How to get more chassis fan slots on motherboard?

02JamieUK

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Hi,

My computer has 2 fans one at the front and one at the back however this is simply not enough to keep my cpu cool. Despite my CPU fan I brought (specs at bottom of page) my CPU still gets incredibly hot to like 70 - 80 degrees when playing the likes of battlefield, dayz and H1Z1. I have two more chassis fan slots on my cpu case both next to each other at the top so I was going to buy 2 more fans to slot in there.

Is there any BETTER alternative to using this http://www.ebuyer.com/515105-6in-tx3-fan-power-splitter-cable-tx3splitter to add more chassis fan slots on to the motherboard? I already have one but I'll need to purchase two more for two more fans and It's going to generate a long link of stupid wires. Is there any better alternative as my motherboard only has 1 chassis fan slot >.< even one of them with more heads or something... I literally can't find anything.

FULL PC SPECS:

Windows 8.1 64bit

MSI R9 280 GAMING 3GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI Dual Mini DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card

AMD FX-8350 4GHz Socket AM3+ 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor

Carbide Series SPEC-01 BLUE LED Mid Tower Gaming Case

Corsair AF120 LED Blue Quiet Edition High Airflow 120mm Fan

Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Socket AM3+ 8 Channel HD Audio mATX Motherboard

Corsair CSM 650W Semi Modular 80+ Gold Power Supply

WD 1TB Blue Desktop Drive 3.5" SATA-III 7200RPM 64MB

ASUS DRW-24F1ST Internal DVD±ReWriter 24X - OEM

Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600mhz Vengeance Memory Module CL9 1.5V Non-ECC Unbuffered X 2

Using Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Fan Cooler

 
By fan slots are you referring to the headers on the motherboard or are you talking about something else? If you mean the headers on the motherboard, then there are hubs that you can purchase that will plug into the header on the motherboard and will supply you with additional headers on the hub itself.
 


I'm referring to the Chassis fan socket bit on a motherboard that you plug the chassis fan into. I'm currently using this http://www.ebuyer.com/515105-6in-tx3-fan-power-splitter-cable-tx3splitter but was wondering if there was anything more efficient instead of plugging lots of these on each other as I only have one chassis fan slot on my motherboard.
 


Well, unfortunately if you PWM capabilities and you wanted to utilize them then there isn't really a better way unless you have room for a bigger motherboard that has more headers. However, if you don't care or don't have the PWM funtion then you can get after market fans that have 4 pin molex connectors that hook directly up to your power supply. This would be the easiest and most efficient way to do this.
 


That motherboard will be able to handle that CPU, ignore the troll.