SilverStone Primera PM01 3 front fans - how to plug these in?

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NigelTufnel11

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I know this is extremely dumb but it's my first ever build. Everything else is set up and working fine, but I see no way to hook up the 3 intake fans in the front of the case to my motherboard, at least not with the cables that came with the case.
 
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Got it working. This case comes with all the fans routed to a central hub, and that hub is powered by a molex connection. The LED lights for all the fans and the rest of the case interior are all routed together as well, and are powered through a 2nd molex connection.

I had no idea what to do with the 2 empty molex plugs at first, because I had no idea what they were and didn't see any cables that would match their sockets. Thankfully my PSU came with 1 cable set that connects it to molex, guess I just didn't notice that set when I was sorting through cables during setup.

Now I have the fans connected to the PSU, but not the motherboard. Based on what I've read, there's no real benefit to connecting molex to a motherboard because it...
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NigelTufnel11

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Got it working. This case comes with all the fans routed to a central hub, and that hub is powered by a molex connection. The LED lights for all the fans and the rest of the case interior are all routed together as well, and are powered through a 2nd molex connection.

I had no idea what to do with the 2 empty molex plugs at first, because I had no idea what they were and didn't see any cables that would match their sockets. Thankfully my PSU came with 1 cable set that connects it to molex, guess I just didn't notice that set when I was sorting through cables during setup.

Now I have the fans connected to the PSU, but not the motherboard. Based on what I've read, there's no real benefit to connecting molex to a motherboard because it won't be able to vary fan speeds, and these fans are clearly visible from outside the case so I don't really need confirmation that they're working properly.
 
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Curlev

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Great that you got it to work:D

The benefit of connecting the fans to the motherboard fan headers is that you are in most cases able to control the speed of the fans, for that u are using the 3 pin cables from the fans that are connected to the hub (no molex is needed). But if u connect them directly to that fan hub they are spinning at their max all the time.

 
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