Should I Care About Fan Headers When Buying Mother Board?

[datho]

Hey guys,

for my new PC I decided to pick a Gogabyte HD3P Z170 mobo.

Yesterday I decided on CPU cooler and noticed I can add 2nd fan to it.

I realized my mobo have only 1 header for CPU and 3 for case fans. Do you think I should take another mobo or just buy a fan controller in case I really need the extra fan on the CPU heatsink?

Thanks!

[CookieMaster]

Depends on your build, I like to have enough for my fans. 

[ARikozuM]

Fan controller or Y-adapter should suffice if it's PWM.

[johnny5c]

I personally prefer a fan hub because it makes cable management much easier and cleaner.

[datho]

8 hours ago, johnny5c said:

I personally prefer a fan hub because it makes cable management much easier and cleaner.

Any recommendeations? The 5.25" ones look pretty decent

8 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Fan controller or Y-adapter should suffice if it's PWM.

But won't it decrease the speed, becuase the current is limited?

 

8 hours ago, CookieMaster said:

Depends on your build, I like to have enough for my fans. 

It's 6700K build, no GPU (yet). Probably 3 case fans and two CPU fans are more than enough. (my case, nzxt s340 probably, comes with 2 fans)/

 

[johnny5c]

9 hours ago, datho said:

Any recommendeations? The 5.25" ones look pretty decent

 

There's a lot of good front panel controllers, my wife has the NZXT Sentry Mesh and it's pretty basic but works great.

 

I'm using a internal PWM hub.  I like it because better than a manual controller because the motherboard adjusts the speed according to the temps.

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