Fan Connection Questions

PhysicsMan94 · 26 Feb 2014 at 21:15

Hi, I just have a few questions regarding fan connections.

At the moment all of my fans (4 case fans, 3 radiator fans) are connected to fan headers on my motherboard - 2 of the radiator ones are connected to CPU fan connections, whereas the other one is connected to a chassis/opt fan header.

Is it better to have all of these fans connected straight to the PSU via a fan connection adapter cable? As I assume at the moment that the 2 radiator fans connected to the CPU fan connections will have variant RPMs based on the temperature of the CPU, but it is probably better to have them going at full whack is it not?

Also, the molex connector for the pump I have connected to an opt/chassis fan header on the motherboard, is this also an efficient way of doing it or should I have that connected direct to the PSU via an aforementioned cable?

My system is working fine at the moment as my CPU is around 25°C idle and 40-45°C when gaming/benchmarking and my GPUs are around 35°C idle and 65-70°C at heavy load, I'm just curious as to the best way to do things.

Cheers for any help

PhysicsMan94 · 26 Feb 2014 at 23:13

Unfortunately I don't think I can fit another "component" (or whatever it's called) in a bay as I already have 3 taken up and the top one is kind of blocked by my radiator. However I suppose I could take out my Blu-Ray drive as I don't really use it that much, I'll have a think about that.

Thanks for the advice

PhysicsMan94 · 26 Feb 2014 at 23:43

Bart_Hunt said:
Do you have a 3.5" hdd slot left inside?
There are small fan controllers that fit in the hdd teay, I think akasa or lian-li makes them. I think they may be in stock

I have plenty of hard drive bays left - only using 2 at the moment so I have 7 left lol

I guess I could use one of them but then isn't the point of a fan controller to have it in one of the optical drive bays so you can easily change settings?

PhysicsMan94 · 27 Feb 2014 at 09:45

Hmmm, I don't think I'll take the hard drive tray approach. I'll have a think about replacing my blu ray drive with a fan controller, but I'll leave my system as it is for the moment.

Cheers for the advice