4-pin issue Help

[Tweed]

Hello. I have the ASUS Maximus Hero VIII, and 7 PWM be quiet! silentwings fans. 2 of the are for the CPU cooler, the other 5 are for case airflow. But my case only has 4 4-pin slots, so not enough for my fans. What should I do? I know there are fan splitters, but for some reason, the 3rd is missing on one of them, and also I read up that using splitters is bad because it doesn't get enough power or something like that. Advice?

[W-L]

5 minutes ago, Tweed said:

Hello. I have the ASUS Maximus Hero VIII, and 7 PWM be quiet! silentwings fans. 2 of the are for the CPU cooler, the other 5 are for case airflow. But my case only has 4 4-pin slots, so not enough for my fans. What should I do? I know there are fan splitters, but for some reason, the 3rd is missing on one of them, and also I read up that using splitters is bad because it doesn't get enough power or something like that. Advice?

For PWM fans you can get power splitters if you need a lot of fans, but in general you can have 3-4 fans per header depending on the fan as long as it doesn't exceed the 1Amp capacity. 

http://www.performance-pcs.com/swiftech-8-way-pwm-splitter-box-sata.html

 

-Moved to Aircooling Section- 

[Mick Naughty]

Nothing wrong with splitters. You can get the swift tech or one like it. Power and control all the fans off a single header. 

[Colomon84]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VNW556I/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=N4AL8W6EGCW3&coliid=ICDPS6AFY8A71&psc=1

 

I have this in a Mini ITX build right now. Works beautifully

[Tweed]

2 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Nothing wrong with splitters. You can get the swift tech or one like it. Power and control all the fans off a single header. 

does swift tech have the best y splitter or its the same as many like phanteks has one i saw.

[corrado33]

4 minutes ago, Tweed said:

does swift tech have the best y splitter or its the same as many like phanteks has one i saw.

Splitters are VIRTUALLY just wires. No electronics. 

 

Don't buy expensive ones. 

[Mick Naughty]

I have a fab hub from swift tech. And I have noctua splitters.  They are all the same really. 

[W-L]

1 hour ago, Tweed said:

does swift tech have the best y splitter or its the same as many like phanteks has one i saw.

Which phanteks unit are you looking at exactly, they have some me PWM to 3 pin hubs so as long as it's not those ones you will be good. 

[Tweed]

11 hours ago, W-L said:

Which phanteks unit are you looking at exactly, they have some me PWM to 3 pin hubs so as long as it's not those ones you will be good. 

I was looking at this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015AD1L0Y/ref=twister_B01DCN85GM?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

[WoodenMarker]

18 minutes ago, Tweed said:

I was looking at this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015AD1L0Y/ref=twister_B01DCN85GM?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

It'd be cleaner to just run all the fans together off of one header: https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-System-Cables-Black-CPF04/dp/B00VNW556I/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1482216510&sr=1-1&keywords=pwm+hub

[W-L]

42 minutes ago, Tweed said:

I was looking at this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015AD1L0Y/ref=twister_B01DCN85GM?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

That would work as WoodenMarker mentioned a hub would keep things a little neater. 

[Tweed]

30 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

It'd be cleaner to just run all the fans together off of one header: https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-System-Cables-Black-CPF04/dp/B00VNW556I/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1482216510&sr=1-1&keywords=pwm+hub

 

7 minutes ago, W-L said:

That would work as WoodenMarker mentioned a hub would keep things a little neater. 

Does that put stress on the motherboard or something. I don't know much but won't the fans not get sufficient power?

[W-L]

4 minutes ago, Tweed said:

Does that put stress on the motherboard or something. I don't know much but won't the fans not get sufficient power?

Well for the regular splitters your drawing power from the header so you wouldn't want to overload it most have a 1 amp capacity, the silverstone or swiftech ones are powered from the PSU and only take a PWM control signal from the motherboard.