Fan controller help please.

thezakarum · 8 Feb 2012 at 22:28

Hey everybody,

I was just wondering if theres a way of controlling three sets of 3pin fans.

This is what I was thinking,

I will be watercooling my rig soonish, hopefully, and want to have 3 seperate sets of fans, 3 fans for the radiator, 2 fans for intake and 1 fan for exhaust at the back of the case.

I would also like each set to be controlled individually (software controlled would actually be awesome). I'm not sure if theres a way to do this without making the back of my case stupidly messy. :mad:

Also, as I said before all of these fans have 3pin connectors and I don't want to have molex connectors for each fan (or maby I could have one for each set?).

Anyone got any suggestions, I'm pretty lost on this one.

thezakarum · 8 Feb 2012 at 22:40

Okay sorry, I have 6 fans in total all with 3 pin connectors (not pwm) and I want there to be 3 "channels"? :confused:

3 Fans for the rad
2 Fans for intake
1 Fan for exhaust

I would like each set of fans to be controlled individually, as well as minimising cabling.

The budget is negotiable really, if there are a few controllers that do all of the things above then I'll buy the cheapest. (depending on quality)

thezakarum · 9 Feb 2012 at 08:27

Morning all,

So I've been searching around to find a decent 6 channel controller and the ones that I liked seem to have bad reviews, Akasa FC. SIX and Lamptron FC2.

I could skip the controll part and buy one of these, Akasa FLEXA FP5 stick a reduction cable on the end of the pwm motherboard header of the FLEXA FP5 so all 6 fans are running on 7 volts. Would that work? :confused:

I got a bunch of reduction cables laying around so I could connect 5 fans to the FLEXA FP5 and have another fan connected to the motherboard normally, this would reduce the cabling around the motherboard while having all 6 fans running quieter.

I did have a look at the Aquaero controllers and even the mCubed HFX 113 T-Balancer but the Aquaero are overly expensive and even through the mCubed HFX 113 T-Balancer is around the maximum I would like to spend doesn't have enough fan connectors.

thezakarum · 9 Feb 2012 at 08:29

Having said that though, could I connect three FLEXA FP5's to the T-Balancer connectors, then have the T-Balancer to control the 3 seperate FLEXA FP5's like they were channels?

thezakarum · 9 Feb 2012 at 08:50

The NZXT Sentry 2 looks like a good one too.

So many choices.

thezakarum · 9 Feb 2012 at 09:49

Cleeecooo you're a watercooling veteran, what do you use to control your fans for your radiator?

I have a budget of around £50.

thezakarum · 10 Feb 2012 at 07:59

MAXIBOY said:
just bought an running the Akasa FC. SIX and i love it. five fans on it at the moment but 30w on each channel i guess you could run two or three fans on each one..

not sure what to add does everything ti says on the tin. only thing is leds can only be switched off when fans at zero but doesnt ever both me..

ask in a can answer anything for you

Yeah, that one was one of the controllers I looked at first. Looks very sleek and the leds would go with my rig.

But I saw the bad reviews on some other website, and well, I think I'm going to wait before picking a controller or intill I have sorted the components for watercooling.

Thanks anyway guys.