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Seems to me the last Z97 boards I installed only had PWM for CPU Fans 1 and 2, all the case fans had 3 pin headers all fans are used only as needed with most case fans stopping most of the time, I only use 1 fan on my CPU heatsink which is pushing through the Prolimatech heatsink I was using a 140 but changed it back to 120 mm still my temps idle in the 20's with 23 Ambient temp
My motherboard replacement is now complete so all my worries of fans using the old headers (or connections directly to the PSU) are now. There were a few major panics during the replacement (such as when the new motherboard would not perform a POST) but the fans work perfectly. I'll call this "Solved".
I just replaced my MB with later version and Windows didn't have any objections. Digital activation just showed a "new system/device".