How Do I Connect My Fans To My PSU?

[chrisgill369]

Hello,

I got my case yesterday and it has a PSU and 3 fans. That is all i have at the moment. I am wondering ... how do i connect the fans to the PSU. I think i now how to do it but just want to make sure.

Each of the fans has two plug things....1 has 4 pins the other has 4 holes. Now do i just plug these straight into the same plugs on the PSU?

Thanks for any help.
- Chris

 

[jaksback]

they are called molex connectors and yes you can plug them to the psu, or get an adapter and attach them to the mobo.

 

[Hinrichisgod]

You can also plug each fan into another fan, making it possible to have as many as your case and psu will let you.

 

[chrisgill369]

so do both of the molex connectors have to be plugged into another molex connetctor....so it goes round in a circle from psu to fan to fan to fan to psu?

coz that way i wont use up as many of the molex connectors on the psu coz i guess they are needed for other things aswell.

 

[chrisgill369]

well i dont think it goes back into the psu as there are no molex connectors on the psu that will fit into the loose fan molex.

So what i have is...

PSU --> Fan 1 --> Fan 2 --> Fan 3 --> losse molex

Does this seem right

 

[jaksback]

yes, thats right, you just won't get rpm readings from any type of fan speed monitoring prog. readings will only come from the ones hooked to mobo.

 

[chrisgill369]

Well at the moment they are daisy chained but when i find out if i have any free molex on the psu i will use them instead. The other thing is that two of the fans are temp controlled and have little green sensor things...will these still have affect when daisy cheained?

 

[compy]

they should since all they need is power to opperate from if i'm not seriously misstaken.

 

[Gl\l0m!$h]

they should yes but u wont be able to get any speed readings or anything

 

[chrisgill369]

Ok so i think i will plug the two temp controlled fans into the mobo if there is a place for them to go. and all there other fans will be plugged into there own molex on the psu