Question Fan controller in the Hummer TGM case ?

[ggelli2014]

Hi everybody,

I have a question about the fan controller of this case

which I do not know how to connect. Here are some pictures:

There are four fans. Each one is conncted to the controller via one of the four connectors on the right, the fan cable continues beyond the fan controller and at the end there is this 3 pin connector (one for each fan, I will call them F1, F2, F3, F4):

Then there is this other cable conncted to the top left side of the controller

I will call it A (it has three little holes, two of them are close and the other one is more far).

I wanted to ask whether:
1) I should just plug a sata cable from the power supply to the bottom of the controller; or
2) Do 1) and then connect F1, F2, F3, F4 to the motherboard; or
3) Do 1) and 2) and then connect A to the motherboard; or
4) Do 1) and connect just A to the mother board;

and also where I am supposed to plug F1, F2, F3, F4, A on the motherboard which is an ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F

Thanks a lot in advance and sorry for the silly question but I have never done this before.

 

[Paperdoc]

The fans in that case are called ARGB Fans. That means the each fan is really two devices in one unit: a fan MOTOR, and some LIGHTS in the frame. For this the fan has TWO cables, and all of these are routed to that Controller board. So for 4 fans, eight cables to the board.

At the board on the RIGHT in your photo there are four female plugs connected to output ports. Your second photo appears to show one end of an extension cord from each of those board ports. Each ends in a male connector (as shown in the photo) that connects to the lighting cable at each fan. The end has three pins but looks like it had 4 with one missing. These are for the LIGHTS in the fans. On the left side of the board are four male output ports and cables with smaller female connectors with three holes. These are for the fan motors.

The cable shown in your third photo (you say it's connected to the board) has two connectors on its end. You use ONE of those ONLY IF your mobo has a ARGB header. This feature is not mentioned in the info on the web page. NORMALLY you get to alter the lighting displays of the fans by using the FAN control button on the top left of your case. For that the board has a cable from its upper right corner labelled LED SW that goes up the case top front. But IF your mobo also has a 3-pin ARGB header (NOT a 4-pin plain RGB header), you can connect that two-headed cable to that header. Such headers come in one of two types, and you use whichever cable end works for your mobo header. IF you can do that, then what they don't tell you is that, when you are running, you can go to that case FAN button and hold it down for about 5 sec. Then it will switch over to having the mobo header ARGB signal take control of your fan lights. In that case you then use the software utility tool that came with your mobo to control the lighting displays.

At the bottom of the control board you plug in a SATA power output from your PSU to supply power to that boards and the fans.

What you do not show (and no mention in the info on the case web page) is whether there is another cable that comes from that control board with a 3- or 4-hole connector to go to a mobo fan header. There is NO clear indication how that system controls the SPEED of the fan motors. Often that is done by a connection to another case front button (sometimes the Reboot button) that can manually set the fan speeds. Otherwise there may be a connection (via a cable you have not shown) from the controller board to a mobo fan header to pick up the mobo's fan control signals. Or possibly this system has NO fan motor speed control, and they all just run a full speed always. IF you have a case MANUAL with instructions of these matters (not shown on the web pages), look for details on fan speeds control.