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Hello,

 

I am currently at work and was thinking about adding a 2nd hub to my system and adding more fans to it. 

PSU has enough power and a free USB2 header is also available but I am curious about the CPU fan connection which is occupied by the 1st hub in the system.

 

How do I need to wire things for the 2nd hub to work? Its probably super easy and im just to dumb to think about it right now.

 

Best regards

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2 hours ago, SenorJanko said:

but I am curious about the CPU fan connection which is occupied by the 1st hub in the system

Presumably this is for a CUE Link AIO you have in your system. That is not a power delivery connection. It’s a tachometer wire only, to satisfy the motherboard’s “CPU boot protection” feature. It won’t let you boot up unless something is connected to cpu fan. That wire reports a pump speed to the bios in order fulfill that obligation.  
 

All you’ll need is a usb 2 for communication and another 6 pin pci-e for power  — and more CUE Link cables. 

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16 minutes ago, c-attack said:

Presumably this is for a CUE Link AIO you have in your system. That is not a power delivery connection. It’s a tachometer wire only, to satisfy the motherboard’s “CPU boot protection” feature. It won’t let you boot up unless something is connected to cpu fan. That wire reports a pump speed to the bios in order fulfill that obligation.  
 

All you’ll need is a usb 2 for communication and another 6 pin pci-e for power  — and more CUE Link cables. 

God damn the moment I read your answer I got it. I remembered a topic in this forum where some people had an issue with the CPU Fan Message even while they had the cable connected and there was the same answer...

 

Thanks! 😄

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