MSI's B450 Tomahawk motherboard has proved extremely popular over the last year or two... and now it has a successor. Luke checks out the B550 Tomahawk to see just how good this motherboard is, and ...

USB headers on a motherboard come in a variety of sizes and types. Older USB-A 2.x ports are powered by a 9-pin array, ...

IIRC the extra pin on a 4 pin motherboard header may report if the fan has totally stopped, like a failure line, to tell the mobo to shut the CPU off. I've got an old 4 pin fan here from a '94 ...

Eight-pin ATX12V (CPU power) connector: Back when the Pentium 4 processor first shipped, Intel realized that high-performance CPUs needed their own source of clean, dedicated power beyond what the ...

Voltage Mode (3-pin fans):Voltage mode is where the motherboard uses some type of voltage regulator to regulate the 12v wire going to the fan.Voltage mode has changed a bit over the years, where ...

CPU FAN should only be used for the main CPU fan. However, care should be taken when using splitters as they add another potential point of failure to the system. In the worst case, a splitter on ...

The hub supports both 12V and 5V fans with both 4-pin PWM and 3-pin connectors. The NA-FH1 can be powered either by its S-ATA input (12V fans, up to 54W) or the 4-pin PWM input (for 5V and 12V ...

The ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme motherboard is built for AMD’s Socket AM5 systems, featuring a reliable power setup that includes a 24-pin ATX connector, dual 8-pin EPS connectors, and an 8 ...

However, you may need a splitter for it to work on a traditional motherboard fan port, as it also comes with 5V ARGB. NZXT plans to roll out a "control hub" that will directly manage these fans ...

So the inlaws computer power supply has died. They went and bought a new one but it doesn't have the 3 pin connector that connects to the motherboard and is labeled for the fan. The cpu fan is ...