Its not really a hard swap. Pull the pin from the 12V line and switch it with the 5V line in the molex. That's a 5V plug now. Put the fans in series into that molex connector and you're set. You can play to figure out which ones run and which don't etc. The only thing is to make sure that you don't plug anything else into that molex series like HDs!
I think the 12V line is yellow and the 5V line is red. You can get them out using a toothpick to push in the tabs or a jeweler's flathead screwdriver (if you check out the power connectors in a male molex you'll know what the tabs are that I'm talkign about)
What about 5V?
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Ralf Hutter
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Both the 120mm L1A and the 92mm L1A in my SLK3700 are run at 5V. They startup fine at this voltage (as do alomost all L1As I've ever used) and push enough air in this free-flowing case to do their job just fine.
That's one of the benefits of having good airflow in your case, you can run your fan(s) real slow and quiet and still get good-to-adequate cooling from them.
That's one of the benefits of having good airflow in your case, you can run your fan(s) real slow and quiet and still get good-to-adequate cooling from them.