PWM fans?

MonsterMoshi · 11 Jan 2012 at 19:45

OcUk have a range of 4-pin PWM fans. I am mostly interested in the Apaches but my motherboard lacks these connectors. Is there a good fan controller which supports this or is it a feature that comes mostly on newer motherboards?

Orcvader · 11 Jan 2012 at 19:47

You can just connect them to the normal 3 pin connectors?

MonsterMoshi · 11 Jan 2012 at 19:52

Well i feel silly

Thanks

wazza300 · 11 Jan 2012 at 20:22

they wont speed up slow down though according to temp if connected to 3pin,plenty cheap fan controllers around

you might be able to slow them down in the mb bios

Thekwango · 11 Jan 2012 at 21:47

is your cpu fan header not a 4 pin pwm header? if it is you could use one of these

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-031-AK

MonsterMoshi · 11 Jan 2012 at 22:17

Yes my CPU header is so i guess i could use that cable. Great idea! Thanks

Thekwango · 11 Jan 2012 at 22:52

it's a perfectly good solution. i use one to run a pair of pwm fans on push/pull on the cpu cooler. i believe you can run upto 3 pwm fans

setter · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:47

Or if you need to run more than three PWM fans, akasa do this one as well.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-070-AK

Nicely braided too, i also use the unbraided three fan model TheKwango linked, great purchase, though a bit messy.

Thekwango · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:58

Haven't seen that cable setter, dunno how I missed it as I'm always browsing through the cable section. Might have to get one of these myself, for as u say the 3xpwm is a bit messy, that's its one drawback I guess.

MOOGLEYS · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:00

I have two of the akasa PWM splitters and run all my case fans from the CPU header.
Runs lovely and quite and the fans speed up when needed.

Deception · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:27

Thekwango said:
Haven't seen that cable setter, dunno how I missed it as I'm always browsing through the cable section. Might have to get one of these myself, for as u say the 3xpwm is a bit messy, that's its one drawback I guess.

Neither have I, wonder how long its been on there for. Might have to purchase it too, as I got a few PWM fans that are on full speed due to not daisy chainging the splitter.

MOOGLEYS · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:29

Deception said:
Neither have I, wonder how long its been on there for. Might have to purchase it too, as I got a few PWM fans that are on full speed due to not daisy chainging the splitter.

It's been out years. I had one on my old Q6600 system when they first came out..

Deception · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:32

MOOGLEYS said:
It's been out years. I had one on my old Q6600 system when they first came out..

Might of been because im cheap, probably blocked out everything else when I saw the price of the first splitter

MOOGLEYS · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:35

Deception said:
Might of been because im cheap, probably blocked out everything else when I saw the price of the first splitter

Lol, they are great.

I have a PWM splitter coming from the 4 pin CPU connector on my board into two of these with 6 PWM fans running from them. I t works really well..

Thekwango · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:59

MOOGLEYS said:
It's been out years.

seriously?!? how have i never seen this before!?!?! i think 1 shall be ordered as my fan controller can only control 4 of my 6 case fans.

Deception · 12 Jan 2012 at 16:06

Thekwango said:
seriously?!? how have i never seen this before!?!?! i think 1 shall be ordered as my fan controller can only control 4 of my 6 case fans.

Same here. I've also got a viper on full whack because its stuck in to a 3 pin header... Gonna pick one of these up

Thekwango · 12 Jan 2012 at 16:22

Deception said:
I've also got a viper on full whack

that can't be a pleasant noise!

Deception · 12 Jan 2012 at 16:32

Thekwango said:
that can't be a pleasant noise!

Nope, I did have These on full whack for awhile (all 4 of them!), thats when I invested in to a fan controller. Now just gotta quiet down the viper haha.

Thekwango · 12 Jan 2012 at 16:41

4 x 1900rpm!! you can't be serious!! :eek:

out of curiosity how did you secure your pc to the floor??

MOOGLEYS · 12 Jan 2012 at 16:51

Deception said:
Nope, I did have These on full whack for awhile (all 4 of them!), thats when I invested in to a fan controller. Now just gotta quiet down the viper haha.

you must have a very high noise tolerance....