CPU Case Fans

AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

I have a case fan which I want to place in my cabinet . I hv corsair VS550 psu and Gigabyte B85 motherboard . I am not sure where to connect the power pin of the case fan . Its a 3 pin connector .
Please help as I am a newbie in this .

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

You should have a few fan headers on your motherboard to connect to, the manual will show where they are on your specific model

AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

Features says it has 3 X system fans header . I cant find them . I read the manual . Its not there .

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

Can you give me a model number for the motherboard? or even a picture of it and the fan connector

AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

Gigabyte B85HD3 is the motherboard . http://www.gigabyte.in/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4566#ov

tsuneo6 · Aug 28, 2014

I asume this is your motherboard?
http://www.imagebam.com/image/1b1a32347846548

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

Ok so the one above the CPU is going to be used by the CPU fan, there should be the one on the right side of the board beneath the 24 PIN power connector (labelled sys fan 3) that you can use, it is 4 pin but 3 pin can connect (there is a notch so it will only install one way) the 4th pin is for speed feedback so will be fine to run without it

tsuneo6 · Aug 28, 2014

the 3th one is between your RAM slots and the heatsink that says gigabyte

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

tsuneo6 :

This is the same mobo and has sysfan 1+2 circled, good find tsuneo6

tsuneo6 · Aug 28, 2014

SU11YBEAR :

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AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

Thank you so much . I noticed these are four pins connector . Can I plug in my 3 pin connector ?

tsuneo6 · Aug 28, 2014

yes, you can

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

See my previous note about 4 pins, will work fine the 4 pins are just for speed control, yours will probably run at 100%

tsuneo6 · Aug 28, 2014

SU11YBEAR :

unless his mobo has some fan controll software. my fans are all 3 pin(except for the CPU fan ofc) and they do have speedcontroll

AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

Thank you for your help ..

AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

One more question , I hv a spare sunbeam cpu cooler which I cannot use but has a 120 mm fan . Can I put this fan in my cabinet ? This is the product http://www.sunbeamtech.com/PRODUCTS/cooler/Core-ContactFreezer.html

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

Depends on the fan mounting method but in 90%+ of cases the fan will be a standard one and should be ok

AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

Mounting method ? I didn't get you . It gets fixed at the rear . No issues there . I am asking considering the power consumption etc. Is it different from case fans because I got it with CPU cooler ? Can I put its 3 pin connector to the slots mentioned above (sys fan 1 2 3 )?

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

The issue with CPU fans is sometimes they have custom mounts (not standard) to attach to the cooler, if you can mount it then its not an issue, power consumption is not going to be an issue, it can be connected to any of the sys fan ports and should not be an issue, jsut make sure whatever one is on the CPU is connected to the CPU fan ports

AbhishekDY · Aug 28, 2014

Thanks for the reply . Ok I got what I wanted .

SU11YBEAR · Aug 28, 2014

Happy to help

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