Question Just bought a Thermalright frozen Notte 240 liquid cooler can you help read the replies plz

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Hi guys I’m pretty new to building pc’s I just installed a Thermalright frozen Notte 240 liquid cooler the fans work but the led’s don’t come on I’ve searched my motherboard for a thin connection but I can’t find one I don’t know if I’m just being stupid I have a rog strix Z370-H is there anything I can buy so they work thank you to anyone who can help
 
The cooler system needs a 3-pin ARGB header for power and control of lights. The PUMP and FAN motors work separately with their own cables.

Your mobo does NOT have any lighting headers, so you cannot get the lights in the cooler system to work that way. Your only option without changing the mobo would be to buy a third-party ARGB Controller that has standard 3-pin ARGB output ports. If you need help finding that, post back here.
 
The cooler system needs a 3-pin ARGB header for power and control of lights. The PUMP and FAN motors work separately with their own cables.

Your mobo does NOT have any lighting headers, so you cannot get the lights in the cooler system to work that way. Your only option without changing the mobo would be to buy a third-party ARGB Controller that has standard 3-pin ARGB output ports. If you need help finding that, post back here.
Yes please can you help me find one that’s compatible with my mobo please I appreciate the help
 
There are four basic styles of these things. ALL of these are ones that operate with virtually NO connection to your mobo, so which mobo you have does NOT matter.

One important factor, though is whether the Controller has "standard" connectors and sockets. There is ONE VERY common type of female connector on the end of a lighting cable from your fan - it looks like it had four holes in one line, but one is blocked off. I'm sure that is what YOUR cooling system fans have. So the Controller MUST have a male 3-pin connector to match that.

The first type often comes as part of a complete set of fans and a Controller for them that VERY often have non-standard connectors. You do not want that, and you do NOT need more fans!

The second type looks like a small box with buttons in the middle of a cable. One end of the cable plugs into a 4-pin Molex or a SATA power output from your PSU for power. The other cable end is a male 3-pin standard output to connect to your lights. The box in the middle typically has three buttons, one each for display types, for speed of changes, and for selecting colours. Each button can be pressed repeatedly to step through a sequence of choices. Once you set it, the display keeps doing that until you go back to choose something else, although "doing that" may be a pre-programmed sequence of lighting. NOTE that the cable and box is INSIDE your case, so you need access to it to make changes.

The third type is a lot like the second, but it also comes with a hand-held battery-powered remote control box with many buttons. All control is using that hand-held box and you do NOT need to access the interior of your case. Control still is manual, but making changes is easy. For both this and the type 2 above, ALL of the lighted devices you connect to its output will do exactly the same thing.

The last type is a box you mount inside your case with no buttons. It must plug into a PSU power output as others do, and it has many output sockets to plug in fan lighting cables. It ALSO has one cable that must go to a mobo standard USB2 header, and this is how the box gets instructions from your mobo. It MAY have a cable to connect to a mobo lighting header IF you have one, and that allows you to turn over control of the lights to your mobo's system. But you do NOT have such a mobo port, so you would NOT use that feature. SOME of these actually are part of a HUB system that really is two hubs in one unit - a HUB for fan MOTOR speed control, and a HUB/Controller for the fan LIGHTS. You do not need this type - your fan motors already are under mobo control. The way to control the lighting displays with this type is that it comes with a software app that you install on your system. You use that app via keyboard and screen to configure the lighting display as you choose, and it sends its instructions to the Controller box by that USB2 cable connection. This type of system is more expensive because it is more complicated and can generate many more complex displays, but is is really easy to use and adjust.

So, with that background, here are two examples. The first is "type 3" above.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXXJKPR...XW8JA8SDW&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1

As you can see, it it not very expensive, but it should work. I will note something about the user evaluations of this. MANY of the negative comments are about bad sizing of the connection ports on the Controller box so you can't plug things in, but that applies ONLY to some OTHER devices also sold on that Amazon page. This particular Controller has ONE simple male output with its pins free and clear to plug in ONE lighting cable. For your system, IF it comes with some sort of adapter or splitter to allow ALL your lights to connect to a single mobo output header, then that works. Otherwise you MIGHT need to get a lighting Splitter to connect all items to the one output of this Controller.

