[Mizpah]

Hi

For Christmas, I got a Zalman ZM-MFC1 Fan Controller Panel for a friend. He has a Antec Performance One P180 case. Since it's not mine, I'm not too sure about the specs, but I do know it has at least 4 stock case fans. I guess the problem he is having is that those fans only have the molex plug. then plug directly into the power supply and not into the mobo. The fan controller only has the small connectors, the ones that are connected into the mobo. Sorry I don't know their proper names. I know that the CPU and Chipset fan can still be utilized, but does anyone have any ideas on how to connect the case fans to the controller? Is there any adapters, or is it better for him just to buy new fans? Any ideas? In case you are wondering, I'm asking for him because he doesn't have internet.

Thanks

 

[McTimson]

The fans run off the 12v line, which is the yellow wire, and the black wire next to the yellow wire on the molex plugs. One way to hook them up would be to splice those 2 wires from the fan into a 3-pin motherboard fan connection. An easier way would probably be to just buy 2 new case fans with the proper connections, so you can get the RPM monitoring as well.

There probably are adapters available, as it's a simple wiring job, but you wouldn't have the RPM monitoring feature, which a new case fan probably would have.