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Newbie Chassis Fan / Mobo question (Crosshair Form V)

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Hi,


First time poster 😄

I'm looking for some advice on my case fans connecting to my newly purchased crosshair formula V motherboard.

At the moment I have 2 x 92mm Front intake Fans (2pin connections) + one rear 120mm fan again with 2 pin connection's going directly into my PSU (be quiet dark power 750).

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The only fan that plugs directly onto the motherboard is my CPU fan.

My question is should I be connecting my case fans to the motherboard directly for more efficient cooling / monitoring, if so do I need to purchase adapters of somekind ? or a fan controller.

any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers.
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Cyrekk
Level 10
With 2 pin connectors, it really shouldn't make a difference. It takes 3 pins to monitor the speed, and 4 pin to control the speed via PWM.
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chrsplmr
Level 18
Finally, thnx Ckk, I couldn't come up with a straight simple answer to that from anywhere. hahaa
As simple as 2,3,4...hahahahhaa..thnx.

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never use the long explaination that you all spent
years learning, SOME will simply never need or use it.
hahahah....2,3,4.

Retired
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Thanks for the info saved me a lot of grief! cheers.

Which leads me onto my second question 😉 In your opinions would it be worth changing the fans over to 4 pin versions that could be monitored via the main board and the power management features ?

I don't really have any issues with temp at the moment , but would like to run the setup as efficiently as possible.

Is this something i should be looking at ?

Thanks again.

TechJackass88
Level 7
4 Pin is overkill, mainly it's for a CPU fan, rest can be monitored and volt controlled, there are excelent control panels that do just that, Zalman ZN-MFC2 or Scythe KM02-BK are examples, there are many more.
I prefer stand alone solutions, because they will beep and warn me if fan failed or underperforming.
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speed
Level 12
Are the fans to loud? Are your temp ok? If fans are not to loud and temps are good let it ride just the way it is.

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Area_66
Level 11
Honestly you don't have too much air flow in that case , I will not try to reduce it ....