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Awesome video! I am thinking of trying to do the reverse and was looking for the full pinout of all 6 pins on the fans. I know which ones are RGB now, but what about the 3 that you cut? I think you mentioned in another comment that two of them are fan control, but is there any chance you can provide a full pinout for all 6 of those pins? I'm wondering if I can split a fan into both a 3-pin RGB connector and a 2/3 pin fan connector. Thanks!
Hey man this video is quite helful. Im a complete noob on the RGB world and i have a question. I have exactly the same uphere rgb controller for the fans, and i want to instal a led strip, but i have a 4 pin strip (12V R G B), is it possible to do something similar to what you did with the 3 pin strip? thanks for the help in advance.
Hello. I have an ENERMAX SABERAY PC case. I have fans bought in China with the controller put in the description. My case has a HUB that does RGB and rheobus controllable by the case. I would like to be able to connect my fans to the HUB. Do you know if this type of fan can be connected to a 4 pin RGB port. As I don't have a precise indication I wouldn't want to plug in is damaged the controller.
@@phreakwars A replacement controller is very expensive, I know something about it, my original circuit broke down. I don't want to buy another controller. Under my eyes on the fan I see 4 wires for the RGB and 2 wires for the fan. At first I thought the fan was for RGB in 5 and 12 v. I had thought of buying a 5v to 12v deepcool RGB converter but I have doubts that the converter communicates with the HUB.
Seems a lot of work. But how is the fan speed controlled or is it? I just bought a Musetex 903 PC case, which came with 6 fans (w 6 pin connectors) and a hub, but no way to control the fan speed that I have figured out yet, just the RGB. In contact with the supplier but no resolution yet. Any ideas?
Fan speed control will depend on the type of RGB control box you use. Some of the cheaper stuff does not have fan control as an option. The ones that do have fan control typically only have 3 settings. Low, high and off.
Thank you for making this video! Sorry if I'm a little slow, but how would I do this for similar 6pin RGB fans in combination with a Seasonic Synchro Connect? I got this case cheap and I have to make this work because as I'm sure you can agree, cheap is the only way to go :D
I should note that the fans came with a similar module too. Mine are Speedlink MYX. I got 6 fans, 3 control boxes, 3 remotes and cables for €36 or so :D
@@HazewinDog I guess first explain what you are trying to do? It sounds like you are wanting to connect the syncro connect to your motherboard, and then control the 6 pin fans in software. Is this correct? Or are you wanting something different, because there are a couple different answers for this depending on what you are looking to do.
I made them out of old fans and rgb cables, but if you'd like to buy a connector, try here: www.moddiy.com/products/Motherboard-5V-3-Pin-RGB-Female-to-Mini-6-Pin-Female-Adapter-Cable.html
I KNOW RIGHT!!! I rarely use this cheap shit except for lower budget builds. You can do the hack on it or buy an adapter, sure, but voltage output is off. Honestly wouldn't recommend playing around with it unless you really don't care if it gets trashed or not. As cheap as these boxes are, might as well.
Thanks for the info saved me a lot. Btw any idea how the led ports are wired. I got 4 pins led ports. No available led strip for the controller but from what I found it was using a 5v/din/gnd led strips..
I bought the connector you linked on the description, when I plug it, my other fans that are connected to other ports stop responding and the rgb just stops. I also lose control of the led change button on my case. Any tips? Thanks in advance
Unfortunately I didn't. Is it maybe a faulty cable? Because when I plug any hardware to that connector, my other fans lighting stops. Although they continue to be turned on.
Do you know how these fans are powered, voltage or PWM? I managed to mod my Asiahorse hub to connect the RGB to icue, but now I’m tempted to try get more control with these fans, since the “low” setting on the remote is still too noisy for me.
@@gildox1880 I’m assuming it’s voltage, but I haven’t had the time to take apart the hub to try again. My plan would be to try pwm first, and see if the fans move, since it’s a low voltage signal… because if you try 12V and it is instead pwm, it might kill the circuitry
bro, I have a kolink case with the SAME controller you have there, and the coolers connectors are the same too, so, can I use the coolers you have in the video on my controller? sorry my english Im from Argentina xd I bought 4 fans "sate" that have the same connectors that the coolers you have there, so I dont know if they will work or not in my case
For the fans any idea which pin is fan tach? my fan hub only sends 2 wires to the 4 pin fan connector on mobo. Gnd and Pwm. Without fan tach mobo runs fans full speed.
