To many fans ?

[Landon1028]

I'm going to be upgrading my case soon to anidees AI Crystal Cube AR V2 and it says it supports up to 12 fans which being how I am I want to utilize that and smack 12 fans in the case but my problem is that I dont think my Asus B350-F motherboard will have enough pins to connect all of the fans , any solution or ideas you guys or gals have would be great.

[LukeSavenije]

either a splitter or a fan controller

[Dedayog]

Post pics too, this should be good.

 

 

Curious if this will produce proper airflow or just create a messy turbulent effect in the case.

[TheNaitsyrk]

34 minutes ago, Landon1028 said:

I'm going to be upgrading my case soon to anidees AI Crystal Cube AR V2 and it says it supports up to 12 fans which being how I am I want to utilize that and smack 12 fans in the case but my problem is that I dont think my Asus B350-F motherboard will have enough pins to connect all of the fans , any solution or ideas you guys or gals have would be great.

NZXT Sentry 3 is a good one. Used it always, awesome little fan controller.

[paddy-stone]

42 minutes ago, Landon1028 said:

I'm going to be upgrading my case soon to anidees AI Crystal Cube AR V2 and it says it supports up to 12 fans which being how I am I want to utilize that and smack 12 fans in the case but my problem is that I dont think my Asus B350-F motherboard will have enough pins to connect all of the fans , any solution or ideas you guys or gals have would be great.

As others suggested a fan splitter/controller would do the trick... depending on the fans in question, you might have to get their particular fan controller anyway especially if RGB individual addressable.

[Landon1028]

4 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

As others suggested a fan splitter/controller would do the trick... depending on the fans in question, you might have to get their particular fan controller anyway especially if RGB individual addressable.

I saw some nice looking fans on amazon , the thermaltake riing plus and was prob gonna drop 300 on fans alone but now I wonder what would be smarter , putting the exhaust and intake on separate controllers or just have them all together 

[TVwazhere]

-Threads merged-

 

Please refrain from making duplicate posts in the future.

[paddy-stone]

18 hours ago, Landon1028 said:

I saw some nice looking fans on amazon , the thermaltake riing plus and was prob gonna drop 300 on fans alone but now I wonder what would be smarter , putting the exhaust and intake on separate controllers or just have them all together 

It's up to you as it's your money, but you most likely won't see much difference between having say a couple of intakes and 1 exhaust, to having it completely full... diminishing returns and all that jazz. You'd be better off getting a good WC setup in the first place IMO.

[Tristerin]

Ive run 15 fans in a case before, all tuned down in RPM to meet my dBA requirements all while producing a very cool exhausting machine.  Just ensure you control the RPMs to control the sound level.  

 

Right now I have a custom loop running in my gaming rig with 8x Arctic P12's and its silent and my OC is cold as ice.  I also recommend Arctic P12's as they come in a bulk pack and are very affordable.

[kotenok]

On 8/16/2019 at 8:51 AM, jstudrawa said:

Post pics too, this should be good.

 

 

Curious if this will produce proper airflow or just create a messy turbulent effect in the case.

Diminishing result - you can't get lower than the ambient temperature, also fans create a bit of heat themselves, I think.

[AngryBeaver]

1 hour ago, Tristerin said:

Ive run 15 fans in a case before, all tuned down in RPM to meet my dBA requirements all while producing a very cool exhausting machine.  Just ensure you control the RPMs to control the sound level.  

 

Right now I have a custom loop running in my gaming rig with 8x Arctic P12's and its silent and my OC is cold as ice.  I also recommend Arctic P12's as they come in a bulk pack and are very affordable.

I am on the fence with getting the p14's for my upcoming build. I normally go with the ML's, but this time around I am thinking of going with a cheaper fan. 25bucks per fan when I can get p14's for around 7-10 doesn't make sense. Plus I am going to go with 2 560mm rads in a 900 tower. So needing 16 fans if I want to push/pull all of them would make ML's a huge money sink for probably little to no performance gain in that scenario.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

u can never have too many fans aslong ur ears allow for it,  more airflow is better cooling,  the question is .  do u want 12fans that idle at 5watt each and the noise that come with it when u can do just fine with 6

[AngryBeaver]

2 hours ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

u can never have too many fans aslong ur ears allow for it,  more airflow is better cooling,  the question is .  do u want 12fans that idle at 5watt each and the noise that come with it when u can do just fine with 6

This isn't always necessarily true. You hit a point of diminishing returns and also depending on your case setup the turbulence all of those fans create could also reduce the effectiveness of your cooling and actually cause heat to building up in your case.