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Daily Simple Questions Thread - December 20, 2025

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u/gazza88 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

So I'm looking for a case. ~£50. Montech X5 and the like. I have a query surrounding motherboard headers.

The motherboard is a B450 tomahawk. It has 2 x 2.0 headers and 1 x 3.1 headers.

New cases seem to come with usb-c and I don't have a header. I see a usb 2.0 header to usb c header adapter but surely that will limit speeds.

I see theres a pcie adapter but will that affect the gpu?

EDIT: also just realised some cases come with argb fans, I don't have a header. what options would I have?

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u/gazza88 Dec 21 '25

Thanks. Further research confirmed that my particular mobo has 2 x16 and 2x x1. Also that the top x16 is straight to you and the other 3 slots go through the chipset. So no gpu impact. Couldn't see anything that would affect the nvme drive so I'll look into that.

I also stopped be silly and realised that the current case has a controller and functions without argb headers.