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Hello, I recently bought 3 case fans for my rig, one coolermaster sickleflow 120mm and two bitfenix spectre all black 120mm fans, I am really dissapointed at how loud this thing is after adding these fans and for some reason I cannot use speed fan to slow them down when im not doing as heavy tasks or things of that nature so I decided to buy a NZXT Sentry 2 fan controller to have controll of my fans, My question is will these fans be compatible with this controller and will I be able to slow them down and what not? Thanks everybody -Lucas

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Are they 3-pin fans plugged into 4-pin connectors? Also, nice Boogie thumb :) Cool guy

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if they are 4 pin, did you try just setting your fan settings in bios to silent? tends to work nice.

 

otherwise, as far as i know the sentry only takes 3 pin fans without modification in the form of a knife. i dont know what your fans have tho.

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Are they 3-pin fans plugged into 4-pin connectors? Also, nice Boogie thumb :) Cool guy

 

if they are 4 pin, did you try just setting your fan settings in bios to silent? tends to work nice.

 

otherwise, as far as i know the sentry only takes 3 pin fans without modification in the form of a knife. i dont know what your fans have tho.

They are 3 pin connectors and they are plugged in to 3 pin sockets on the motherboard, ive heard some things about the sickleflows only being able to run off the motherboard at full speed so I was just wondering if I could use the controller, everything would work alot smoother :)

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yea, 3 pin fans only run at 100% without voltage control, but the sentry will do that voltage control for you so should work, tho look up and see if the fans are 100% compatible because some will start making another noise when down volted

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yea, 3 pin fans only run at 100% without voltage control, but the sentry will do that voltage control for you so should work, tho look up and see if the fans are 100% compatible because some will start making another noise when down volted

Yeah I heard something about the sickleflows again like that under 7v then whine or something, do you think it will be that bad?

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yea, 3 pin fans only run at 100% without voltage control, but the sentry will do that voltage control for you so should work, tho look up and see if the fans are 100% compatible because some will start making another noise when down volted

 

Are they 3-pin fans plugged into 4-pin connectors? Also, nice Boogie thumb :) Cool guy

would this be a better fan controller option ive heard that it doesent make the noise with this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811995075

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would this be a better fan controller option ive heard that it doesent make the noise with this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811995075

 

It shouldn't be matter of fan comtroller since they all work with same principle. Its more about how fan works when undervolted.

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