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i am building a pc this summer and I need to know if the fans that come pre installed in the case can be connected to the motherboard.
i am getting a thermaltake view 31 rgb which comes with 3 pre installed 140mm fans and i am getting a deepcool captain 120ex aio liquid cooler, and a gigabyte z370p d3 will that motherboard be able to support all of those fans and will i be able to connect them all to the motherboard?
 
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You should not need extra accessories.

The three Riing 14 RGB LED fans with the case should also come with a small controller module. It has one cable to connect to a single mobo SYS_FAN header that uses PWM Mode to control its fans. All the power for these three fans comes from the mobo header and that is sufficient. Control of the LED displays is by using buttons on the controller. Major control of the speed of those fans is done by the mobo header using its normal automatic function, although the fan controller module allows you to set either of two speed ranges. So, that uses one mobo SYS_FAN header.

The Deepcool Captain 120 AIO cooling system requires two mobo headers. The actual pump unit must plug into the CPU_FAN header. The...
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Get a SATA powered fan hub for your case fans , then there will be no issues hooking up the pump and cooler fan to the board.

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How do those work
 
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You should not need extra accessories.

The three Riing 14 RGB LED fans with the case should also come with a small controller module. It has one cable to connect to a single mobo SYS_FAN header that uses PWM Mode to control its fans. All the power for these three fans comes from the mobo header and that is sufficient. Control of the LED displays is by using buttons on the controller. Major control of the speed of those fans is done by the mobo header using its normal automatic function, although the fan controller module allows you to set either of two speed ranges. So, that uses one mobo SYS_FAN header.

The Deepcool Captain 120 AIO cooling system requires two mobo headers. The actual pump unit must plug into the CPU_FAN header. The fan in the radiator plugs into another, so you should plug it into a second SYS_FAN header.

Here are the only two little "trick" parts. Go into BIOS Setup. For each of the SYS_FAN headers, ensure they are set to use PWM Mode. Now, a mobo has usually two main temperature sensors. One is already inside the CPU chip and it is normally used to guide the fan that cools the CPU. In your case, the fan on the Radiator of the AIO system will be plugged into a SYS_FANn header. So, whichever header that fan is plugged into, make sure that header is set to use the CPU temperature sensor. The other header that is used for the group of three case vent fans should be set, instead, to use the temp sensor built into the mobo.

This uses the CPU and and two SYS_FAN headers, leaving one SYS_FAN header unused. The three case fans all are on one SYS_FAN header via the special controller box provided with them.
 
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