[SOLVED] What is this fan splitter or what ?

[kenzi03]

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Can anyone explain to me, what is this? There is nothing in case manual. Is this some kind of fan splitter or what?

 

[Koekieezz]

That's a fan hub

 

[kenzi03]

That's a fan hub

Why is there 8x4pin and 4x3pin?

 

[Unolocogringo]

The 4x 3 pins are for regular 3 pin case fans.
You have 2 led light strip connectors.
7x 6 pin led fan connectors.
One fan connector to attach to motherboard PC PWM data. looks like 4 pin fan connector on both ends. to control fan speeds by motherboard.
One connector for case LED/FAN switch to manually change fan color.

 

[Paperdoc]

Tell us what case maker and exact model. I've seen one something like that before. It is a central Hub to control both fan motors and the RGB lights in the fan frames, and it is designed for use with particular fnas that use some non-standard fans with lights. If we wknow where that case came from, maybe we can find its manual and advise.

 

[kenzi03]

Tell us what case maker and exact model. I've seen one something like that before. It is a central Hub to control both fan motors and the RGB lights in the fan frames, and it is designed for use with particular fnas that use some non-standard fans with lights. If we wknow where that case came from, maybe we can find its manual and advise.

Case is ms titan pro 2, and there is nothing in the manual about this.

 

[Paperdoc]

Quite right - the manual available on-line for this is useless. The items I have seen that are similar are used by Aerocool, and are slightly different from yours. The reply above from Unolocogringo is pretty much correct, with a small adjustment. The things you called "4-pin " ports are actually 6-pin as he said, but there are 8 of them, not 7. These are for pluging in the 6-pin connectors on fans that probably came with your case. The cable attached on the left end is the power input to the board. Immedately above it is a 2-pin connector labelled "SW" to connect to the Reset Switch cable from your case's front panel. If you unplug that cable from the "Front Panel" header of your mobo and plug it in on this board, you no longer have a Reset Switch. Instead, that becomes a pushbutton to change the RGB lighting displays manually via this board.

Immediately to the right is a 4-pin connector marked "PC PWM DATA". the board should have come with a cable to plug in here that ends in two other connectors. One goes to a mobo PWM fan header to pick up the PWM speed control signal from it, and the other goes to a mobo ADDR RGB 3-pin (NOT a 4-pin plain RGB) header IF your mobo has one to provide mobo-based control of the lights. If you cannot make this connection, then you can use the manual colour control system based on the re-purposed Reset switch. To the right of that are the two 3-pin ports for connecting small 3-pin ARGB light strips if you have any.

 

[kenzi03]

Quite right - the manual available on-line for this is useless. The items I have seen that are similar are used by Aerocool, and are slightly different from yours. The reply above from Unolocogringo is pretty much correct, with a small adjustment. The things you called "4-pin " ports are actually 6-pin as he said, but there are 8 of them, not 7. These are for pluging in the 6-pin connectors on fans that probably came with your case. The cable attached on the left end is the power input to the board. Immedately above it is a 2-pin connector labelled "SW" to connect to the Reset Switch cable from your case's front panel. If you unplug that cable from the "Front Panel" header of your mobo and plug it in on this board, you no longer have a Reset Switch. Instead, that becomes a pushbutton to change the RGB lighting displays manually via this board.

Immediately to the right is a 4-pin connector marked "PC PWM DATA". the board should have come with a cable to plug in here that ends in two other connectors. One goes to a mobo PWM fan header to pick up the PWM speed control signal from it, and the other goes to a mobo ADDR RGB 3-pin (NOT a 4-pin plain RGB) header IF your mobo has one to provide mobo-based control of the lights. If you cannot make this connection, then you can use the manual colour control system based on the re-purposed Reset switch. To the right of that are the two 3-pin ports for connecting small 3-pin ARGB light strips if you have any.

