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Question Can I install Deepcool FC120 3 in 1 ARGB fans as 2 front intake fans and 1 rear exhaust fan?

Apr 1, 2024
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I have a Deepcool Matrexx 40 3FS case. It comes with 3 LED fans, 2 fans on the front side of the case working as front intake and 1 fan on the backside of the case working as rear exhaust, whose lighting colour can't be changed. So I want to buy Deepcool FC120 3 in 1 ARGB fans to replace those fans, so that I can change the lighting colour, but after watching videos of the fan on youtube, I think that the daisy chaining cable's length is too short so I won't be able to bring a daisy chaining cable from a fan on the front side of the case to the backside of the case. I know that an extension cable is given inside the package, but will the length of the cable still be too short to do that even after connecting the extension cable?

I have seen many videos of those fans on youtube but no video installed those fans like that, so that some fans are on the front side of the case and some fans are on the backside of the case. In all of the videos either all of the fans are on the same side of the case, or some of the fans are on front side of the case and the rest are on the left or top side of the case.

Can I install those fans like that so that 2 fans are at the frontside and 1 fan is at the backside, in that case model? Or will the cable be too short to do that?
 
(Copy and pasted from the official website for the case) "With support for up to six 120mm or four 140mm cooling fans and also radiators up to 280mm installed on top or in front, the MATREXX 40 3FS provides ample cooling configurations."

You would have to measure the cable to really know.
 
IF you find the cables to be too short I can suggest two options BOTH of which will require talking to Tech Support at Deepcool. This is because the cables feeding those fans are non-standard, so you cannot use any common extension cord. Deepcool MAY be able to supply an extra-long cable for the daisy-chain connection from one fan to another. OR they MAY be able to supply an extra one of their regular FIRST cable that goes from a standard mobo header to the first fan in the daisy chain. With that you could connect the rear fan to a second mobo fan header, instead of to one of the front fans.