Cooling Question (fan control)

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Hi all.

after finally moving to a bigger case and some water cooling what would be best way to indepentanly control case fans?

I see a number of fan hubs and controllers in varying prices - but they all see to control the fans all at once (one ramps up they all do?)

My case
Lian Li Air Midi (2 stock exhaust fans in top)
CPU 5900x - cooled by Silent Wings SILENT LOOP 2 - 360mm radiator with 3 fans - vertically in the side of case

Currently 1 Noctua fan (from previous build) beneath GPU (plan on replacing this with 3 of the same)

Motherboard : X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI (rev. 1.0)
Has 3 fan headers but one is for cooling the PCH and M.2 drive

so leaves 2 more headers (CPU and Chasis)


So this will have
3 fans for CPU
1 header for pump

3 fans to cool GPU (upwards)
2 / 3 fans exhaust in top of case

currently using 1 to 3 fan splitter cables for now.
 
If you want manual control, Lamptron usually offer a range of 4 or 6 channel controllers (30w per channel), so you can split them between CPU, Case, GPU, and whatever you like. Intakes, exhaust, etc.
For software control without needing motherboard headers, my personal favourite is the AquaComputer range. The Octo has 8 channels that are controlled individually, as sets, as groups, as channels controlled by various combinations of data, pretty much anything you can think of.
 
Thanks those lamptrons look cool - but no drive bays in the case for something like that.
Yes manual to twiddle would have been decent.

I guess I'm thinking.
The silent wings should just ramp up via CPU temp (PWS)

and the exhaust / intake (3 each) I should just set manually via software?
 
conuk said:
price of those :eek:

(and thanks for the suggestion)
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They beat everything else in functionality and you could expand them with water loop temperature sensors etc.
With everything except software sensor read outs done completely on own hardware not needing even OS booted.
Also in principle you could even wire one output to relay to start your coffee maker at morning.

But if you use only PWM fans, Quadro and Octo are lot cheaper.
Aqua Computer QUADRO PWM Fan Controller= £35.99
Aqua Computer OCTO Fan Controller for PWM 8 Fans= £49.99
 
EsaT said:
They beat everything else in functionality and you could expand them with water loop temperature sensors etc.
With everything except software sensor read outs done completely on own hardware not needing even OS booted.
Also in principle you could even wire one output to relay to start your coffee maker at morning.

But if you use only PWM fans, Quadro and Octo are lot cheaper.
Aqua Computer QUADRO PWM Fan Controller= £35.99
Aqua Computer OCTO Fan Controller for PWM 8 Fans= £49.99
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Ah that is a great move by AquaComputer to bring up the pared down fan controller as the software really is very good as many people don't need the myriad of other things that it does, including starting the morning coffee maker.
 
MartinPrince said:
Ah that is a great move by AquaComputer to bring up the pared down fan controller as the software really is very good as many people don't need the myriad of other things that it does, including starting the morning coffee maker.
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Technically I don't even need that, as my D5 NEXT pump also does fan control... but I like to mess around with stuff and my Octo also controls a shedload of RGB and additional temp sensors! :D
 
Have recently installed an OCTO and very impressed with it, the aquasuite software is pretty slick, dead easy to get started with massive scope for tinkering. Got 6 groups of fans that are all off at idle, then spin up in stages as temps rise. Brilliant.
 
I use an next one costs £30 and have 5 channels that’s can support 2 fans (30w max) pre channel. Each channel can be set to monitor cpu / gpu / system temp.

the is one problem if you set the fans to off until X temp they ramp up to 100% for a second when they hit that temp it like a start up thing.
 
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