Need advice on Fan Setup

swilds

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Jul 5, 2016
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The following parts are to be delivered next week:

Phanteks P400 Case (comes with 1 front and 1 rear 120mm fan)

MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X

Intel Core i5-6600K

ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000

(2) Phanteks PH-F140SP 140mm Premier Case Fans

Intel SSD 600p Series (256GB, M.2 2280 80mm NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4

CRYORIG H7 Tower Cooler

EVGA 650 BQ 110-BQ-0650-V1 80+ BRONZE 650W Semi Modular PSU

I ordered the case without the fan controller because I wanted to software control the fans anyway. The case comes with two 120mm fans, 1 in front and 1 in rear. I want to put the two 140mm fans in front and 1 120mm in the back and 1 120mm in the top. I have two 4 pin Y splitters just in case. The CPU cooler will be plugged into the CPU1 header and I still have CPU2 header available along with 3 other system 4 pin headers. Would it be advisable to plug the two 140mm fans from the front into the CPU2 header with the Y splitter or 1 into the CPU1 and 1 into the system header near the CPU2 header. The other two system headers are located 1 in the middle of the board and 1 at the bottom of the board near the audio headers. I will probably use a Y splitter on the header in the middle of the board for the two rear 120mm fans.

I need help with this configuration so I'm not trying to figure it out for hours.Thanks.
 
Solution
I'd connect the case fans as follows:
Rear 120mm -> SYS_FAN1
2x Front 140mm with Y-splitter -> SYS_FAN2
Top 120mm -> SYS_FAN3

CPU_FAN2 is reserved only for CPU coolers. Don't plug your case fans in there.

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