@phreakwar pc custom builds I want to ask that i have ant esport superflow argb can i modify them into my cooler master 360ml rgb controller ? It would be very helpful ! Thank you
Man! I'm just looking for this for 3 days, have seen all other videos other than this one. But man! I'm just thinking myself how many time i wasted by not clicking on your video. 🥴🥴 Thanks a lot man!!
All my MB have 12v headers i have an off brand fan set like yours, the rgb strip i have has the JST 3pin small on it, connected it directly to the 3 of the 6 pin like in video. Didnt need to cut wires or anything. Controller works the lights completely well. I love it. Thanks for the video. You saved me alot of aggravation and time.
I have an motherboard just don't have 3 pins ARGB (just 4 pin cpu/sys_fan) but i have 6 fans with a controller, but the connector is an 3 pin ARGB 5v i want do "hack" this soo, i need some help to do this
Excuse me Sr but I have a question (May be an stupid question); How can I remove the 6pin conector from the hub? I have being trying with my hands but it is too strong connected and I don´t want to broke anything...
I have 6 fans AIGO DR12 but the controller doesn't sync with asus aura sync. If i buy a controller that does, are the RGB fans gonna sync? Answer plz 😐
awesome work man fr i just have 1 question would it work if i connected that argb to the motherboard and tried to control the rgb from the motherboard for all components on the board?
Hi Ive bought the DS ARGB fans but there is no cable to connect the controller to the motherboard, where can i get one and what is it called? Please help!
For the UX100, it uses the data and ground lead, I don't have a Gamdias controller to show you how it is done, Gamdias uses a proprietary 8 pin, you'll need to use a multimeter to trace the ground and data leads.
I purchased online uphere rgb fan but hub are missing in box so i hope you solved my issues so tell me how to seprate the fan wire and rgb wire please give me a diagram
I would like to use my Thermaltake TT Riing 1425 fans running on 12V with a proprietary connector. It's fan on 5 pin. I guess that has 3 wires for the RGB and 2 wires for the fan. I know this type of wiring, I want to be able to install my fans on a classic 12 v rgb hub
could I just cut those wires, along with their plastic space to make a 6 pin work in a 3 pin controller? I messed up for not checking how many pins this fan uses. Hopefully you could help me out here
Hi!!! Would you help me with the controller seen at 11:00 minutes??? I do have that same controller in my pc to control 10 fans. But, it's controlled by a remote control and I want to control from motherboarb but do you what cable is connected from controller to motherboard??? Thanks!!!
The cable would be the one on the right side of where the power lead comes out. Your motherboard will need to have a 5v header, not a 12v. Typically, the remote should have a button to switch to motherboard mode.
@@phreakwars Sorry I should’ve been more specific. GiM is a brand or company that makes fans. The hub itself seems to be very similar of those to the fans made by Coolmoon which is also another brand.
@@scrubbyducktail2545 I'm guessing the pin out is the same. The only ones I have seen that are proprietary are Abkoncore's stuff for their Spider series fans.
have you tried already using GiM hub? because i want to connect exactly the EZ-DIY ram heatsink he shows in this video to the GiM hub but i want to make sure i'll work this way. Probably it will since GiM hub is exactly the same as COOLMOON, EZ-DIY, AsianHorse, etc.
Genial, muchas gracias , me ayudaste bastante, saludos desde Guatemala.-------- Great, thank you very much, you helped me a lot, greetings from Guatemala.
Hello bro....I'm planning to buy the aerocool cylon 4 argb cpu cooler will the connection be the same.....as I have an ant eSports 6pon argb hub???? I would be very grateful for your help.....
I have 2 rgb fans 6 pin that i want to put into a motherboard that has 3 pin connector is it possible to use the fan controller only? Or i need adapter also?
Please help I have a set of 3 fans all with 6 pin headers that connect into a controller via Molex although the wire with a Molex on also connects to my psu and has a 4 pin header on please please please help they light up but aren’t spinning
Would love to help, but I'd have to see what you have going on up close, can't really give you an assessment just going by what you're saying. From the sounds of it, you might have a bad control box. The 12v that runs the fans is separate from the 5 volts for the RGB. This split off in voltage and function is handled inside the control box. If the fans are not spinning, then the 12v link for that chain is defective for some reason.
