A-RGB Confusion

[Scotianbank]

Hello LTT Forum, 

 

First post here, hope you guys can welcome me to your community! I'm planning out the parts for my new build, my first build (for myself, second in total, made one a few years back for a cousin).

 

I want to dive head in into customization, and I want to add 3 A-RGB fans, an A-RGB water block, and an A-RGB pump/res combo. The 3 fans are 2 from SilverStone and 1 from CoolerMaster, the pump/res combo, as well as the CPU block are from Alphacool.

 

My motherboard is going to be either the Gigabyte Arorus b450i, or b550i (perhaps an x570i if I happen to find a used one at a good price). All 3 of these boards come with a single A-RGB header (at least the b boards do, not sure if the x has two, but I doubt it).

 

What I want to know, is how can I best, and most affordably, connect those 5 A-RGB devices to my mobo's header? Can I just buy a 5 way splitter (plus any necessary adapters in terms of compatibility, which I think I don't need), and just hook them up to with with Gigabyte's RGB Fusion Software?

 

Can the software an Mobo header differentiate between the 5 different devices, or would it just register as a single A-RGB strip of x length?

 

I consider myself to be quite savvy in terms of computer expertise, but even if I know a bit about the current state of A-RGB/RGB devices, I just haven't had the experience, either directly or with a video, of how to make everything work together seamlessly; all while having just a single A-RGB header, as well as a limited amount of LEDs per header.

 

Can you guys please tell my what I should do? Should I just bite the bullet and buy an A-RGB controlled, and let the PC handle them through their approximate software, or should I just go YOLO and install all daisy with the 5-way splitter strait into the mob.

 

Thanks from a curious/anxious nerd

 

-Scott

[Carbonado]

50 minutes ago, Scotianbank said:

What I want to know, is how can I best, and most affordably, connect those 5 A-RGB devices to my mobo's header?

A rgb splitter / hub can be used, generally a mobo can take upto 300 leds, and youwont be using nearly as much, so a single hub routed will do the trick.

 

51 minutes ago, Scotianbank said:

Can the software an Mobo header differentiate between the 5 different devices, or would it just register as a single A-RGB strip of x length?

Not registered as a single strip, but yeah you can't individually change colors as it gets recognized as a single connection

[Scotianbank]

On 10/27/2020 at 3:22 AM, CouRageRC said:

A rgb splitter / hub can be used, generally a mobo can take upto 300 leds, and youwont be using nearly as much, so a single hub routed will do the trick.

 

Not registered as a single strip, but yeah you can't individually change colors as it gets recognized as a single connection

Thanks for the quick reply!

 

So just to be sure, if I plug the A-RGB devices to the Mobo via a splitter, I'll be able to change the color, but not do it addressable-y? Would it just act as a standard RGB light strip, or could it be that it would act as one A-RGB strip, and whatever effect I apply to the A-RGB header, will be repeated to all LEDs on the devices on the splitter? Or could it be that the splitter by default has a particular order, where it just goes fr one split, to the other in terms of data flow from the A-RGB LEDs.

 

Sorry if I'm sounding confusing, but I'm just confused of what's happening to the return data on such a splitter, and if they even work as A-RGB.