Dell Proprietary Fan Connector

Dell does not use standard wiring or pinouts on their fan headers.

Dell proprietary fan connector.

This 8 inch 20cm long black sleeved fan adapter cable converts a pwm female fan connector to a dell proprietary 5 pin 4 wire male connector. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Now you can use most pwm cooling fans in a dell systems no need to purchase expensive factory replacement fans. Black sleeved and 9 8 inches long overall.

This 11 inch long black sleeved fan adapter cable can convert a pwm 4 pin connector on a regular pwm cooling fan to a dell proprietary 5 pin 4 wire connector which plugs onto select factory dell computer system boards. That same page also defines wire color for the replacement everflow fan arnuschky used amongst others dell and non dell fans so read it. Pwm fan cable adapter converts a pwm connector to a dell proprietary 4 wires 5 pin connector. Now you can use almost any regular pwm cooling fan to replace a factory dell cooling fan with the 5 pin 4 wire connector.

If a 3rd party conversion exists it s hard to find due to 4 pin fan connectors being so common getting it to narrow down to dell s is beyond me. 5 pin 4 wire fan connector cable 4 support pwm speed control thermostat length. It s a different pitch and smaller pins. For 3 wire they reverse 12v and tach.

The second link i referenced in my previous post describes the wire color wire function for the dell supplied delta cpu fan which uses the dell style connector found in the pe 2800. 18 cm 3 months warranty it is compatible with dell pc common cooling fan take place of original cooling fan use this cable turn 5pin compatible with dell to standard 4pin socket that can supply power for common cooling fan. Find similar products by category. Dell fan wires and colors.

Pwm and tach and 12v and ground. Made with genuine new copper cores in all of our cables no recycled materials whatsoever. This can lead to self destruction for a dell fan on standard motherboard or the other way round. On other dell systems you have slim 5 pin fan connector on many mobos.

The 4 pin memory fan connector is also proprietary. For these slim style 5 pin connectors where usually 4 wires go to the fan adapters exist to convert the 5 pin dell connector to the standard 4 pin fan connector we see on consumer products see here.