• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Fan controller question

W

wasteomind

Gawd
Joined
Aug 13, 2004
Messages
522
Hey guys I'm gonna have a water cooling setup in the next week or so and need some help figuring out fan control for my rads.

I'm going to have a 120x4 or 480 rad in push/pull config. So basicly I need to control the speed of 8 fans. What I want to do is basicly have one control knob to control the speed of all 8 fans, and I'd like all 8 fans to be spinning at the same speed to balance the air flow through the rad.

I'm assuming I'd need some sort of power distribution board or block that is powered from the psu, problem is I have yet to see one that can handle 8 fans, (or even getting 2 that do 4 each) that doesn't cut the power to 8v, 7v, or 5v on 2 or more of the outputs.

Ideally, I want to be able to push max power to the fans when the controller is set to max. I've been reading about how some fan controllers don't seem to allow max rpm when connected. Also, I was hoping that turning the knob all the way to low would cut power fully (or as much as possible) so I can run passive when no load is on.

The other option I suppose would be to just solder all the leads together on the fans and hook it up to a single fan controller, but I'm not sure if this would lead to issues with the rails on a psu?

Any help would be great thanks.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top