Hi everybody,
I have a strange problem. I have recently mounted a new desktop with new hardware (Geforce GTX 1060 graphic card, FX-8350 cpu, 32gb ram, 750gb SSD sata drive) and to make it looking good I installed a 2 led strip kit powered with a molex cable. After that I installed 2 new fans (for a total of 4 in the case) but since my motherboard only has two 3-pin outputs I bought a molex-to-3x-3pin splitter and I plugged it on the same molex cable than the led strip kit in order to power the two new fans.
The problem is that when I turn on the led strip the fan speed (of the two new ones plugged in the same molex cable than the strips) goes down very much and if I boot the computer with everything turned on it has to boot twice before to finally reach Windows login (like something is draining too much power). Before I installed the fan splitter it was working just fine (with the led kit only).
I have a corsair 650W psu, so it should be more than enough to power some led strips and a couple of fans. Maybe this single molex output is not powerful enough to power both the led strips and the fans? Should I use a 3pin-to-3pin splitter for the fans instead of the molex-to-3pin? Because it is clear that they cannot work at the same time at full capability with this connection set up (for some reason that I don't understand).
Any idea someone?
I have a strange problem. I have recently mounted a new desktop with new hardware (Geforce GTX 1060 graphic card, FX-8350 cpu, 32gb ram, 750gb SSD sata drive) and to make it looking good I installed a 2 led strip kit powered with a molex cable. After that I installed 2 new fans (for a total of 4 in the case) but since my motherboard only has two 3-pin outputs I bought a molex-to-3x-3pin splitter and I plugged it on the same molex cable than the led strip kit in order to power the two new fans.
The problem is that when I turn on the led strip the fan speed (of the two new ones plugged in the same molex cable than the strips) goes down very much and if I boot the computer with everything turned on it has to boot twice before to finally reach Windows login (like something is draining too much power). Before I installed the fan splitter it was working just fine (with the led kit only).
I have a corsair 650W psu, so it should be more than enough to power some led strips and a couple of fans. Maybe this single molex output is not powerful enough to power both the led strips and the fans? Should I use a 3pin-to-3pin splitter for the fans instead of the molex-to-3pin? Because it is clear that they cannot work at the same time at full capability with this connection set up (for some reason that I don't understand).
Any idea someone?
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