Not enough headers / Fan doubts

[Teodes]

Hi, my motherboard only has two headers for fans, one with 4 pins for the cpu cooler, and one with 3 pins for the case fan. 

 

My case came with 2 fans (3 pins each), I bought a cpu cooler with ARGB (Aerocool Cyclon 4) and saw that it uses a 6 pin connector, so I bought the Aerocool ARGB controller, to my surprise, this hub only controls the rgb and its not for plugging more fans. 

 

My motherboard doesn't come with an rgb header so I know I won't have software support for my rgb, but I wanted to be able to use the other fan that came with my case. 

 

What are my options?

I thought about buying a fan controller but they use PMW headers (4pin), will it work on a 3 pin header or should I unplug the cpu fan header and use it from the hub? This doesn't seem right... 

 

Should I just use a splitter in the 3 pin header? How would that work in terms of rpm with the 2 fans going off from just one header? 

 

Molex/Sata to 2 fan headers? They would going full speed always? Because if that's how it would work it would be pretty noisy I think, I want to be able to at least put them permanently to 60% or 70%

 

Thanks.

[TetraSky]

31 minutes ago, Teodes said:

Should I just use a splitter in the 3 pin header? How would that work in terms of rpm with the 2 fans going off from just one header? 

 

Molex/Sata to 2 fan headers? They would going full speed always? Because if that's how it would work it would be pretty noisy I think, I want to be able to at least put them permanently to 60% or 70%

Splitting a single header into two shouldn't be much of an issue. Both will operate at the same RPM as dictated in the BIOS for the fan curve.

 

As for molex to fan header... Yes, they would be going at full speed always.

BUT, if you're considering getting good fans, that may not be an issue.

Noctua fans, even at 100%, are pretty damn quiet. And they come with 2 different low noise adapters, which can reduce the speed of the fan (and thus the noise) even further.

Like the NF-S12A or NF-A14 / A15 fans.

[Teodes]

31 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Splitting a single header into two shouldn't be much of an issue. Both will operate at the same RPM as dictated in the BIOS for the fan curve.

 

As for molex to fan header... Yes, they would be going at full speed always.

BUT, if you're considering getting good fans, that may not be an issue.

Noctua fans, even at 100%, are pretty damn quiet. And they come with 2 different low noise adapters, which can reduce the speed of the fan (and thus the noise) even further.

Like the NF-S12A or NF-A14 / A15 fans.

Sadly I live in Argentina, there is an unbelievable lack of stock and variety, the prices are not good and shipping is really expensive, my only option is buying Aerocool fans, specially since a bought the argb hub. 

 

I guess I should buy a fan controller so I could buy more fans in the future, and plug the hub in the 3 pin connector, I won't have PMW but at least I would be able in theory to use more argb fans  just to make use of the hub I already bought...

 

What a nightmare....

[Jeppes]

5 minutes ago, Teodes said:

Sadly I live in Argentina, there is an unbelievable lack of stock and variety, the prices are not good and shipping is really expensive, my only option is buying Aerocool fans, specially since a bought the argb hub. 

 

I guess I should buy a fan controller so I could buy more fans in the future, and plug the hub in the 3 pin connector, I won't have PMW but at least I would be able in theory to use more argb fans  just to make use of the hub I already bought...

 

What a nightmare....

Buy a splitter. Should work just fine if youre not running some insane server grade leaf blowers.

[TetraSky]

Ah, right, that's unfortunate.

If you don't have any alternatives, a fan controller would indeed be the best solution for you.

 

The CPU cooler doesn't have to be connected in the CPU fan header. You can also plug the PWM fan controller/hub onto it, giving you more PWM option.

[Teodes]

1 hour ago, TetraSky said:

The CPU cooler doesn't have to be connected in the CPU fan header. You can also plug the PWM fan controller/hub onto it, giving you more PWM option.

Is this safe? You say that I should plug in the 4 pin header the fan controller and then plug the CPU cooler in the fan controller? Wouldn't that make all the fans connected to the controller go at the same speed or the bios would recognize each fun plugged in the hub individually?

 

I'm not that picky with my fan curves, with being able to set all my case fans to 50%~70% and having the CPU fan working normally I'm happy

 

Why on earth low-end motherboards came with so few fan connectors? Smh