They won't be detected because they are ran by an external controller, not by actual PWM. The 4 pin PWM plug on the controller does not report RPM, that is not a PWM leads function. RPM is handled by a seperate wire which is not part of the 6 pin controllers specs.
@@phreakwarsahh i see, i just waste10$ for buying another 6pin controller that have 4pin pwm on it cuz i think i can controll the fan speed from bios :(
Hi sir, i have a question. I buyed a 5V ARGB nvme heatsink from Aliexpress but a few days after that i realized that my controller only accept 6 pin fans and 3 pins LED strips. Is there way to make it work and controll the colors with my controller? Maybe i can cut the cables and make some kind of direct link joining the cables and stuff?
@@rabbitrampage yep, it's working like a charm. I found the scheme of the pins/cables in the internet. Then i grab some old PC front panel cables that i had from a time ago, then i connected each cable in the right spot like, They're still perfectly working to this day and i have full control of the RGB. It's easy, no need to be a genius or buy something else. Sorry for any bad word, English is not my main language
Wire that there box up to a $10 arduino pro micro running the Corsair Lighting Protocol firmware and bam, you got icue controlled RGB! Really sucks non of these seem to have a Data return wire (im hoping it'll be trivial to add tbh. Gonna try it on a set of EZDIY moonlight fans, hoping i can pickup the DO point on the end of the strip then use JST-SM connectors to daisy chain it all sequentially), that'd allow sequential lighting rather than everything lighting up the same way. Oh looks like they're JST-XH 6pin plugs too (by the looks of it, need to get my hands on them to match it up, if they are then they're readily available plugs)
@@phreakwars True, had a look at one of the premade cables and yeah can see the locking tabs ontop. Damn 2mm pitch, can't slide a standard dupont in there ....
Strimers have a total of 120 LED's inn them. This hack will work on them, but it doesn't pull enough amperage to light every light up, only about 2/3rds will work on Stimers.
@@phreakwarsI ended up picking up a L connect 3 controller but it missing the the USB and 3 pin cable. So I'm going to have to rig something up. 2 leads to a 3 pin, seems straight forward.
Yes, but you would need a special control box like this one: amzn.to/3ngUBDu It will plug into your boards 3 pin header allowing you to control it in software.
I have case fans that have 6 pin connectors that came with a fan hub, i also have some UpHere fans that are 3 pin connector and only have one SYS_FAN, how would I get it to work. My motherboard is the MSI PRO M2 MAX Micro ATX.
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i have the xigmatek aio cooler which has these 6 pin fans. the remote controller has a fan speed button but nothing happens when pressed. after doing some research i got to know that 6 pin fans has no speed control function but the website and all for this cooler advertises how you can control the speed of the fan. i had no issue if it wasn't so loud always running 100%. is there any hack or solution for my problem?
Hi There, My son just bought a brand new Antec NX800 case with 3 big RGB controllable LED fans... however… On the Motherboard there seems to be no connector for the controller, only 4 pin fan connectors. Can I make this work or drop the case? Thanks in advance for your reply!
Yes, this hack will work on those rgb fans. The wires you need to make this hack can be found here: amzn.to/3osBFmg or you could always hack a cheapy fan's wires and use those instead.
@@phreakwars , not sure I fully understand the hack. Intention is to cut some of the 6 wires of the fans and than connect it to the 4 pins on the motherboard to make the controller (included in the computer case) and the ledfans work?
Don't do that, you'll burn out the rgb, or worse, destroy the board. The 4 pin on the board is 12v, this hack is for 5v type rgb. Little hammered ATM, I'll try to remember this question and answer a little more sober later on and help you out.
