i have 7 120 mm fans in my case and was wondering if anyone knew of any fan controllers that could handle that many fans? thanks..
First off.. if you have 7 fans, you have too many.. there's absolutely NO reason whatesoever to get that many. With decent airflow in your PC you can make due with 1-3 fans.
One for the CPU, possibly one for the GPU unless you go for passive cooling, and possibly one for the PSU (and you use that one for ventilation also).
you dont NEED a zillion case fans if you have decent airflow. And the same goes for HDD fans. In fact if you've done it right, you need NONE.
Also, i'm guessing that a lot of those fans are case fans. So you can control them all with the same unit if you want to, that way you dont really need a controller for 8 fans.
But if you DO want one, I'd say, build it yourself. It's easy to do, and most manufacturers I know of no longer produce the 8 fan controllers. you may be able to get one from someone with a huge inventory, or you can get lucky and get one used. I can't find any new though.
One for the CPU, possibly one for the GPU unless you go for passive cooling, and possibly one for the PSU (and you use that one for ventilation also).
you dont NEED a zillion case fans if you have decent airflow. And the same goes for HDD fans. In fact if you've done it right, you need NONE.
Also, i'm guessing that a lot of those fans are case fans. So you can control them all with the same unit if you want to, that way you dont really need a controller for 8 fans.
But if you DO want one, I'd say, build it yourself. It's easy to do, and most manufacturers I know of no longer produce the 8 fan controllers. you may be able to get one from someone with a huge inventory, or you can get lucky and get one used. I can't find any new though.
i have a coolermaster stacker 830, one on top, 4 on the side one in the front and one in the back, it works reasonably well and gets rid of that "deadspot" of hot air under the gfx card
A/C makes a hell of a cooling unit.
So as I said... You dont NEED an 8 fan controller unit. The four on the side you can control with one switch, and the other three you can put on each their unit and then you only have to look for a four fan controller unit.. those are easy to come by....CommieChipmunk wrote:
i have a coolermaster stacker 830, one on top, 4 on the side one in the front and one in the back, it works reasonably well and gets rid of that "deadspot" of hot air under the gfx card
But the "deadspot" as you call it.... It's easy to get rid of with decent airflow. What I've done with my latest casing is that I've got a duct for the CPU. Much less hazzle, and the hot air gets out of the case FAST. Passive cooling on the GPU, and a huge monster of a PSU with a giant suction that will more or less clean out the entire case.
To get this to work, I make the casing more or less airtight. All major "holes" and precut crap for stuff I'll never need is closed up. The empty drive bays are closed off also. As the PSU is on top, I'll need my airflow to go from the bottom to the top, so I open for the front ventilation hole in the front of the case (Otherwise I'd simply remove a clamp from a PCI slot in the rear if I had not hole to use). I have no window in my PC, so it doesn't have to look good inside, just work right. So I simply use plastic boards to force the air past each component I want to cool in turn. Sort of like hearding cows, except I'm hearding air molecules. Only real downside is that I have to pull in air from the lower front, which means, more dust particles, so I've had to install a small dust filter (got a spare from a vacuumcleaner shop for about a quarter). If your wiring is out of the way, then the air will flow from point "a" to point "b" the fastest way it can.. by "hearding" the air through a "maze" of sorts, I ensure that everything gets a little air. So with two VERY quiet fans, a little tape, a duct and 6 pieces of plastic I have an untra quiet PC with very good cooling (my Intel CPU doesn't even break a sweat when I go BF2) Ambient temp is usually around 1-2 degrees below room temp even at full load.