is there any way to slow down molex connected fans

tey

tey

tey

Associate
Joined
3 Nov 2011
Posts
82
Hi there forgive me if this is the wrong section, i recently bought 3 extra corsair af120 fans to vastly improve airflow in my corsair carbide but there is a slight nuisance as the fans are most definately not quiet as stated on the box, quite the opposite infact
I bought a 5way pwm splitter in hopes that would remedy the issue in addition to me not wanting to run 5 fans off the single motherboard header, is there anyway i can reduce the fan rpm of all 4 and soon 5 case fans which are all connected to a 2 pin molex 5 way akasa fp5 splitter, i have tried removing the motherboard header incase that was leading to extra juice to power the fans which did not help, does anyone have a suggestion to slow down all the fan rpms so my pc doesnt sound like a mini jet
 
tey said:
Will that work if i string them off the 5 way splitter?
Click to expand...

I don't know. You'd need one low noise adapter per fan for sure. You couldn't have just one adapter with the splitter. You'd need to attach the adapters to the ends of the splitter, and that way it might work.

A possible issue might be that the splitter is for PWM fans and you bought non-PWM fans.

See, if you got something like the following, I'm more confident it would all work:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CM-136-BX

That would send 12v down every lead, and each attached low noise adapter would reduce it to close to 9v.

But it's for 3 fans only, not 5.

Maybe someone else will have a better idea. Unless you buy more of those adapters. But then you're already into fan controller price territory. :)
 
The akasa 5way splitter is the exact same except for it being a 5 way and including a pwm header which isnt needed to function, is there any reasonably priced 5 slot fan controllers?
 
just bought an nzxt sentry 2 off ebay for £16, seemed a much better alternative than dacking about with cables
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom