How to connect the fans

[Jose Luis Lopes]

Building my new rig I found this case I did like, Zalman Z3 Plus
It has 1 front fan, 2 top and 1 on the back, all pre installed, and I was thinking on putting another on the front to stay with 2 intake and 3 outtake fans. SO, where should I connect all of this fans? I picked the MSI Z97 gaming 5 that has 2x4 pin and 3x4 pin connection to fans.. and I have 6 fans with the CPU cooler. Is there any adapter I should get? Forget about the extra fan altogether? please help

 

[cliffro]

There are 4 pin splitters available.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1AVSC_enUS462US466&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=4+pin+fan+splitter&newwindow=1&tbm=shop

 

[burdenbound]

You can go with a fan header splitter like mentioned above, or get a 4 pin molex to multi fan connector. Connects directly to your PSU instead of the motherboard. You won't have any fan control or speed readings but for the most part normal case fans just need to be powered.

Something similar to this (although this one is a PWM splitter which can control fan speeds. You get the general idea though) http://www.amazon.com/Splitter-Molex-headers-CONNECT-MULTIPLE/dp/B009D3HV1Q .

 

[Jose Luis Lopes]

Ok, thanks for the answers, I will go with the splitter since I can hide the 2 front fans' cables behind the HDDs tray