qns on enermax / antec cases and fans

[xboxdude]

Someone educate me on this..

The cases come with fans.. are they the ball-bearing type or sleeve ones? Does the PSU power these fans?

How many leads does the PSU come with? What if you run out of them?

For the CPU fan, say I choose a panaflo or a sunon 80mm, what's with the number of pins in the connector? Do they hook to the mobo or the powersupply? The mobo (soyo dragon+) has 3 pin connectors...

Why do some cpu fans have 4-pin connectors, and who powers them?

 

[ChrisADuffy]

How many leads does the PSU come with? What if you run out of them?

Should be listed here - Enermax Site

 

[xboxdude]

And what happens if I run out of the 8 leads?

Btw, the enermax doesnt have details for the EG-351p that newegg is fitting in the Enermax FS-710B.. but i found reviews for it..

One confusion is the kind of fans it has.. so anyone know? Is it BB or sleeve?

Any idea what kind of fans are setup in the other 3 slots?

 

[AntecCSR]

You can buy splitters (we call them Y cables) so you can add more devices to them. You can find these at Fry's Electroncis and probably RadioShack and similar stores.
Antec Performance Series cases come with sleeve bearing fans that have 4-pin connectors that thus powered by the power supply. You only need one connector since the fans will allow you to chain them together. In fact at one time in my personal SX830 I had one power supply lead power the two rear fans and then go across and power a front fan and a hard drive. I can't say what Enermax supplies with their cases, since I don't know.
Fan mounts are for 80mm fans, 25mm deep.

4-pin is power supply, 3-pin is motherboard. So a CPU fan with a 4-pin connector gets power directly from the power supply. More manufacturers are going back to this since there have been some reports of fans drawing too much power through the motherboard, damaging the motherboard (and possibly other componenets). Many will have another connector that will attach to a motherboard's 3-pin connector so you can still monitor the fan speed.

AntecCSR

 

[mboy]

Enermax cases (like the Newegg 330W sx1030B I have ), comes with sleeve bearing (Globe is brand I think).