This one is of the last type

https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-pc-accessories/razer-chroma-addressable-rgb-controller

It has cables to connect to a power source from the PSU and a mobo USB2 header. Its software utility called Razer Synapse is used to set Controller options. Those include a lot of displays, but the unit is certainly more expensive. I could not find that unit on Amazon except in a combo package with other lights, but you should be able to find one from other sellers or from RAZER directly. I believe that ONE of the unique effects you can do with this makes use of its several output ports. It can manage each port separately, so it can create some types of colour sequences that run over all your lights in a sequence, rather than having all of them so the same thing in parallel.
 
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There are four basic styles of these things. ALL of these are ones that operate with virtually NO connection to your mobo, so which mobo you have does NOT matter.

One important factor, though is whether the Controller has "standard" connectors and sockets. There is ONE VERY common type of female connector on the end of a lighting cable from your fan - it looks like it had four holes in one line, but one is blocked off. I'm sure that is what YOUR cooling system fans have. So the Controller MUST have a male 3-pin connector to match that.

The first type often comes as part of a complete set of fans and a Controller for them that VERY often have non-standard connectors. You do not want that, and you do NOT need more fans!

The second type looks like a small box with buttons in the middle of a cable. One end of the cable plugs into a 4-pin Molex or a SATA power output from your PSU for power. The other cable end is a male 3-pin standard output to connect to your lights. The box in the middle typically has three buttons, one each for display types, for speed of changes, and for selecting colours. Each button can be pressed repeatedly to step through a sequence of choices. Once you set it, the display keeps doing that until you go back to choose something else, although "doing that" may be a pre-programmed sequence of lighting. NOTE that the cable and box is INSIDE your case, so you need access to it to make changes.

The third type is a lot like the second, but it also comes with a hand-held battery-powered remote control box with many buttons. All control is using that hand-held box and you do NOT need to access the interior of your case. Control still is manual, but making changes is easy. For both this and the type 2 above, ALL of the lighted devices you connect to its output will do exactly the same thing.

The last type is a box you mount inside your case with no buttons. It must plug into a PSU power output as others do, and it has many output sockets to plug in fan lighting cables. It ALSO has one cable that must go to a mobo standard USB2 header. and this is how the box gets instructions from your mobo. It MAY have a cable to connect to a mobo lighting header IF you have one, and that allows you to turn over control of the lights to your mobo's system. But you do NOT have such a mobo port, so you would NOT use the feature. SOME of these actually are part of a HUB system that really is two hubs in one unit - a HUB for fan MOTOR speed control, and a HUB/Controller for the fan LIGHTS. You do not need this type - your fan motors already are under mobo control. The way to control the lighting displays with this type is that it comes with a software app that you install on your system. You use that app via keyboard and screen to configure the lighting display as you choose, and it sends its instructions to the Controller box by that USB2 cable connection. This type of system is more expensive becasue it is more complicated and can generate many more complex displays, but is is really easy to use and adjust.

So, with that background, here are two examples. The first is "type 3" above.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXXJKPR...XW8JA8SDW&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1

As you can see, it it not very expensive, but it should work. I will note something about the user evaluations of this. MANY of the negative comments are about bad sizing of the connection ports on the Controller box so you can't plug things in, but that applies ONLY to some OTHER devices also sold on that Amazon page. This particular Controller has ONE simple male output with its pins free and clear to plug in ONE lighting cable. For your system, IF it comes with some sort of adapter or splitter to allow ALL your lights to connect to a single mobo output header, then that works. Otherwise you MIGHT need to get a lighting Splitter to connect all items to the one output of this Controller.

This one is of the last type

https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-pc-accessories/razer-chroma-addressable-rgb-controller

It has cables to connect to a power source from the PSU and a mobo USB2 header. Its software utility called Razer Synapse is used to set Controller options. Those include a lot of displays, but the unit is certainly more expensive. I could not find that unit on Amazon except in a combo package with other lights, but you should be able to find one from other sellers or from RAZER directly. I believe that ONE of the unique effeects you can do with this makes use of its several output ports. It can manage each port separately, so it can create some types of colour sequences that run over all your lights in a sequence, rather than having all of them so the same thing in parallel.
Thank you this has helped a lot
 

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