that takes the fan connectors and converts that to Molex, see if those come apart at all.

 

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nah just plug it to a molex cable from the power supply. If you want fan speed control you shouldnt use an adapter like this in the first place.

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Those fans plug directly into a molex connector from your PSU.

There looks to be an adapter that takes the fan connectors and converts that to Molex, see if those come apart at all.

 

-Moved to Air Cooling-

If I unplug them from the molex and put them into the mobo will it still work? I hope I can because they are RGB fans and I dont see how I would control it unless it is in the mobo. The case I got was the Masterbox lite 5 RGB btw.

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Just now, Hamface55 said:

If I unplug them from the molex and put them into the mobo will it still work? I hope I can because they are RGB fans and I dont see how I would control it unless it is in the mobo. The case I got was the Masterbox lite 5 RGB btw.

It should work

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