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blueonblack
09-22-2008, 08:09 PM
I just bought a fan controller and some new fans, but I just now noticed that all of my new fans have only a 4-pin Molex connector, and the fan controller has only 3-pin male connections. I've looked and found adapters to go from Molex to 3-pin male (to run a 3-pin fan on a Molex connection) but cannot find one to go from Molex to 3-pin female (to run a Molex fan on a 3-pin connection). Does anyone know where a guy could find such an adapter? Can I simply wire the fans to the 3-pin male connectors manually? If so, does anyone know which wires to connect?

Xpirate
09-22-2008, 08:41 PM
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=608

Consulted Google with "4 pin molex to 3 pin"

http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Motherboard_CPU_Cooling_Fan

Also used Google with "fan pinout 3 pin"
So you can wire it up yourself.

blueonblack
09-22-2008, 09:04 PM
I saw an animated pic on a forum site recently that read "We are not your personal search engine!" :redface:

I'll do my research more thoroughly before posting in the future. Thanks for the research and +rep.