Looking for fan hub

[Pulsefire]

Heya. I'm a complete newb when it comes to PC building and I'm just about to build my first one. However, I came upon an issue. 

 

I have a total of 10 case fans + CPU fan (so 11 total), but nowhere to actually plug them. 

 

My motherboard doesn't have space and I read up it's better to connect to PSU through a fan hub.

 

Problem is, I don't own a fan hub yet, and every fan hub I seem to find online, is not sufficient enough to support a whole 11 fans. 

 

Something that also worries me is, whether the fan hub can actually power all my 11 fans if I manage to find one with enough slots. Also, I imagine it will be a wiring nightmare when I have case fans set on all 4 cardinal directions. 

 

Top fans, bottom fans, side fans on both sides, and the CPU fan will be somewhere in the middle of the mess. 

 

Help ‍

[HanZie82]

I would exclude the CPU fan anyway from the fanhub and connect that directly the the motherboard CPU_FAN header, since then it will be speed controlled depending on temprature.
Then all the others can be on the fanhub.

[Pulsefire]

7 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

I would exclude the CPU fan anyway from the fanhub and connect that directly the the motherboard CPU_FAN header, since then it will be speed controlled depending on temprature.
Then all the others can be on the fanhub.

Thanks for the tip. I assume if my fan hub has a "CPU fan" slot unused, I shouldn't connect a normal case fan on it?

[PDifolco]

3 minutes ago, Pulsefire said:

Thanks for the tip. I assume if my fan hub has a "CPU fan" slot unused, I shouldn't connect a normal case fan on it?

All boards have a CPU fan header slot and at least a couple ones in addition (SYS1 2 etc)0

You need to also get a pair of splitters (unless you have daisy chainable fans) so you put 2-3 fans on 1 "final" header (group the ones on the same side that should run same speed), then you plug the "final" headers on any 6 headers hub

 

 

[Lurick]

Get two 6 or 8 port fan hubs which are sata powered and then just use a 2 port 4 pin splitter to the hub from a single fan header

Or skip the splitter and plug the fan hubs into two sys ports on the board and set them to be the same fan curve in bios.

[Pulsefire]

3 hours ago, Lurick said:

Get two 6 or 8 port fan hubs which are sata powered and then just use a 2 port 4 pin splitter to the hub from a single fan header

Or skip the splitter and plug the fan hubs into two sys ports on the board and set them to be the same fan curve in bios.

Putting all fans on the motherboard is a bad idea from my understanding since it's going to overload the motherboard. 

[Lurick]

2 hours ago, Pulsefire said:

Putting all fans on the motherboard is a bad idea from my understanding since it's going to overload the motherboard. 

They are SATA powered

 

Edit:

The bigger 6+ port hubs are all powered by SATA and only the PWM signal comes over the motherboard header to the fans allow you to control them all at once off a single hub.