RGB Wiring Question

[DeaconFrost]

I just bought two new ATX CoolerMaster cases for my tower and my wife's. She picked out the TD500 and I got the MB511. Both come with RGB controllers, but they appear to only handle three fans....which is what both cases prepackage.

We are upgrading from smaller MB311L cases that have three fans total. Am I wrong here, but I am thinking I may need to buy a better RGB controller to handle more fans? I was to add a fourth to each case.

I believe both of our motherboards also only have three fan connectors, so powering them with a splitter is easy. It's the RGB portion that I'm stuck on and looking for suggestions.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm wondering if I could use something like this, to connect all four fans, and then connect this to the motherboard's RGB header.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/508954/micro-connectors-1181-in-1-to-4-rgb-splitter-cable

 

[SmokeRngs]

As long as all the RGB items use the same connector and are controllable by the motherboard's RGB software, something like that should work. I have an Enermax CLC with RGB on the two fans and the waterblock/pump. Each one has its own RGB connector but they all also have pigtails to be able to daisy chain them and connect them to a single RGB header and this is the way they are hooked up and work fine.

What you linked is basically the same thing. I have no idea about that specific product but it should work fine as long as the RGB connectors are correct and the RGB header can support powering all the different RGB items (which should be extremely likely.) With the single RGB connection everything attached to the splitter will have the same RGB effect of course.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Thanks, that's exactly what I was hoping. I picked up the adapters today, so as soon as our cases are delivered, I'll give it a shot.