How many fan headers does the asus maxiumus vii hero have?

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How many fan headers does the asus maxiumus vii hero have and are these 4 pin or 3 pin?
Also, if i have 3 fans, is there an adapter that can make it use only one of the fan sockets on the motherboard?
 
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Those are connected to the PSU through a hub, but don't have a controller. If you use those, your fans are going to be maxed out full-time. If you don't care about noise or control, use the case fan leads. If you want to be able to control them, you'll need to connect them to the mobo or install an aftermarket fan controller.
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They are 3 corsair af120's quiet edition and a af140 quiet edition, not sure if they are PWM or not. But will they plug in ok? Also if plugged into the motherboard without the PWM, does that mean they will be running at 12v always?
 
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An adapter isn't necessary per se - you can plug a 3-pin fan into the 4-pin chassis fan headers and they'll work just fine through voltage control. A fan splitter, on the other hand, would be necessary. However, if these are 3-pin fans, depending on their power requirements you might be able to run three fans off one header, but it's not a great idea. Better to get extenders and plug each one into it's own header, or at least limit the number to two on a single header.

If they're PWM fans and jamesellis wants to run them all off a PWM header, Akasa makes a PWM splitter that would work. It's powered from the PSU and controlled from the header. Won't work for 3-pin fans though - they'll just run at 100% all the time.
 
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They'll work just fine plugged into the chassis fan headers. The plugs themselves will just occupy 3 of the 4 pins on the header. You can use AI Suite's Fan Xpert to control the speeds through voltage adjustment. I've got that board and currently have 4-pin PWM and 3-pin non-PWM fans running, as well as the PWM fans on my CPU cooler that are connected to the CPU headers.
 
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The case I'm using is the NZXT H440, which has a fan splitter for about 8 fans at the back powered by the psu, so would i just be better to use this?
 
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Also to add to my previous message, ill be running os x.
 
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Those are connected to the PSU through a hub, but don't have a controller. If you use those, your fans are going to be maxed out full-time. If you don't care about noise or control, use the case fan leads. If you want to be able to control them, you'll need to connect them to the mobo or install an aftermarket fan controller.
 
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