Is there a SpeedFan compatible fan controller (not mobo)?

[kosmarnik]

Hi,
I maxed out my MB fan headers and would still like to control the rest of the fans.
Looking around all fan controllers are either manual or kinda auto based on temp probes.
I would rather have it plug-in somewhere (hmm? a pci card? USB?) and control through SpeedFan

I guess I'm missing something, or I would have found it already.
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Did one more search and found this.
It's a Sunbeam PCI (not really) USB fan controller, though it uses it's own software, which is shite. As far as I see, there is no 3rd party software support for it :/

Anything else? SF support is a must.

[quest_for_silence]

Anything else? SF support is a must.

The mCubed T-Balancer series, I guess.

[scdr]

Have you tried asking the author of Speedfan?

It seems like one should be able to add a fan controller to the SMBus
(some motherboards even used to have headers for connecting to the SMBus).

Then the problem would be getting speedfan to recognize your controller
(since it wouldn't be what is expected for your particular motherboard.)

Of course another way would be to use a microcontroller and have it
emulate whatever device you need on the SMBus.

[kosmarnik]

Anything else? SF support is a must.

The mCubed T-Balancer series, I guess.

On a quick glance, yeah, that seems to be it, but at 60 quid, BigNG is kinda pricy. I can get a new motherboard for that kind of money.