Vinchucca
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Ok so hub installed and yay it works! I get a readout of the fan speed again (well 1 fan, the CPU fan, but that's the most important one so I am OK with that) and more importantly the noise level has gone done tremendously. My review of the Phanteks hub itself though is a bit different. It comes with the shortest cables I have ever seen. I mean this is an ITX build and I still had trouble routing the cables between the hub and where they needed to go. Also even though this is a Phanteks Evolv ITX TG and there are promotional pictures out there showing the hub screwed to the inside of the frame, it won't fit like that. Lastly, this is a cheap piece of plastic and a little printplate...this should not cost 20+ euro Having said that I am happy how it turned out and I thank everybody here, especially MkaiL, for helping a newbie figuring this out. Cheers!
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Correct I don't want pwm control necessarily. Just some way of slowing down the fans when I am doing light computer work (checking mails, browsing web,...) and ramping them up when I play games. DC should be fine for doing that. Anyway I ordered the hub and will report back when I installed it (probably next weekend). Cheers!
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Sorry to bother everyone again but just to be 100% sure I am trying to hook up: -1x 4pin CPU fan -3x 3pin casefan All from the same single PWM header on the mobo You can confirm this Phanteks hub will do that? Reason I am asking is I only see 1x 4pin connection in the pictures on that hub which I think is needed for the PWM input signal coming from the mobo. So can I use the white 3pin header to power my 4pin CPU fan (and still have control over the speed)? The only other fan header I have on my mobo is SYS_FAN but turn out that's one of those "fake" 4pin header with no PWM so that won't work
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Aha! See I am kinda new to this and I felt like I was missing something obvious Thanks for helping me troubleshoot. So this McGuffin right here should work fine for what I intend to do? https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Phanteks-PWM-Fan-Hub/381546749310?hash=item58d5f55d7e:g:-vcAAOSwFNZWwfpF Also btw: awesome build in your autograph
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I am using 3pin fans though (corsair AF120's)
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Hey thanks for the reply. If I plug the CPU fan directly into the header I get an rpm readout and it's speed fluctuates between 500 - 900rpm. So I think the mobo header is fine. Might be a faulty/crappy hub. I figured a simple printplate with a few fan headers shouldn't cost that much but maybe I was wrong. Any brands/types you can recommend? Gr
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No other than this fatal failure (killing both mobo and cpu by the way) I never experienced any issues with the mobo. In fact I got the mobo RMA'd (turns out msi has 3y warranty on mobo's yay!) and it works just fine now.
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Hey, So I decided to upgrade my rig with a PMW fan hub to hook up all my fans and to hopefully run them more quietly than was currently the situation. So I bought this fan hub: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B077PK9Q7B/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I hooked up the hub to the CPU_FAN header on my MSI Z370I PRO GAMING mobo (which I verified in the manual has PMW functionality). Then I hooked up the CPU fan to the white header on the hub (marked CPU-5) and finally connected my case fans to pins 0-2 on the hub. The result? All fans blast 100% all the time even though there should be a "smart ramp-up curve" set in the BIOS. Also I am not getting any rpm readouts on any of the fans. What am I doing wrong? Thank you so much for any pointers you can provide. Cheers!
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Just wanted to come back to this topic for a second and tell the sad news: CPU seems broken too. Got a new motherboard. Hooked everything up. I powers to a POST now even with the 8pin connected, so I got further than I did before. But sadly the POST-LED for the CPU keeps burning and I never actually get to the BIOS. I am still baffled this happenend and I will probably never know what exactly went wrong but for now it seems whatever killed my motherboard took the CPU out with it.
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Even though I am just talking to mysefl here now I'd like to give another update maybe it'll help somebody someday...who knows? So to recap the situation: test 1) 24pin + 8pin connected + CPU seated = NO POST test 2) 24pin + CPU seated but 8pin NOT connected = POST (but obviously the POST fails since the CPU is not detected) test 3) 24pin + 8pin connected but CPU NOT seated = NO POST So out of the 3 things involved in this process: CPU, MOBO and PSU I ruled out the CPU since in test (3) the CPU was not present and the system still failed to reach POST. The PSU seems unlikely too since the 24pin is clearly providing power to the MOBO in test (2). However to rule this out completely I used a VOLT meter and found that the CPU is providing a steady 12V on that 8pin connector, confirming that the PSU is unlikely the cause for this mess. Using that VOLT meter again the 8pin connector on the MOBO displays strange behaviour and seems to be shorted. No idea how this happenend or what -if anything- I did wrong. There is also no physical sign that anything is wrong with the MOBO. Since the mobo is no longer covered under warranty I am just going to order a new one and hope the CPU was not damaged in this whole process.
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Also ordering parts and sending back what I don't need isn't an option in Belgium. They only refund if the product is unopenend and unused.
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Did a final test and took out the CPU completly. I only plugged in the CPU fan (because I know some motherboards dont power on if nothig is detected in that fanheader). I plugged in the 8pin and...no POST. Since the CPU isnt there I expected this to go to POST again but fail the CPU (pretty much as it did when the 8pin wasn't plugged in). So this is weird and seems to point back at either the PSU or the mobo. Took out the 8pin again and system went to POST (but failed again -as expected) for no CPU. I feel like I am going in circles.
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No that's the thing I can NOT get into post WITH the CPU. I can get into POST only WITHOUT the CPU and evidently fail said POST because no CPU is recognised. I could try buying some parts and sending them back after testing. I am only a bit worried that I might kill new parts too since I don't know what went wrong but I guess i'll have to find my builder confidence back
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For the sake of being thorough I took out the cpu. Cleaned it. Reinstalled it and put the cpu cooler back up. But the result remains the same. I can power up the cpu fan, the mobo and the PSU if I only plug in the 24pin leading me to a failed CPU POST (which is expected since the 8pin is not plugged in), but when I add the 8pin and try to boot again I don't even get to post. I think my conclusion is the cpu is toast. I have no idea how this happened since I didn't touch the cpu in the moving process from case a to b, but it is what it is I suppose
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The build is already entirely out of the case at this point and I have somewhat narrowed it down. The only way I can get some sign of life is to plug in only the 24pin and a stick of RAM. It obviously failed the POST but at least this way it gets to a POST. The moment I plug in the 8pin for the cpu it is dead. However this I think still leaves 2 options open: - the 8pin cable coming from the psu is broken? - the cpu is fried? And I am not too sure how to proceed from here VID_20171231_181031.mp4
