Connect the fan to the power supply.
Multiple pc fan connector.
So the motherboard asus b85m gamer i chose has only one fan header.
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Locate any empty 4 plug power connector coming from the power supply and plug the fan into the connector.
If you connect the 4 pin fan connector to a 3 pin header then the fan will run at maximum rpm.
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So i am assembling my pc for the first time and came in a bit of a glitch.
Which obviously isn t enough and the case i chose circle cc830 has 5 fans.
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The fan connector will have two guides 1 and these will need to line up with the tab 2 that is on the motherboard fan header.
A four pin connector is a little different than the three pin connector since it has the extra fourth wire used for controlling and sending signals to the fan which likely has a chip on it that tells it to slow down or speed up in addition to the other wires the three pin connector has.
I read a few threads and i understood that i can connect two fans to one.