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605125 2007-10-25 04:54:00 Hi, i just purchased a new Antec 900 case with four fans installed, i want to run the fans without a motherboard of a Dell/Foxconn Model PS-5201-7D. My friend said i might need to join two wires together from the PSU, if so what ones?

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mustang14a
mustang14a (11787)
605126 2007-10-25 04:55:00 Get molex adapters and connect them to the molex connectors.

Thats what theyre for.

Whats wrong with connecting them to the mobo fan headers?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
605127 2007-10-25 05:03:00 I'm new to this stuff what are mobo fan headers, are they the 4 pin connecters? mustang14a (11787)
605128 2007-10-25 05:09:00 I'm new to this stuff what are mobo fan headers, are they the 4 pin connecters?

Not to put too fine a point on it - but you should read your motherboard book first. This will tell you where to plug in your case fans. If you are really new to the inside of a computer case, a forum may not be the best place to go for instructions.
Deane F (8204)
605129 2007-10-25 05:11:00 Theyre labelled on the motherboard like chassis fan .

Theyre 3 pin . For fans .

The molex plugs are 4 pin yup, the wires/cables that are coming from the power supply .

But the only way you're going to connect these fans is if you connect them to the mobo (altho the motherboard may not have 4 of them) .

Or you'll have to buy adapters (if the fans you've got have 3 pins on one end of them, so its got the 3 pin socket on one end and a molex connector on the other end) . So, you can plug them into a molex plug/connector .
Speedy Gonzales (78)
605130 2007-10-25 05:11:00 Ah, at the moment i haven't got a motherboard, i want to run the fans directly of the psu. mustang14a (11787)
605131 2007-10-25 05:13:00 Sorry for the confusion mustang14a (11787)
605132 2007-10-25 05:13:00 Well, you CANT connect them directly to the PSU .

You connect them to the molex connectors coming from the PSU . Like I said in my previous post .
Speedy Gonzales (78)
605133 2007-10-25 05:16:00 ok, i have those connecters on psu i plugged them in and then turned on psu but nothing happened mustang14a (11787)
605134 2007-10-25 05:23:00 That depends on what kind of connection is on the end of those fans .

If theyre 3 pin then yup, you have to buy the socket 3 pin to molex adapter .

If you dont want to connect the fans to the motherboard .

Or if theyve got the molex connector, just plug them into the molex connectors coming from the PSU .
Speedy Gonzales (78)
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