- Joined
- Jul 14, 2003
My buddy bought one of these Silverstone fan hubs : https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-System-Cables-Black-CPF04/dp/B00VNW556I
He wanted a way to control his fans, or have the motherboard do it, instead of all of them running at full blast. His motherboard only has 1 free header other than the CPU header, so a fan hub was needed to get his 5 120mm fans up and running. I actually previously had them up running using 3pin to molex adapters. Either way, when all was said and done it was very very loud. I tried configuring speedfan on his setup to try to voltage control the header the fan hub was connected to, to try to slow them down. No luck. Makes sense considering its pulling power from its own power connector.
So i came across these wires that have a resistor in them to bring them down to 7v which is like a "medium" setting i take it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007PPHKO2/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_sX36xbBFQYCVE
I advised to plug one of those in between each fan and its connector on the fan hub, as opposed to one of those wired between the fan hub and the hub's power (too much for that little resistor to handle i figured, with 5 fans running off it instead of 1). That gave me another idea then....a potentiometer or a rheostat wired in between the fan hub and the hub's power. However, the only solutions i found to this idea seemed to point that usage of a pot/rheo should be limited to just 1 per fan. I could be wrong, just cant seem to find as much info as I'd like.
Anyways, do you guys have any suggestions? Im thinking the most straightforward solution is using each fan speed reducer cable in between each fan and its plug on the fan hub. However this thing also caught my eye....
https://www.amazon.com/Evercool-Twi...76276&sr=1-2&keywords=evercool+fan+controller
Maybe this thing could be used between the hub and its power?
He wanted a way to control his fans, or have the motherboard do it, instead of all of them running at full blast. His motherboard only has 1 free header other than the CPU header, so a fan hub was needed to get his 5 120mm fans up and running. I actually previously had them up running using 3pin to molex adapters. Either way, when all was said and done it was very very loud. I tried configuring speedfan on his setup to try to voltage control the header the fan hub was connected to, to try to slow them down. No luck. Makes sense considering its pulling power from its own power connector.
So i came across these wires that have a resistor in them to bring them down to 7v which is like a "medium" setting i take it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007PPHKO2/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_sX36xbBFQYCVE
I advised to plug one of those in between each fan and its connector on the fan hub, as opposed to one of those wired between the fan hub and the hub's power (too much for that little resistor to handle i figured, with 5 fans running off it instead of 1). That gave me another idea then....a potentiometer or a rheostat wired in between the fan hub and the hub's power. However, the only solutions i found to this idea seemed to point that usage of a pot/rheo should be limited to just 1 per fan. I could be wrong, just cant seem to find as much info as I'd like.
Anyways, do you guys have any suggestions? Im thinking the most straightforward solution is using each fan speed reducer cable in between each fan and its plug on the fan hub. However this thing also caught my eye....
https://www.amazon.com/Evercool-Twi...76276&sr=1-2&keywords=evercool+fan+controller
Maybe this thing could be used between the hub and its power?
