How do I get 13 fans to be automatically speed controlled by Asus X99 Deluxe motherboard?

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I heard that with the Z97 sabertooth, it was possible to have the motherboard automatically adjust fan speeds to maintain a certain temperature. I heard that by extension that it would be possible to use a water temp sensor to maintain a set water temp.

I will be building a new PC with an Asus X99 Deluxe and 13 Noiseblocker NB-B12-PS fans. Is it possible to set up something like the above? and other than a motherboard, what components would I need to get so that I can have 13 fans all have their speed controlled by the motherboard?
 
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Here's the manual for the x99:
http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/HelpDesk_Manual/

It comes with a lot of onboard fan connectors built in. Mine also came with the fan expansion board, even though the manual says it's purchased separately. That won't get you to 13 on it's own, but maybe it will get you close enough to use y-splitters or something like that.

I haven't played with it much but the AI software does let you set up fan profiles and define all of the fans in your case individually (including where they are). You could probably set up some profiling for specific workloads that way.
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Frozen CPU has a good 8 fan splitter with 4 pin connectors that are powered off of a SATA power connector. You could easily change that to a 4 pin if you wanted. Just pick up two of those splitters and attach it to a CPU or CHA fan control port, whichever one you want to control which fans.
 
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Here's the manual for the x99:
http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/HelpDesk_Manual/

It comes with a lot of onboard fan connectors built in. Mine also came with the fan expansion board, even though the manual says it's purchased separately. That won't get you to 13 on it's own, but maybe it will get you close enough to use y-splitters or something like that.

I haven't played with it much but the AI software does let you set up fan profiles and define all of the fans in your case individually (including where they are). You could probably set up some profiling for specific workloads that way.
 
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I've got all 9 fan connectors used on my new X99 Deluxe build - six on the motherboard and three on the expansion card - and all are individually controlled. With just a few Y splitters you could power all 13 fans (assuming you don't mind if a few are running at the same speed.
 
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I ended up chaining fan splitters and running it all as if it was a chassis fan. It was much easier to just have 1 setting to control all my PWM fans.

My pump rmp sensor was connected to my CPU fan header. I figured that if the pump pooped itself the PC would detect a dead CPU fan and notify me/shut down

Looking back at this, I feel kinda silly that I asked the question in the first place. I learned so much over the course of building my PC :p
 
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