daisy chain How many and that type of fans can the Arctic liquid Freezer II 360 manage (daisy chaining)?

[gal-m]

As you know the Arctic liquid Freezer II 360 AIO features three stock Arctic P12 fans, which are daisy chained TOGETHER with the pump.

What does this mean? The 3 fans + the pump is essentially a SINGLE cable that you plug in to the motherboard's pump header.

 

QUESTION: Would e.g. three daisy chained (plugged into the Arctic LF II AIO daisy chaining cable) Corsair LL120 fans work just as well, or would that present a problem? The reason I'm asking is due to possible power requirements. I presume there is no issue, but would still like some advice, as I am still planning some things.

 

I'm going to be powering the LED's separately via the Corsair Commander Pro.

 

The main build:

• CPU: 5900X
• Cooler: Arctic LF II 360
• Motherboard: ROG X570 Strix-E
• Memory: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3600
• GPU: waiting for the potential release of the RTX 3080 Ti, and for anyone asking - no I don't mind the wait, even with my components waiting quietly in storage at the moment  
• Storage: 970 EVO Plus 2TB
• PSU: Corsair RM1000x

 

 

 

Since I'm still planning this build I presume this can be posted under New Builds and Planning? If not I apologize in advance, thank you for understanding.

[jaslion]

Well the corsair fans consume a fair bit more power due to being rgb but that is separated so shouldn't be an issue. They are worse than the stock fans tho.

[SupaKomputa]

Maximum current of a fan header is 1 Amps accoding to your motherboad specs.

A regular fan would use like 0.2-0.5 amps at 12v.

So using one header you can technically daisy chain 5 fans.

But i would suggest you get an active powered hub to lessen the load from that header.

[gal-m]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

They are worse than the stock fans tho

@jaslionI know.. The Arctic P12 are an AMAZING value fan.

HOWEVER... no RGB  

[gal-m]

1 hour ago, SupaKomputa said:

Maximum current of a fan header is 1 Amps accoding to your motherboad specs.

A regular fan would use like 0.2-0.5 amps at 12v.

So using one header you can technically daisy chain 5 fans.

But i would suggest you get an active powered hub to lessen the load from that header.

Thank you so much for the information @SupaKomputa I was just recently reading an article in regards to the amount of amps certain headers can handle and got a bit confused.

 

Anyway, I'll be running 3 Corsair LL120 (+ the pump), replacing the 3 stock Arctic P12 fans, through one cable (LF II 360 AIO).

I have also purchased a Corsair Commander Pro, which will be powering the rest of the 6 Corsair LL120 fans.

 

RGB is going to be handled by the lighting node, which (I believe) is included with every 3 pack of LL120.