CPU 120 mm fan and interchange connectors

my akasa heat sink fan has a three pin fan but my motherboard has four pin does any one know where i can get four pin female to three pin male molex connectors.i have tried ebay but no luck at all many thanks
my pc
msi P6N sli platinum
Q6600 quad
msi 258 mb graphic card pci express
3 GB crucial ram
420 be quite PSU

jack and jason thanks a million for both suggestion but listen to this by accident i connected a 120 system fan to one of the system fan connectors and noticed that it is much quieter than cpu fan so i removed the 120 mm cpu fan and replaced it with 120 system fan . it does about 1200 rpm i can not adjust the speed but it is much quieter than the cpu fan which easily does 2200. this is not perfect but it does the job for the time being (system fan have much large internal resistors and that is why they are slower than cpu). my akasa heat sink fan is great but currently i have not seen four pin 120 cpu fan??? many thanks for your great help

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I know this has been talked before BUT.. I just got a new Enermax PSU and I have connected the 3 wire fan connector to the NB plug on the mobo. The concern I have is that the PSU controls the fan speed, but I thought the NB plug ALSO controls the fan. Is there going to be some sort of conflict? I have the SMART NB fan temperarture in the BIOS disabled. Is this correct or can there be a problem?
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