The concept is flawed because one single pwm header rely on one single digital probe, in other words if you connect say your cpu/gpu fans on the same header it makes no sense.The mobo will automatically raise up the speed of both fans even though the gpu, most likely, might not need such a speed in...

Just to be controversial I've been thinking about this less fans concept and thinking more in terms of air flow. If I disconnected the two input fans at the front of the case, the side intake and the foremost 140mm roof exhaust I'm thinking that the airflow could be more directed with that configura...

Sussed it. I think.... Basically I can have the rear exhaust, CPU fan (just one and settle for a pull configuration to clear the two empty memory sockets for later) and the top front intake off of the CPU PWM header. Next rig up the side and bottom intake to chassis 1 (I think that's the right one f...

I would strongly advise against running more than 2 low power fans on a single motherboard header, you will very likely end up damaging it. Weird thing is I checked the motherboard manual last night hunting for the fan controller specs and after bad mouthing them yesterday I found the precise infor...

You could then buy Gelid 12 Thermal controlled fans : http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=2&cid=5&id=27 But all these solutions have one problem - they have their own logic when to ramp up the fans, it's not like the bigNG "i can define my own fan speed vs temperature curve" :). Ye...

Typical. Find something cool and not extortionate then find out that no one in the UK stocks it... Damn. I'm betting that importing would be more effort than speedfan. I'll try the software and if that doesn't work I'll have to balance the bigNG versus importing these doohickeys. They do look cool t...

Just a thought : I use Noisemagic NMT-3 automatic fan controlers : http://www.frozencpu.com/products/5298/tmp-30/NoiseMagic_ThemoControl_NMT-3_w_3-pin_Connector.html I'm quite happy with them. (but don't pay what frozenCPU sells them for, I got 3 for that price) Cool. That could work. Esp for the i...

I'd not actually thought of the combined wattage... A quick window shop around and I did find 6 way fan splitters for 3 pin fans though and I think the board (if memory serves) can do either PWM control or the old 3 pin manner but with combined wattage I'm going to need to do some calculation. One t...

Look, in Define R2 case i have no problems cooling down a passive Atom + ION board (generating heat of 50C 24/7) + 8 hard drives with 3 Noiseblocker Multiframe fans running at minimum allowed by fan controller bundled to the case. The front 2 intakes are ok to have, the outtake 12cm fan is ok to ha...

I have the NZXT sentry2, i use it with non pwm fans.It don't support pwm fans since it only have 2 pins on each of the 5 outputs (or molex adaptator). The NZXT's minimum fan speed control (like most fan controllers i believe) is 40%. 40% of what you may ask (I asked myself too).Answer is: 40% of th...

No, the Y cable doesn' split the voltage in half, it only makes the current draw higher because you got two fans instead of one (they are connected in parallel, not serial). And sorry, but there is no case which needs 4 intake and 3 outtake fans, period. 4-6 fans (including the internal ones, exclu...

1) Do you need to have 6 separate speeds, or you can get some fans to Y fan splitter and have them both run at same speed ? That way you could have 4 fans controlled as 2 fans, and the remaining 2 would be both alone. I'm probably going to make an ass out of myself for asking this but wouldn't that...

The question is what do you mean with "T-Balancer". It is a whole family of products. bigNG - I did look at this and thought that £60 was a tad on the expensive side but figured that if it'd do the whole system it'd be worth it. It does only list 4 channels though which brings me back to the quest...

Based on recent reviews and experience I'd avoid Seasonic right now. It seems that results vary according to where it's made and there's some dogs available with that sticker on them. Personally I bought the 850HW after trying to persuade a dodgy Seasonic to work and the Corsair has remained dead qu...

I guess I should go more into the point of the cooling setup. I used to water cool but after a few leaks (shall we say 3 or 4 rebuilds due to leaks!!!) I went back to air cooling. What I'm trying to do (without spending a ton of cash) is build an aircooling setup which responds to the heat of the co...

Howdo, I checked all the FAQs which seemed relevant and I don't think this is covered, apologies if I'm incorrect. Right, I've got my system all set up and most of the fans in my Fractal Designs R2 on PWM. Basically I got a splitter and the three apache blacks (two on the megahalems and one on the e...