So PWM connector goes to sys fan or cpu fan, sry if Im boring, but im noob so i just want to know how to connect it properly. And I don't have 3pin connectro for argb or i don't see any on tomahawk b450 max. Is there any kind of adapter or something

 

[Paperdoc]

The connector for a mobo fan header should go to one of your SYS_FAN headers. They are the ones that are guided by a temperature sensor on the mobo, and not by the one inside the CPU chip. See your mobo manual p. 35 and 59. At the top right select the particular header you have plugged the hub into. Then in the middle section at the upper left, select the PWM Mode. This will ensure that the header sends to your Hub the PWM signal it needs to control fan speeds. Use Esc to return to the Main Menu, then F10 to get to the Exit Menu. Remember to SAVE and Exit. Note that this Hub appears NOT to send any fan speed signal to the SYS_FAN header, so you will never "see" a case vent fan speed anywhere. This will not affect the ability to control those speeds, and will have no impact on seeing the speed of your CPU cooler.

Regarding the connection of your Reset button cable to this board, see your manual p. 32 for a sketch of the Front Panel header, and its location on the mobo. You will need to pull the 2-pin connector from the Reset Switch from its pins there and connect it instead to the control Hub. Since your mobo has no 3-pin ARGB header, you will have to control the light displays using that front panel button.

 

[kenzi03]

The connector for a mobo fan header should go to one of your SYS_FAN headers. They are the ones that are guided by a temperature sensor on the mobo, and not by the one inside the CPU chip. See your mobo manual p. 35 and 59. At the top right select the particular header you have plugged the hub into. Then in the middle section at the upper left, select the PWM Mode. This will ensure that the header sends to your Hub the PWM signal it needs to control fan speeds. Use Esc to return to the Main Menu, then F10 to get to the Exit Menu. Remember to SAVE and Exit. Note that this Hub appears NOT to send any fan speed signal to the SYS_FAN header, so you will never "see" a case vent fan speed anywhere. This will not affect the ability to control those speeds, and will have no impact on seeing the speed of your CPU cooler.

Regarding the connection of your Reset button cable to this board, see your manual p. 32 for a sketch of the Front Panel header, and its location on the mobo. You will need to pull the 2-pin connector from the Reset Switch from its pins there and connect it instead to the control Hub. Since your mobo has no 3-pin ARGB header, you will have to control the light displays using that front panel button.

I have 3 buttons on may case power,reset and led. Does that mean that i don't have to connect reset button to hub so i can control the light. And tnx for everything

 

[Paperdoc]

Actually, I think the front of your case has TWO pushbuttons - On / Off (Power) and Reset - plus two LED lights - Power On and HDD activity (blinks). The function of the On / Off pushbutton is clear but it has a couple of less-known uses. The Reset button is for forcing a complete reboot of your system when it gets so confued it simply hangs and does nothing no matter what you try to do from keyboard or mouse. It is a handy "last resort", but you CAN force that action another way, so it is not entirely necessary.

The fan controller board you have controls both fan speed and the fan lights. Well, in reality it functions as a fan motor Hub and lets the mobo SYS_FAN header's PWM signals control all of its fans; the board has NO control buttons of its own for fans motors. Similarly, it also has NO buttons to control the LIGHTS in the fan frames, although it has a menu of lighting effects it can create, and you get to choose which by stepping through its choices until you get the one you want. But how to "step through"? It requires that you connect a simple momentary-contact pusbutton to its 2-pin port near the power input, and you use that pushbutton to step through light display choices. Now, the simplest way to get that required simple button is to re-purpose one that is already mounted on your front panel and easy to reach, but is NOT essential to normal operation. Hey - use the RESET button! This means you MUST unplug that button's wires from the mobo Front Panel header, and plug it into the board's 2-pin header instead. Once you do that, that button no longer can do the Reset function for you, but it DOES allow you to choose light display patterns. If you do NOT make this wiring change, you will have NO way to change the light displays of your fans. Alternatively, of course, you could buy a simple pushbutton switch and mount it yourself somewhere handy and run your own wire pair from it to the board's 2-pin header. That would do the job, too.

If you re-purpose the Reset switch as they intended, then how can you force a Reset without the special Reset switch? You use a simple feature of the other pushbutton, the On / Off button. Instead of a simple push, if you push it in and HOLD it in for at least five seconds, the system will be forced to shut down right away. Then you can release, and do a plain normal push of that button to do a normal start.