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140mm led case fans, fan controller, input wanted

ZEBuckeye81
By ZEBuckeye81
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Hey guys, I'm shopping for fans for my first build. My case, the Phanteks Enthoo Pro M comes with one 140mm exhaust fan at the rear, and I'm looking to add two more fans to the front for positive pressure.

 

Being as this is my new build, I'm not entirely sure what to go with. I believe I want to go with led, white maybe blue, and am thinking I would prefer pwm,although have also been looking at a couple of combo fan controllers/card readers that go in the 5.25 external bay.

 

I've been looking at Corsair AF170, Phanteks, and a couple others. Help give input on good quiet fans and which direction to go with fan control! 

 

Also, is there anyway to turn on/off the LEDs on a fan aside from soldering in a switch?

 

Thanks!

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for the fan control what motherboard are you looking at. Most asus motherboards include great fan control software, some other brands do include it but asus's is a step above the rest. The corsair AF 140 would be a good choice but the leds are tied to the fan speed so the only way to turn the leds off is turn the fan off

 

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I meant to put that in my post, I have a gigabyte ga-z170x-ud5. I'm looking at the aerocool cool touch R and kingwin fpx003

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There are some LED fans which have separate power connector and switch for LEDs. But most have single power wire for both fan and LEDs. With those you'll have dimming effect when lowering fan speed.

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Apparently phanteks makes some with a switch for the leds,but they're not pwm. I guess I may either just not stress over pwm fans, or else do pwm and separate lighting, such as the hue+

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