4pin Fan Controllers

Rob200sx

Rob200sx

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Hi, can anyone recommend a 4-pin fan controller? I've got 5 4-pin pwm fans, unfortunately if I hook these up to the system fan sockets they go at full pelt and are thus very noisy, so I'd like to get some control over them, I only have 1 4-pin pwm socket on the MBD

All I can find are 3-pin controllers with the closed type male sockets which means 4-pin female connectors will not fit :(
 
You can use a PWM splitter with Molex power. Plug it into motherboard CPU fan socket and use the PWM signal and control it with ET6. Added advantage is automatic case fan speed same as CPU fan. Speed up when CPU need more cooling and slow down nice and quiet when lots of airflow is not needed. ;)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-031-AK

You can plug 2 together and run 5 fans total.. or 3 and run 7 fans I don't like the braided Akasa PWM splitter as they heatshrink all the leads before pin connection and the flex fatique and break of.

Swiftech make a really nice 8-way PWM hub and GeLid have a nice braided 4x PWM Splitter.
 
There's nothing quite like automated control from the motherboard but if you really want a fan controller that takes 4 pinners then the Bitfenix Recon comes with 3/4 pin connectors, it won't of course actually use PWM to control the fans but they'll fit and work, mostly.
 
How many fans are you looking at running of each header of the fan controller? I ask as I was running 4 pin fans on a 3 pin fan controller but as I was controlling multiple fans of each header I used a 3 pin splitter cable which was open so could be plugged into 3 or 4 pin fans. The other option is to just get a 3 pin one and slice the side piece of plastic and viola a 4 pin plug fits :)

In my time I have done both as I couldn't find a 4 pin fan controller I liked so had to get 3 pin.
 
Running the Akasa 5 fan model here, use it to cool 2 cpu and 3 case fans. Thinking of adding another as i have 5 other fans that are ran via a mixture of a mobo header and a fan controller that buzzes too much.
 
Hi,

I assume the answer is no, but does this support 3 pin fans in any way?

Also with this setup, using the PWM signal from the CPU fan header, do you get any control with an ASUS motherboard or is it all automated?

Not trying to hijack the thread but thought I'd ask my question here rather than making a similar topic about the same thing :)
 
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