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So this will sound incredibly stupid (and I'm incredibly tired, why I'm not waiting to ask this is beyond me) but does this mobo only have one pwm connector? http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-motherboard-151hee999kr
I only ask this because I plan on doing a dual water cooling look and I want to control the gpu and cpu fans separately. For the most part I'm pretty well rounded in what to do but I have absolutely no idea how to wrap my mind around pwm fans for some god awful reason. I know I need a fan hub, but if there is only one connector on the mobo, how would I even control the fan speeds.

See, my issue with x99 is that all the selection of motherboards just fucking suck. By that I mean they're all red black white blue etc. nothing is all black excluding this. http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-x99asliplus Should I just buy this and not worry about painting the "e" on the evga one and not worry about fan headers?

or should I buy this http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-x99deluxeu31 and paint the heat sinks (I only threw in asus because they have a good bios, but thats why I'm here asking for thoughts) 

its kind of funny, with the pc I'm making I keep jumping between what motherboard I'll use and its preventing me from actually making this...which begs the question if I should just wait for broadwell-e if that comes out spring next year (or just tough it out for a little longer and get skylake-e but I don't think thats coming until 2017)
I don't know guys, I'm incredibly torn right now

also I should mention that I'm only really considering the evga board because it is eatx and I'm buying this case: http://www.caselabs-store.com/magnum-th10a/ my thought process was to fill empty space

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So this will sound incredibly stupid (and I'm incredibly tired, why I'm not waiting to ask this is beyond me) but does this mobo only have one pwm connector? http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-motherboard-151hee999kr

I only ask this because I plan on doing a dual water cooling look and I want to control the gpu and cpu fans separately. For the most part I'm pretty well rounded in what to do but I have absolutely no idea how to wrap my mind around pwm fans for some god awful reason. I know I need a fan hub, but if there is only one connector on the mobo, how would I even control the fan speeds.

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Where did you hear that that had one PWM header? It has 7 fan headers, three 4-pin PWM and four 3-pin DC.

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Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

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I am not a professional. I am not an expert. I am just a smartass. Don't try and blame me if you break something when acting upon my advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...why are you still reading this?

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it was more of looking at the picture and only seeing one fan header with 4 pins

like I said, incredibly tired

It's ok :)

By the way, that MSI is very good as well, one of the best cheap X99 boards out there. Both are great boards though.

Project White Lightning (My ITX Gaming PC): Core i5-4690K | CRYORIG H5 Ultimate | ASUS Maximus VII Impact | HyperX Savage 2x8GB DDR3 | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | WD Black 1TB | Sapphire RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC | Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ITX | Corsair AX760 | LG 29UM67 | CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate | Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum | HyperX Cloud II | Logitech Z333

Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike: 10,528 | SteamVR VR Ready (avg. quality 7.1) | VRMark 7,004 (VR Ready)

 

Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

Core i5-4590 | Intel Stock Cooler | Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI | HyperX Savage 2x4GB DDR3 | Seagate 500GB | Intel Integrated HD Graphics | Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 | be quiet! Pure Power L8 350W

 

I am not a professional. I am not an expert. I am just a smartass. Don't try and blame me if you break something when acting upon my advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...why are you still reading this?

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Honestly, I'd wait to see if it comes out in the spring 3:

might be the best course of action at this point.

 

It's ok :)

By the way, that MSI is very good as well, one of the best cheap X99 boards out there. Both are great boards though.

well, I'm getting a 5960x, budget isn't the biggest concern haha I'm mainly considering it because its black....people need to make more black motherboards. Do you think I should save the money and just get msi so I don't even have to worry about painting it.

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might be the best course of action at this point.

 

well, I'm getting a 5960x, budget isn't the biggest concern haha I'm mainly considering it because its black....people need to make more black motherboards. Do you think I should save the money and just get msi so I don't even have to worry about painting it.

Sure, why not. The MSI is a great board, and they don't affect performance at all, just features (which the MSI already has tonnes of)

Or wait for a new architecture, whichever.

Project White Lightning (My ITX Gaming PC): Core i5-4690K | CRYORIG H5 Ultimate | ASUS Maximus VII Impact | HyperX Savage 2x8GB DDR3 | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | WD Black 1TB | Sapphire RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC | Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ITX | Corsair AX760 | LG 29UM67 | CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate | Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum | HyperX Cloud II | Logitech Z333

Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike: 10,528 | SteamVR VR Ready (avg. quality 7.1) | VRMark 7,004 (VR Ready)

 

Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

Core i5-4590 | Intel Stock Cooler | Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI | HyperX Savage 2x4GB DDR3 | Seagate 500GB | Intel Integrated HD Graphics | Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 | be quiet! Pure Power L8 350W

 

I am not a professional. I am not an expert. I am just a smartass. Don't try and blame me if you break something when acting upon my advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...why are you still reading this?

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The eVGA Classified x99 only has 2 true PWM fan headers, the others are DC.

 

Don't worry mate I had the same problem, nearly every board only has 2 true PWM fan headers.

The only boards that are all true PWM are the higher end Asus boards and the MSI GODLIKE.

 

I settled on a MSI x99a Gaming 7, which still only had 2 true PWM fan headers, but that was enough when using 2 PWM fan hubs.

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The eVGA Classified x99 only has 2 true PWM fan headers, the others are DC.

 

Don't worry mate I had the same problem, nearly every board only has 2 true PWM fan headers.

The only boards that are all true PWM are the higher end Asus boards and the MSI GODLIKE.

 

I settled on a MSI x99a Gaming 7, which still only had 2 true PWM fan headers, but that was enough when using 2 PWM fan hubs.

ok thank you

how would I know which header is a true pwm fan header?

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ok thank you

how would I know which header is a true pwm fan header?

 

They are generally the CPU headers.

What I did is any motherboard I was interested in I went to the manufactures page and downloaded the users manual, they outline which fan headers are PWM and which are DC.

 

Usually outlined like this (I added the red text so you can see the difference):

 

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They are generally the CPU headers.

What I did is any motherboard I was interested in I went to the manufactures page and downloaded the users manual, they outline which fan headers are PWM and which are DC.

 

Usually outlined like this (I added the red text so you can see the difference):

ok thank you (not sure why I never thought about downloading the manual)

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