Can you use molex fans with a 3/4 pin plug?

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RobotLizard

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My case has a fan with a 4 pin molex plug, with two pins in it. (4 spaces, with pins in two). My motherboard, however, has two connectors - one is 3 pin, one is 4 pin, can I use the fan in those connectors in any way? Or is there another way I can without buying adapters or new fans?
 
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Does your PSU have molex connectors? The accessory fan that you're talking about needs to be powered by the PSU, not your motherboard.
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RobotLizard

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Now I feel stupid, i never knew that, thanks mate!!

 
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Use your molex connectors on your PSU as they said previous. However, if your fan is a PWM model then you should have a 3/4 pin as well as the molex. Then you would use the molex from the PSU and then the 3/4 pin to connect to a Mobo header.
 
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