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Should I get a fan controller for 6 fans or fan splitters?

Fresh Monkey
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Planning to gt 6 fans for my pc, friends suggested me to get fan controller but some also suggested me to just get fan splitters. What should I get?

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Depends how many headers your motherboard has, really. If you've got enough to run two fans per header (or three, assuming they're not high amp fans), then I'd probably just go the splitter route.

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Personally I would go with splitters. But depends on what mobo, and what controller.

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On 4/1/2021 at 4:56 AM, LogicalDrm said:

Personally I would go with splitters. But depends on what mobo, and what controller.

Asus ROG strix x570-i i think it has 2 fan headers

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17 minutes ago, Fresh Monkey said:

Asus ROG strix x570-i i think it has 2 fan headers

It has 3 headers. From which we got to two things. Question, why would you need 6 (case) fans on mITX build? And conclusion, you can have those 6 (case) fans and have CPU cooler on its own header in addition.

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