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I want to reduce the fan noise in my case, and rather than buy a fan controller a couple of Zalman Fan Mate 2's (OA-000-ZA) would seem to do the job...

Are they any good, and can I just hook them up to the existing case fans. I assume they work by reducing the voltage?
 
OK thanks, ill give them a bash :D
for £3 each, ill get a couple as the splitters are only £1 or so cheaper.
 
Word of warning, I would NEVER use a splitter from the motherboard, fan controller in a drive bay with a molex powering it yes go ahead.

On the motherboard the headers are designed to only work with a certain drain on them, adding 2 fans will double this, not a good idea.

Some fans may be perfectly alright, but remember a single delta fan draws to much for the header, and I bet most fans will be drawing 60% from the header.

It just sounds to me like a sure way to kill your motherboard daisy chaining fans of it, you have to stick to one fan to one header, or it gets into a very risky buisness.
 
providing the DFI NF4 Ultra has enough fan headers, I will be running 2 case fans, and one cpu fan from the motherboard using the Zalman controllers (without splitters). If not, I will run them from a molex with an adapter.

The CPU fan is the one that comes with a Big Typhoon which i believe runs at 1300rpm and should be quiet anyway...?
 
Do not beleive Tt fan specs, they are a mile off, at full pelt the typhoons fan is audable to say the least, but during normal PC operation it is not too bad.

I am a noise freak though :p
 
Ah well, if it's too loud i'll shove a quieter fan on there.
I would have preferred a ninja but OCuK didn't have them in stock.
 
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