How do Akasa fan controllers work?

[kirkster]

Going to get the Akasa Eclipse 62 and the Akasa fan controller.

Dees the fan controller fit in series with the fans in the case? My CPU cooler, case fans etc? Where do the thermostats fit? How does the fan controller know when to switch the fans off and on? Does this overide BIOS settings?

A bit bewildered.....

 

[musicman53]

Going to get the Akasa Eclipse 62 and the Akasa fan controller.

Dees the fan controller fit in series with the fans in the case? My CPU cooler, case fans etc? Where do the thermostats fit? How does the fan controller know when to switch the fans off and on? Does this overide BIOS settings?

A bit bewildered.....

All it does is connect to the main 12volt line from a PSU and the fans connect to the controller.
Each fan then can have it's supply voltage decreased or increased as needed.
As to connecting the cpu fan, I would not.
Any bios settings regarding fan control are not seen by the fans as the fans are powered via the controller and in turn, the main 12volt supply.
Any setting in the bios has no way of doing anything regarding fan speed or anything else.

 

[kirkster]

Thanks for the reply.

How does it know "if needed" though? Where are the fan sensors to tell the controller that fan x needs some more juice, fan y needs to slow down a bit etc, etc?

 

[WJA96]

Don't do it. If your case fans are too loud, get better case fans. The voltage adjustment isn't seamless, it's stepped, and the reality is that they generally run flat out in a performance system anyway.

Depending on what motherboard and CPU cooler you have, a trio of Arctic Cooling 12cm PWM fans will be a much better investment as then the motherboard will control them seamlessly and directly.

 

[Cupra]

Don't do it. If your case fans are too loud, get better case fans. The voltage adjustment isn't seamless, it's stepped, and the reality is that they generally run flat out in a performance system anyway.

Depending on what motherboard and CPU cooler you have, a trio of Arctic Cooling 12cm PWM fans will be a much better investment as then the motherboard will control them seamlessly and directly.

agreed

also cheap fans sometimes buzz when undervolting

 

[musicman53]

I have thought about using case fans with built in sensors so they can self ajust speed as needed.
Also my motherboard has only two bios/software controlled fan headers out of the four that are there.
One is the cpu fan header(4 pin pwm or 3 pin not controlled) and the system fan header(3pin semi controlled).
I tend to go for Akasa Ambers but right now I have the original case fans in use in the P180.
My cpu fan is quiet until it kicks in when needed(not often)and other than that at the settings I use the case fans on,there is hardly any fan noise.