Too many fans for motherboard? Halp?

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Hey guys, I am going to build a PC soon and the case I'm getting is the Azza hurrican 2000 and my mobo is MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard. The Azza has 8 fans and I was wondering how I would set it up so all fans would run. 2 of the fans would would be corsair link, so I don't know what I should do.

Full build: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/22vortex22/saved/kbcgXL

Hopefully you can help?
 
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After reading some reviews, it looks like most of the fans use molex, so they cannot be plugged into the motherboard, with the exception of the front two fans. The top two fans have an integrated fan speed controller. I think the front two fans will reach the motherboard, but you might wanna pick up 2 3-pin extension cables to be safe (they cant be more than a couple dollars each)
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similar to my azza case the lower fans and the other case fans were all linked via 2 splitters that linked to the light on off and the fan high/low.

not sure if that has this like my azza full tower but it may, that ran off of only one molex so it wont use any headers .

 
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Plug what you can onto the motherboard. Your power supply comes with 8, 4-pin molex cables. Plug what peripherals in that you have, then use the remaining to plug your fans into. The fans should come with 4-pin molex connectors.
 
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The 2 fans on the H100i connect directly to the pump, so those 2 will not need to go on the motherboard headers. As for the other fans, you can buy a Y adapter that allows 2 fans to be plugged into a single fan header on the motherboard. If you ever run out of fan headers, you can always plug the fans directly into the power supply, however they will run at full speed unless you get a low noise adapter.

One question about your case... Where are you going to mount the h100i? It looks like the only dual 120mm fan mounts are in the front of the case, and the drive cages arent removeable.
 
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On the top? It allows a 360mm rad
 
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top should house up to a 360 or 480mm rad just like my azza.

i managed to fit 2 220mms up there which is longer than a single 480 with some work
 
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Oh I see it now, sorry about that :D
 
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But mainly what I'm asking, is will I have all the cables needed to complete this or do I need to plan on buying some extra cables for fans. If I'm thinking correctly, there should be enough but I want to make sure.
 
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After reading some reviews, it looks like most of the fans use molex, so they cannot be plugged into the motherboard, with the exception of the front two fans. The top two fans have an integrated fan speed controller. I think the front two fans will reach the motherboard, but you might wanna pick up 2 3-pin extension cables to be safe (they cant be more than a couple dollars each)
 
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