Is there a Bitfenix rep in the house?

[Cenedd]

I've just bought some Bitfenix Alchemy 3x3-pin fan splitters. I've left a review but I'd love to see the product improved - or a variation made available for radiator use, if more applicable.

Are Bitfenix interested and does anyone else have any comments for them?

Gareth


This was my review:

The main problem with these is that the tacho wire is connected to all three fans. This will mean that the speed reading will be garbage.

The lengths are all wrong too - although, you cannot please everyone. Surely the primary use for these is going to be to run three rad fans on a single controller channel. That being the case, you want a long cable from the controller to the first plug and then two short hops (almost zero length) to the next two. The length doesn't make it useless (it just makes it less tidy) but the tacho issue means I have to mod these to make them useable.

The cloth braiding is very nice as has been said...but it's too loose.

 

[Tealc]

They probably went for appearance over function with that one. Still it is a fairly poor design if the 3 tach wires are all joined together to the master plug. Are they actually all spliced in to the main connector?

 

[Cenedd]

They're daisy-chained: 3 wires (one set) out the master going to first fan header, then 3 wires back out to the next and so on.
Did try it as is on an Aquaero 5 and it's more stable than I've seen before but the reading does jump around from about 400 rpm to about right. Didn't see any massively high results which was unexpected.
There's just no benefit in all being connected as you can't tell individual speeds, you can't even tell if one has failed.