Best fan controllers?

AssaTM

AssaTM

AssaTM

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Hi all, can anyone recommend a fan controller that can control a high amount of fans that will individually dictate the speed of Watercooling fans as well as general case fans and without it looking like a 1980's sci fi control panel? I just want to be able to independently dictate the speed of my watercooling fans as well as my case fans irrespective of each other if possible, any tips and recommendations would be great, thank you :)
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-011-AQ

USB fan controller, you just need some splitters from 3pin headers. No control panel, just an interface program. Can control as many fans as you want, depending on the temperatures. I think you can control up to 3 per header (so 12 total) with a heatsink on the VRM's, so get it as well: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-124-AQ

Or just watercool the whole thing for unlimited fans (almost). http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-127-AQ
 
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I use the Aquaero 5 LT as well. added the water block and 18 fans.

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So how does it basically work ? U control it in windows ? Can u set it for automatic mode etc so it changes the speed of fans(voltage regulated?) automatically depeding on temps ?:)
Can it also control a PWM watercooling pump ?
 
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You can but only 1 fan header is pwm and other 3 are voltage. Also note you would need a passive heatsink along with aquaero 5 it as if you connect more fans it may overheat. I would recommend getting a heatsink or buying aquaero 6 pro which doesn't need a passive heatsink to connect 2 to 3 fans per channel. Hope this helps.
 
You got software to create fan curve and from there you can pick voltage or pwm control on different channels but only one header is pwm though. I think it's 4th one.
 
Yea voltage regulated other three channels on aquaero 5lt and one pwm. On aquaero 6 pro you get 3 ways to control fans: pwm voltage and min/max power.
 
Using a Lamptron FC8 to control 8 fans on 2x480 radiators, not sure if oc'uk have stock but googling around should find you one, good controller IMO.

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im currently using Lamptron CW611.
I used Lamptron 5v3 before but wasnt happy with it rly. This CW611 is good, up to 36W per channel but im kinda missing windows profiling. However it has some kind of prebuild profile so when u set it to automatic mode and u set crutial temp for example as 40C, the fan is not going from 30%(ur choice) to 100% like with lamptron 5, but its increasing speed up to 100%(ur choice) when only when it hits ur set crutial temp + 10C on top of it. Hope it makes sense :D

Anyway, one question. U can control pumps easily with it as its 36W per channel. The problem is new pumps are PWM controlled(EK ones) and lamptron uses voltage regulations. Is there any way how to control a pwm pump(Molex + pwm header) via 3 pin connector ? Is there som kind of adapter to make this possible ? Molex to 3 pin but like the oposite way around ?
 
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