[SOLVED] Where does the VGD plug the motherboard?

[Collective15]

Hey all, I have a Zalman CNPS20x cooler with an Asus Prime Z390-A motherboard. Everything works perfectly, except I don't know where to plug in the VGD cable. I see a 12v GRB header for RBG above my ram, but it's four pins and my CPU cooler rbg fan plug only has three pins.


I'm assuming that I just need to plug in my 3pin plug into three of the four pins on that header?


Cable: Zalman addressable cable zm-adc80

Here is a review of said cooler by hardwareccanucks in case it's helpful.
https://hardwarecanucks.com/cooling-power/zalman-cnps20x-cnps17x-review/

 

[Paperdoc]

Do NOT try to plug that cable into your mob's 4-pin plain RGB header! If you find a way -really hard to do! - you will just burn out all the ARGB lights.

There are TWO major types of lighting systems dominating the market now. The simpler plain RGB system uses a 4-pin connector and 12 VDC power supply to the lights. The more advanced system, called Addressable RGB or ADDR RGB or ARGB uses a 3-pin connector (looks like 4 pins but one missing) and supplies its light with 5 VDC and a completely different method oc controlling the display colours. The two system are NOT compatible.

Your has two heades for ONLY the plain 4-pin RGB system, and you can NOT control or power the lights in your Zalman cooler from that. You need to get an add-on Controller designed for Addressable RGB (3-pin,. 5 VDC) lights.

 

[Collective15]

Do NOT try to plug that cable into your mob's 4-pin plain RGB header! If you find a way -really hard to do! - you will just burn out all the ARGB lights.

There are TWO major types of lighting systems dominating the market now. The simpler plain RGB system uses a 4-pin connector and 12 VDC power supply to the lights. The more advanced system, called Addressable RGB or ADDR RGB or ARGB uses a 3-pin connector (looks like 4 pins but one missing) and supplies its light with 5 VDC and a completely different method oc controlling the display colours. The two system are NOT compatible.

Your has two heades for ONLY the plain 4-pin RGB system, and you can NOT control or power the lights in your Zalman cooler from that. You need to get an add-on Controller designed for Addressable RGB (3-pin,. 5 VDC) lights.

Thank you! Does such a controller exist? I've been looking on Amazon and I can't find that product.

I saw that you replied to an earlier post with the same question.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ake-a-3-pin-5v-connector-go-to-a-usb.3467693/

 

[Paperdoc]

As it happens, Zalman makes what you need. Their Z-Sync box connects to a SATA power output from the PSU for power and to a mobo USB2 header to communicate with the mobo. It has four output ports each of the two types of RGB: 4-pin plain RGB, and 3-pin ADDR RGB. You need only the latter. You download and install their Z-Sync software that runs on your machine and communicates with the box via the USB2 header you used. You use it to configure your ARGB lights. It does NOT need any input from a mobo-based ARGB header to work.

http://www.zalman.com/EN/Product/Pr...tegory3=-99&searchKey=&searchWord=z-sync#none

I found the Zalman Z-Sync ARGB Controller on Amazon.com for a reasonable price; others may carry it also.