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So I am a newbie into setting up cooling. I purchased an Asus Maximus X Hero along with a Corsair 570x which comes in with 3 fans. I ordered a Deepcool Gammaxx GT air cooler along as well in order to cool the i5 8600k cpu I got.

I felt it would be nicer to add in a few more fans to get a bit more RGB vibe on it and order a 3 pack HD120 fans. 

 

Now comes the problem. I didn't forsee at all the number of 4 pin headers available to make this connection. I have to use the chassis fan 1,2,3 to setup the already available SP120s of the corsair 570x case. In addition to that I will be using the CPU FAN1 to control the air cooler. 

 

Looking at the motherboard manually shows me that I do have a few more 4 pin headers left on the board but I don't know if it's a good idea to use the remaining headers to setup my HD120s. 

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I believe that header is a constant one that you cannot control, but I'd check the manual.

Edit: Just looked, the default is fixed, but can be changed in the BIOS.

 

Also remember not to connect the HD fans to the SP hub. A lot of people make that error, so just a heads up. You have to use the hub that comes w/ it.

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Why not? The mobo can handle all of them at once without problem.

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11 minutes ago, evila89 said:

So I am a newbie into setting up cooling. I purchased an Asus Maximus X Hero along with a Corsair 570x which comes in with 3 fans. I ordered a Deepcool Gammaxx GT air cooler along as well in order to cool the i5 8600k cpu I got.

I felt it would be nicer to add in a few more fans to get a bit more RGB vibe on it and order a 3 pack HD120 fans. 

 

Now comes the problem. I didn't forsee at all the number of 4 pin headers available to make this connection. I have to use the chassis fan 1,2,3 to setup the already available SP120s of the corsair 570x case. In addition to that I will be using the CPU FAN1 to control the air cooler. 

 

Looking at the motherboard manually shows me that I do have a few more 4 pin headers left on the board but I don't know if it's a good idea to use the remaining headers to setup my HD120s. 

You can try, but i would just get a fan hub that connects via USB 2.0

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16 minutes ago, Legendarypoet said:

I believe that header is a constant one that you cannot control, but I'd check the manual.

I took a look at the manual and I do see something interesting. So the Maximus X Hero has this setup called Q-Fan and can control the following. Looks like I can control all of these (include AIO_PUMP and W_PUMP+) using Q-Fan control by setting them to PWM and assigning a fan curve ( 2nd screenshot ).

 

I can give this a shot. Do you think it's safe ? Would it cause any damage to other components on the board ? 

 

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2 minutes ago, evila89 said:

I took a look at the manual and I do see something interesting. So the Maximus X Hero has this setup called Q-Fan and can control the following. Looks like I can control all of these (include AIO_PUMP and W_PUMP+) using Q-Fan control by setting them to PWM and assigning a fan curve ( 2nd screenshot ).

 

I can give this a shot. Do you think it's safe ? Would it cause any damage to other components on the board ? 

 

 

 

 

 

Should be fine. I looked at the manual since I wasn't doing anything.

Do checked the warning in my original edited post about the HDs.

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28 minutes ago, Legendarypoet said:

Should be fine. I looked at the manual since I wasn't doing anything.

Do checked the warning in my original edited post about the HDs.

Excellent. Oh yeah, I did note this one Luke said this on his review on the 570x. Thanks a lot for clearing this up man. Appreciate it. I will post an update as soon as I have put the rig together.

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Just use fan splitters or even a fan hub, especially if you have a lot of fans that you want to be controlled by the CPU temp for example. Fan splitters are pretty cheap, maybe a few dollars, hubs can run to about $20 maybe, I have a thermaltake commander 10 port hub, very small and powers from a sata connector... comes with the lead to connect to to the PWM header. Just bear on mind that ALL fans connected to the hub will run at the same percentage set in your fan curve for the CPU/mobo etc. If it's just a few fans then splitters would be best and much cheaper.

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51 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Just use fan splitters or even a fan hub, especially if you have a lot of fans that you want to be controlled by the CPU temp for example. Fan splitters are pretty cheap, maybe a few dollars, hubs can run to about $20 maybe, I have a thermaltake commander 10 port hub, very small and powers from a sata connector... comes with the lead to connect to to the PWM header. Just bear on mind that ALL fans connected to the hub will run at the same percentage set in your fan curve for the CPU/mobo etc. If it's just a few fans then splitters would be best and much cheaper.

I hear ya, under normal circumstances that's what I would have done, or even got a corsair commander pro to handle the fans, but at the moment I have access to neither. Looks like the board functionality can keep me going till the next month till I get a commander pro down :)

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On 11/19/2017 at 7:14 PM, Legendarypoet said:

Should be fine. I looked at the manual since I wasn't doing anything.

Do checked the warning in my original edited post about the HDs.

Alright so I took a look at the bios. It appears that it doesn't allow controlling the aio header or the wpump+ header ( the fan curve is not adjustable when I select aio header or wpump+ ). Any other options you would recommend ?

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6 hours ago, evila89 said:

Alright so I took a look at the bios. It appears that it doesn't allow controlling the aio header or the wpump+ header ( the fan curve is not adjustable when I select aio header or wpump+ ). Any other options you would recommend ?

The Corsair Commander Pro for sure.

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Hi, so I actually got it to work. Just switch to pwm mode on the aio and the curve becomes editable in bios :)

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12 hours ago, evila89 said:

Hi, so I actually got it to work. Just switch to pwm mode on the aio and the curve becomes editable in bios :)

Yeah its under advanced settings. As long as you stick under 1a for each header you'll be allright. I have two fans on each on my strix board. 

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