Question: I finally got to tearing this thing apart completely. Now I have an empty case and a lot of parts. Most of them can be salvaged, especially the GPU, I think, but the PSU and case fans are an absolute shitshow. There's three of them: Two 92mm ones with a metal grille, and one with a tiny speaker mounted next to it, and one huge son of a bitch that was mounted at the lower front of the case.
Out of all the parts, the PSU and fans are by far in the worst condition. They're so dusty I'm surprised the thing didn't immediately implode when I first turned it on. I've tried every cleaning method I can think of, even hosed them down for a bit, but the grime is so stuck on there I feel like these things are beyond saving. Oh, I also partially destroyed one of the fans with a metal grille while taking it out, the one without the tiny speaker. It was really stuck in there and brute force couldn't get it out in one piece.
So long story short, I would love to toss out the PSU and replace it (easy enough), but also replace all the case fans. Now I can find fans of a similar size to these ones, but the trouble is, seems a 4-pin connection is the standard for those. While the fans in my Dell case have a 5-pin connection, and a 5-pin header on the motherboard. I'm assuming a 4-pin connection won't just work with this if I plug it in, and finding 5-pin connection case fans seems difficult. I'm guessing it's a proprietary connection used by Dell.
Does anyone know if these fans can be replaced with non-Dell fans that work with this motherboard?