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    Power SATA male to female with fan lead?

    After some suggestions, as not sure the product I need exists.

    Adding a case fan to a HP slimline system to cool chipset. The motherboard only has one fan header that runs CPU fan. There are no surplus power leads from PSU, and the two provided are in use and both female SATA.

    Thought a product like this would be available, but with SATA male and SATA female instead of Molex.

    I have a Molex male to female pass through with 3 pin fan power lead coming off it, but would prefer to minimise the joints instead of adding further adapters each side.

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    Re: Power SATA male to female with fan lead?

    How about using a Y splitter cable for the fans and run them both from the CPU fan, it should vary them both according to CPU temp then, which would be good?

    Something like this? http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1930.html

    Is the header a 3 pin or 4 pin PWM?

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    Re: Power SATA male to female with fan lead?

    That's something I didn't think of. But would power draw be too much and burn out fan header?

    This is the motherboard, HP M2NC51-AR (HematiteXL). Only difference from that picture is my chipset passive cooler is L shaped so also covers the bare chip below heatsink seen in picture. Fan header is 4 pin.

    The motherboard is known to suffer overheating chipset that kills it. So would prefer constant speed over variable to keep chipset cool.

    Edit: This was another option, but not seen a UK source. Newegg page

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    Re: Power SATA male to female with fan lead?

    As I don't have a soldering iron or feel happy trying to push fan wires into SATA plug I decided to try this HDD cooler, and separate the fans from it. The seller also does 8 and 12cm fan on their own, but size is too big for my needs.

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    Re: Power SATA male to female with fan lead?

    Quote Originally Posted by Antagram View Post
    As I don't have a soldering iron or feel happy trying to push fan wires into SATA plug
    Couldn't you have just used some scotchlocks?

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    Re: Power SATA male to female with fan lead?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sputnik View Post
    Couldn't you have just used some scotchlocks?
    Something to remember for the future. I never know of such an item, and just watched a video to see how simple they are to use.

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    Re: Power SATA male to female with fan lead?

    When I splice wires I just cut them, trim back, twist the core together and then wrap with electrical tape, I've never blown anything up, have quite a few hacky cables done this way... for example an old nokia pop-port USB cable which I stripped back, exposed the 5V power and ground, spliced it to a fan cable and then powered a fan at 5V from USB.

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