Any fan hubs that allow you to control speed?

PCnooberson

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Im planning to run a water cooling loops with radiators in push and pull. This is going to take alot of fans, more than the motherboard has to give.

I could connect them to a fan hub such as

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/14668/ele-996/6-Pin_Power_Distribution_PCB_8xWay_Block_MMT-PCB-6-83.html?tl=g34c17

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811997110

But the fans will always be running at full blast, meaning that they will be loud, and just wasting power when on idle.

What i would like to do is connect all the fans from a radiator to a hub, and controll all those fans simultaneously.

For example, connect the 8 fans from a 480mm rad to a hub and control their speed alone, and do the same with every other radiator.

Is there any way that i connect a set of fans to a hub, and control the speed, whether it be by connecting that hub to a fan controller or maybe a dial on the hub or something? Or am i going to have to resort to getting like 4 fan controllers, essentially taking up all of my 5.25 bays (which i need for my dvd drive, card reader, and res.
 
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that is the most expensive unit on the market

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=36_48&products_id=34293

this is the one that I have

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/17529/bus-328/G-VANS_Shamash_-_30W_-_5_Channel_Aluminum_Rheobus_Fan_CCFL_Controller_-_Black_GV-CT-10.html?tl=g47c17s817

and this one I got for my dads unit because he has lighting

https://imageshack.com/i/nqsw2fj
https://imageshack.com/i/07ljmaj

mine can handle a total of 30 corsair fans, and my dads can handle 18 corsair fans

as for fan choice the noctua are the best on the market

toolmaker_03

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Ok so yes there are a lot of fans for water cooling and I have gone through this issue already myself.

https://imageshack.com/i/mwaway001j

I got two fan controllers to handle all of my fans, keep in mind that theses are cheep fan controllers and can only handle 7W per channel or one to two fans MAX, but it is a cheaper solution to the problem than getting a 30W per channel controller. with that said I have since upgraded to a 30W fan controller that I have now, because I got tired of turning all of the nobs.

https://imageshack.com/i/g9d3sqj

I use the corsair fans so I can put 6 fans per channel on this controller without having to worry about burring it up.
 

PCnooberson

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http://www.frozencpu.com/products/17839/bus-335/Aquacomputer_Aquaero_6_PRO_USB_Fan_Controller_Graphic_LCD_Liquid_System_Controller_53145.html?tl=c17s422b200#blank

How is this one? At max i need to be able to run 8 fans (480mm rad) off of one channel. This controller has 4 30-watt channels (which is perfect for my 4 radiators)

It is expensive, but maybe its worth it considering that this thing is the works. If 30 watt channels are enough for 8 fans, then thats great. It has temperature inputs, flow sensor inputs, led outputs (which of would be usefull)

But i am confused on where it says " Four fan outputs with up to 30 Watt of power per channel"
and then later says "Expandable to a maximum of 10 fan channels"

I dont know how the fans connect, what splitter to use, and if pwm fans are usable

And what is this feature?
Universal IR receiver (except LT)
Output for IR transmitter

Is this any good?

And side question, i dont know whether to get some SP 120 fans for the radiators or Noctua NF-F12 PWM fans
The noctua fans perform great and quietly, but look ugly.
Im not sure how well the SP fans perform, but i have read alot of bad reviews that definately scare me away, but they look amazing.

What would you choose
 

toolmaker_03

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that is the most expensive unit on the market

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=36_48&products_id=34293

this is the one that I have

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/17529/bus-328/G-VANS_Shamash_-_30W_-_5_Channel_Aluminum_Rheobus_Fan_CCFL_Controller_-_Black_GV-CT-10.html?tl=g47c17s817

and this one I got for my dads unit because he has lighting

https://imageshack.com/i/nqsw2fj
https://imageshack.com/i/07ljmaj

mine can handle a total of 30 corsair fans, and my dads can handle 18 corsair fans

as for fan choice the noctua are the best on the market
 
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