Please help me sort out information about fans. I will have 8 total once I'm done with this build. (I'll never be done with this build.) I have one cpu fan port and 4 sys fan ports. Also 1 rbg and 1 arbg port.
1) I took some crappy fans out of a case. They have one 3 pin cord and one molex. The fan blades are purple. On one side of each fan there is a wire coming from the center and teensy light bulb aimed at the blades. They're called LED in the ad for the case. Is that really rbg?
2) I have a 4 pack of Rosewill fans on its way to me and they are also 3 pin and a molex. No light bulb or colored fan blades though - not rbg. DC.
3) I only use one of the connectors, correct? Either the 3 pin thingy or the molex, not both, right? And should I get a hub or a bunch of splitters? I'm not worried about controlling them so much as I thought a fan splitter between say, two, would split up the power between them so they each run at half the power. I can't afford to lose some airflow.
4) Besides the 2 crappy case fans I have 3 more rbg fans: 2 on my heatsink for my cpu and 1 Sickleflow.
5) I have one lonely pwm fan: a Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200. This is a weird fan that Noctua calls a "case fan" but it was recced to me as an exhaust fan. I should use it as an intake fan though, right?
6) OK, so:
The 2 cpu fans can be split to fit the cpu fan port. That makes 2 rbg though.
The new case has 1 arbg exhaust and arbg section on the front. The arbg cords go the arbg hub it has installed. The power will be...either pwm or molex I guess. Let's say pwm. That's 1 pwm.
I will used the Noctua, that makes 2 pwm.
The Sickleflow makes 3 rbg and 3 pwm.
The 2 purple fans will make 4 rbg and 2 dc.
1 Rosewill fan will make 3 dc.
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Totals:
2 cpu fans, splitter, cpu fan port
2 for the arbg hub
4 rbg, daisy chain, rbg fan port - not sure if that's a good idea with 3 pin and 4 pin together
3 pwm, sys fan ports 1 and 2
3 dc - splitter (2) and splitter with pwm, sys fan ports 3 and 4
Is this the best way to go about it?
1) I took some crappy fans out of a case. They have one 3 pin cord and one molex. The fan blades are purple. On one side of each fan there is a wire coming from the center and teensy light bulb aimed at the blades. They're called LED in the ad for the case. Is that really rbg?
2) I have a 4 pack of Rosewill fans on its way to me and they are also 3 pin and a molex. No light bulb or colored fan blades though - not rbg. DC.
3) I only use one of the connectors, correct? Either the 3 pin thingy or the molex, not both, right? And should I get a hub or a bunch of splitters? I'm not worried about controlling them so much as I thought a fan splitter between say, two, would split up the power between them so they each run at half the power. I can't afford to lose some airflow.
4) Besides the 2 crappy case fans I have 3 more rbg fans: 2 on my heatsink for my cpu and 1 Sickleflow.
5) I have one lonely pwm fan: a Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200. This is a weird fan that Noctua calls a "case fan" but it was recced to me as an exhaust fan. I should use it as an intake fan though, right?
6) OK, so:
The 2 cpu fans can be split to fit the cpu fan port. That makes 2 rbg though.
The new case has 1 arbg exhaust and arbg section on the front. The arbg cords go the arbg hub it has installed. The power will be...either pwm or molex I guess. Let's say pwm. That's 1 pwm.
I will used the Noctua, that makes 2 pwm.
The Sickleflow makes 3 rbg and 3 pwm.
The 2 purple fans will make 4 rbg and 2 dc.
1 Rosewill fan will make 3 dc.
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Totals:
2 cpu fans, splitter, cpu fan port
2 for the arbg hub
4 rbg, daisy chain, rbg fan port - not sure if that's a good idea with 3 pin and 4 pin together
3 pwm, sys fan ports 1 and 2
3 dc - splitter (2) and splitter with pwm, sys fan ports 3 and 4
Is this the best way to go about it?
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