Fan connection question

[yourrealdad]

Once again thank you for all the people who helped me on my first build. I had a quick question about fan hookups. All my fans in my Thermaltake Tsunami dream case seem to have two molex power connections, one male and one female and I was curious if this was to piggy back or if this was just to offer different hookup settups. If I can piggy back off the fan connections instead of piggy backing off the PSU piggy backs that would clean up a little in my case
Thank you

[juppy]

Yeah, those are just pass-through "piggy back" power connectors. You can usually safely hook at least 2 or 3 fans together and piggy back them from one molex from the power supply (depending on how much current each fan takes). Helps save your power supply molex connectors for other drives and stuff, in case you've got a supply that doesn't have very many of them to begin with.

[flanzig1]

Mother board fan connections should only have one fan on each header. 120mm would be the biggest I would go.

[juppy]

Yeah, if it's the small connectors on the motherboard, don't piggy back those. That's why I said you'd need to connect them to one molex connector from the power supply. Thanks for catching that flanzig1.....I neglected to elaborate on the onboard headers.