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I asked a question before about motherboards and a person who replied said "a majority of motherboards don't throttle 3-pin fans off the sysfans on the board. So you'll be running those fans at full speed 100% of the time. Easiest fix is to get a pwm hub(shown below) and run all your headers to that and connect that to your CPUFAN pins. That way you can control all your fans off of that header and they can ramp respectively." This was not the original question asked but this person brought up a very good point. The fans I will be using are 3 pin headers and the motherboard will be a 4 pin. I know you can plug a 3 pin header into 4 pins though as the person above said, they will be running at 100% all the time. This is where I begin to get confused, he said "run all your headers to that and connect that to your CPUFAN pins". Would the CPU fan pins not be taken up by the CPU cooler? An alternative I can think of is plugging the "pwm hub" directly into the psu or on of the chasis/system fan headers but would running 3 fans off one fan header not provide enough power? Back to plugging into the psu, from what I understand, I need to get a molex adapter and plug that into the psu. Below I am going to attempt to illustrate what I am saying.
(PSU)---->(Molex cable into psu)----> (pwm hub into molex cable)----> (Case fans into pwm hub)
The overall question at hand is, is the illustration above the correct order I need? Also, assuming that illustration was correct, will this set up allow the case fans to adjust fan speed? Should I plug it into the psu or a different fan header?
I asked a question before about motherboards and a person who replied said "a majority of motherboards don't throttle 3-pin fans off the sysfans on the board. So you'll be running those fans at full speed 100% of the time. Easiest fix is to get a pwm hub(shown below) and run all your headers to that and connect that to your CPUFAN pins. That way you can control all your fans off of that header and they can ramp respectively." This was not the original question asked but this person brought up a very good point. The fans I will be using are 3 pin headers and the motherboard will be a 4 pin. I know you can plug a 3 pin header into 4 pins though as the person above said, they will be running at 100% all the time. This is where I begin to get confused, he said "run all your headers to that and connect that to your CPUFAN pins". Would the CPU fan pins not be taken up by the CPU cooler? An alternative I can think of is plugging the "pwm hub" directly into the psu or on of the chasis/system fan headers but would running 3 fans off one fan header not provide enough power? Back to plugging into the psu, from what I understand, I need to get a molex adapter and plug that into the psu. Below I am going to attempt to illustrate what I am saying.
(PSU)---->(Molex cable into psu)----> (pwm hub into molex cable)----> (Case fans into pwm hub)
The overall question at hand is, is the illustration above the correct order I need? Also, assuming that illustration was correct, will this set up allow the case fans to adjust fan speed? Should I plug it into the psu or a different fan header?
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