I have a rainbow 5 pin box for RGB, the fans on the case plug into the controller no issue, but only LED they just light up, fans don't spin making them useless, which is a shame because I have 4 case fans that I could be utilising
Wait you created a 6 pin adapter for a 3 pin adapter so you could connect ur ram rgb thingies as well to the main box, right? But if i aint mistaken those ram thingies also have 4 pin (3 pins iirc actually. Btw just to mention that there are sum chinese brands that give those rgb things with 3 sections of cables, the ones uve shown, and theres another one that looks that it got 4 pins but theres actually 3, perhaps youll get what i tryna say. As far as ive seen yours doesnt have that connection i think...) so you can connect them to the rgb tires section of the main box and make the rgb work as well, isnt that correct? Or the connections work different? Interesting video btw, this electronics knowledge is gold for me, thanks
4 pin will be either 12v plain RGB but sometimes it's a call back lead. All I'm showing in the video is the pin out for the 6 pin to make it 3 pin, the 2 extra wires I clip, are 12v+,12v-, and feedback. The connector I end up with is just the hacked version of the exact same connect you can find here: www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-6pin-to-5V-ARGB-3PIN.html which you could absolutely buy as well if you don't mind waiting a couple weeks for them to arrive from China. And yes, they have the 4 pin version as well (which I did not show in this video). ae01.alicdn.com/kf/He5889908a6a2429397faa76ee7188eefU.jpg
@@phreakwars interesting, i got a fan controller box but its like a bootleg ver. of the coolmoon lol, its called loving cool and looks exact the same way but i dont really know if it has the same exact outputs since its almost the same thing, also got a gpu support from coolmoon, thats why i wanted to know if i could directly just connect that 4 pin section to the led tire, as far as i know its possible but i dont want to muck up anything lol
@@liliaruiz4245 Yes, these 6 pin controllers are almost all the same. The only real difference I have ever seen, is sometimes they will have a proprietary 6 pin connector, but the pinout is always the same.
Yeaaa...i burned my fans trying to connect this scam of a 6 pin connector to 12v. Argb leds just exploded, the fan motor is happy and thriving. garbage. On the fan box says its 12 v. Nothing about 5 volts.... Nbase Vortex
Sorry you were a dumb ass and did it wrong. Nobody else (and there have been HUNDREDS) had that problem. Fucking tard, pay attention next time instead of trying to tell me it's a scam. I won't be held responsible for your stupidity. So go fuck yourself and piss off. I scam nobody. Are the proper adapters I link to in the description a scam too??? Fucking idiot.
Hi, I just came across your video and it's exactly what I need as I want to connect my Barrow RGB water block to the controller. One question though? Do you know what these 6 pin connectors are called? I don't want to sacrifice one of the fans for the mod..
hey@@phreakwars thanks for this great video. I found those cables online maybe these are the right ones? www.amazon.de/-/en/ILS-Micro-6-Pin-Connector-Cables/dp/B07GXN2521/ref=sr_1_18?dchild=1&keywords=6+pin+jumper+led&qid=1606841573&quartzVehicle=21-720&replacementKeywords=6+pin+led&sr=8-18 I am struggling to find the right 6 pin connector cables, since i don't have a fan to sacrifice. also, i was wondering if it would be possible to take a few single jumper cable like those from Raspberry or Arduino.. www.amazon.de/-/en/AZDelivery-Jumper-Arduino-Raspberry-Breadboard/dp/B07K8PVKBP/ref=psdc_1626220031_t2_B07KYHBVR7 do you think it should fit?
@@phreakwars I have found some in eBay which I believe to be the correct ones. They are called "JST PH 2.0mm 6 Pin connectors" www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-Sets-JST-PH-2-0mm-6-Pin-Male-Female-Connector-Plug-Wires-Cables-300mm-/292037564597?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
@@jdewinnaar thanks a lot mate, so its 1,5mm vs 2mm. have you tried it out? I haven't got the connector stuff jet, so I've no idea how it looks I just want to be ready when it arrives
I already fried my rgb controller last night, my mother board is working but I would like to knw if the rgb fans are destroyed or or just the controller??
@@phreakwars so I should buy another controller just to test them? To be sure. The reason why I plugged the rgb to a fan header is because my motherboard doesn't have rgb header🤦🏿♂️...
ordered a 6 pin fan controller and remote from banggood!found out all of my mix of 12 cm pc cabinet fans got 3 pins and big old fat connecters!dang!have to learn to strip the cables from now on!and actually watch what I order!
Great! Can i daisy-chain a 3-1 splitter on a hub from another 3-1 splitter? This hub has many ports, but there are some more with one port (pccoler for ex) and you must use a splitter, so i was wondering if a buy that one, and daisy chain splitter can i sync strips, combs and other 5V rgb stuff.
Yes, but I have no idea what the limitations are on how many rgb devices you can use on the chain without overloading it. At a guess I'd say 10 since that's how many fans the controller usually will take.
