What type of fan connection is this...? 4pin..O_o...

[hwing91]

I recently purchased a fan to mount on my heatsink with zipties, and when I purchased the fan, it said in the description (4 pin standard case cooling) so i assumed a molex or something...to my suprise its something i've never seen before.

It's even different from the old nvidia fan's 4-pin. Any ideas how I could get this connected and running? Anything to buy, an adapter or splitter so I can use this? I've tried searching for one but I don't know what the hell to look for .... I'm pretty sure my mobo and PSU doesn't have a connector that will work with this.

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/6452/06172010935.jpg

Is a link to the picture. Thanks! The one I just purchased is the big weird connector (the right one). The fan to the left is my old GPU's (8800GT)'s stock fans connector.

 

[i4yue]

just plug it into a fan slot on your mobo. i believe the reason that its a four pin instead of a three is because you can connect that onto your cpu heatsink and connect that into the cpu fan slot on your mobo.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131642

theres a pic of a random mobo from newegg if you zoom in on the pic you'll see that there are a quite a few case, cpu, and psu fan connections that are all 4pin. the old fan connections are all 3 pin...i really dunno why but i think that the extra pin allows you to control your fan speeds better?

 

[wolfram23]

I think that's called a pwm fan... basically what i4yue said. Should be able to plug into your motherboard. There should also be molex to 4 pin adapters.

 

[i4yue]

if you only have 3pin connectors on your mobo just throw it in anyways it'll still work

 

[foscooter]

But you might get mobo warnings about fan speeds too low. You may be able to turn it off in BIOS.

I recently purchased a fan to mount on my heatsink with zipties...

Zipties? REALLY?! Sounds cheeky to me! What fan, and what motherboard? Get something meant for your machine.