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What Are Fan Controllers?

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If your mobo doesn't have enough fan headers, it'll control them for you (using either physical knobs or third party software). You can always just a fan splitter instead but you give up fan control via the bios.

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I'm about to build my first PC and my case has an optical drive bay. I was going to just put in a DVD drive, because I thought fan controllers were pricey. But I looked it up, and they actually aren't... so what are they? What do they do? I tried looking it up, but I still don't get it.

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1 minute ago, TyFilms said:

I'm about to build my first PC and my case has an optical drive bay. I was going to just put in a DVD drive, because I thought fan controllers were pricey. But I looked it up, and they actually aren't... so what are they? What do they do? I tried looking it up, but I still don't get it.

I think you can manually control the fans i think by a knob usually.

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1 minute ago, cdsboy2000 said:

If your mobo doesn't have enough fan headers, it'll control them for you (using either physical knobs or third party software). You can always just a fan splitter instead but you give up fan control via the bios.

Ah, thank you. I don't think I'll need that.

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