I purchased a BitFenix Nova Mesh A-RGB Midi-Tower Case from OCUK and a B550 Tomahawk motherboard. The Dragon Suite software has to be one of the largest piles of garbage I've seen in some time. So i'm in need of an alternative to control the RGB lighting on the fans. Is there a separate controller I can purchase that can plug into a USB slot or something?
Control case fans without going through motherboard software?
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mickyflinn's link is probably a good place to start, but if you have no luck with that then there are controllers like you mentioned. Corsair have the iCUE Commander Pro but I'm not sure if it works with normal ARGB fans designed to connect to a motherboard, maybe they have their own connectors for their own brand fans?
Aqua Computer have the farbwerk 360 (Some AQ stuff sold at OcUK, not this board unfortunately):
https://shop.aquacomputer.de/product_info.php?products_id=3798
It has four channels but is designed to connect to their "rgbpx" stuff so you'd need these adapters to connect to regular stuff:
https://shop.aquacomputer.de/product_info.php?products_id=3829
It can then be controlled via their software, which I've heard good things about. Not used it myself, I have one on order but still waiting for it.
Aqua Computer have the farbwerk 360 (Some AQ stuff sold at OcUK, not this board unfortunately):
https://shop.aquacomputer.de/product_info.php?products_id=3798
It has four channels but is designed to connect to their "rgbpx" stuff so you'd need these adapters to connect to regular stuff:
https://shop.aquacomputer.de/product_info.php?products_id=3829
It can then be controlled via their software, which I've heard good things about. Not used it myself, I have one on order but still waiting for it.