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Can't find good fan speed controller

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  • Water Cooling
  • 6 fan controller
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January 14, 2014 6:00:01 PM

I need a 6 fan controller w/ media card pass through. Water cooling has push-pull fans, can I control them simultaneously? I would have 4 intakes and only 2 outtakes so I would like to set my fans accordingly for best noise/performance. I only have 3 5.25 inch bays on my case 2 of which are taken up. If the controller had an sd card reader than I would be fine with opening up that 3rd bay. otherwise single bay only. was looking at the NZXT sentry/2 it only has 5 fan support but maybe I could double up? I think it's 10 watts per fan, would that be enough for 2 fans connected
to one 'slot'?

Just looking for advice.

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January 14, 2014 6:03:07 PM

I have six case fans I'm running and I'm using the NZXT Sentry. The way I got around the issue you're having is that I used the mobo to control one fan and the NZXT to control the remaining five. Another option you might consider is if to use a Y splitter from one channel of the NZXT. That way you could run 2 fans from one channel and the other 4 could be run on the other channels.
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January 14, 2014 10:42:02 PM

A fan controller that will work with your setup is fairly easy to find, getting one that has a card reader in it is going to be harder to find.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
This controller has stronge enough channels that you could probably run 4 fans from each.

I would be looking into an external USB card reader.
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