Suggestions for a good manual ARGB fan controller?

[gravitywave]

So I've got a 160mm Silverstone Sharkforce RGB fan that I was running off my MSI motherboard's ARGB header using the bloatware that is MSI Center and Mystic Lighting. I wanted the fan strictly set to a steady red, and most of the time it would stay red. But every now and then, it would turn blue...sometimes for just a few seconds, sometimes for an hour. Seemed random. So it efforts to remove the bloatware and work around this problem, I used an inline Cooler Master ARGB fan controller...just a simple push button controller that came with some other Cooler Master fan I bought a while back. It works alright, but for w/e reason, CM decided it didn't need any steady lighting modes. Everything is some pattern. Best I can get is a breathing red. Meh.

 

So I'm looking for a manual ARGB fan controller that can simply do a steady red, and that takes standard ARGB fan plugs (not the proprietary Corsair stuff). That's all. It only needs to be able to run one fan, so the simpler the better. Thanks.

[alyen]

I'm finding MSI Center/Mystic Light to be bloatware as well, and recently installed it to adjust the colors then uninstall it. I just test OpenRGB and seems to work to work for my motherboard (MSI B550 Gaming Edge Wifi) and sort of worked for my Redragon keyboard. The software doesn't have a nice interface, but should be alright as long as you are not adjusting a keyboard per key which is more complex. Motherboard RGB and JRGB2 seemed to work, but I don't have a ARGB connected to test it.

[gravitywave]

Someone did suggest OpenRGB to me a while back, and I may still give it a try eventually. But using a small hardware controller just seems much easier. Just click the button a few times until steady red, and I can leave it alone. Well, theoretically, except they left off the steady mode on this cheap one I have for some reason.

 

I'd buy a plain red led fan if they made them in these 160mm/180mm formats.

[thrasher_565]

there isent really a good manual one. i no of one that has like 130 settings but cheap controller. the ones that use a phone app i guess would be better or there the house one wled but i think you code with that one...

 

there lamptrons expensive one...

 

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07QZ4ZLGW/?coliid=I1A7YTNJY21T0X&colid=1FAOHYDQQPCKN&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

 

 

Edited February 7, 2023 by thrasher_565

[gravitywave]

Guess I'll just stick to MSI Center and Mystic Light. OpenRGB was useless...couldn't even find one fan.

[NorKris]

1 hour ago, gravitywave said:

Guess I'll just stick to MSI Center and Mystic Light. OpenRGB was useless...couldn't even find one fan.

so ur not a fan? 

[thrasher_565]

6 hours ago, gravitywave said:

Guess I'll just stick to MSI Center and Mystic Light. OpenRGB was useless...couldn't even find one fan.

ya its use the mb software, use 3 party software, use an manual controller and hope it has presets you like..., code your own , use a controller that uses a phone app.

selling software is profitable as they can collect your data to sell so no insensitive to make a good manual controller. that's just the age were in. no one likes it but there not many other options...

 

probably why most people just pick one or 2 colors to keep it simple then having 4 zones 152leds per fan...

Edited February 8, 2023 by thrasher_565

[gravitywave]

Found this cheap one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HGJRNTQ/

 

Does solid red fine, so problem solved. It's a shame the software side of RGB needs to be such a pain.

 

Also found this one, but haven't tried it yet.

[gravitywave]

As an aside, I wish straight red fans were more common. There are some out there, but I know it's a stretch to hope to find one in the 160/180mm sizes. Nice thing about red is it gives you some illumination, and it's also real easy to fall asleep with it in the room. Whereas the disco lights of RGB is another story.

[thrasher_565]

7 hours ago, gravitywave said:

As an aside, I wish straight red fans were more common. There are some out there, but I know it's a stretch to hope to find one in the 160/180mm sizes. Nice thing about red is it gives you some illumination, and it's also real easy to fall asleep with it in the room. Whereas the disco lights of RGB is another story.

i dont see the point in a single led fan. rgb is way better and easy to code for or build manual controllers for. thow the power gets more confusing thats why argb was a thing. way better power delivery but it now needs data witch need some software. 

 

i seen a few  argb160/180mm fans but cost alot...

 

my firands house bathroom had a mood light in it and would give me a wired feeling... so i disagree but to each there own.

 

there going to be so much argb in my system it will have its own psu and a button on the front of the case to turn it off is the plan. but now rising power cost i dont no if ill turn it on much...

 

most everything is moving to the "smart" control  so voice controlled or with a phone app. because they can collect data and sell it.

Edited February 18, 2023 by thrasher_565