I need some help with my case and fan setup.

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I disagree with some of the answers above.

Start from here: a true 4-pin fan header operating in PWM Mode can NOT control the speed of any 3-pin fan. Likewise, any true 4-pin fan HUB that operates that way cannot do this control either.

Your case comes with three 3-pin fans. You have listed on pcpartpicker four additional Corsair fans, all of them 3-pin style. Your post says you plan to actually use six fans for case ventilation, so there's an extra we'll ignore. The main point is this: you can NOT control ANY of those fans from a 4-pin PWM Hub such as the Silverstone unit you plan.

However, there is a good way to do what you want. Your mobo has three SYS_FAN headers (see manual, p. 46) and even though they have four pins, they are...

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I am partial to Cougar fans, because they're extremely quiet and they move a huge amount of air. All of my Cougars are plugged into my MOBO so they run at 100% all the time, and they're still whisper quiet in my Thor V2 case.

My configuration is:
1 bottom intake (140mm)
1 side intake (200mm)
2 top exhausts (140mm, on my Corsair H100i water cooler)
1 rear exhaust (140mm)
1 front intake (200mm)

I've always had great idle and load temps on both my CPU (AMD FX-8350, 25 idle, 60 load) and GPU (R9 290x 32 idle, 65 load) with this set up and Cougar fans.
 
Your case comes with 3 140mm fans.
That is perfectly adequate.
Put two as intakes in front behind a washable filter.
If that is the sole source for intake air, your parts will stay clean.
The third should be mounted as exhaust at the rear, mainly for directing the airflow out the back.

It is easy to change fans around, at least try the stock fans.
Addimg more than you need adds both noise and expense.
 

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I'm a tad confused on what fans to get if I plan on using a Silverstone CPF04 fan 2 top 1 back 2 front 1 bottom.
Being some from what I understand are 3 Pin and others are 4 pin and the silverstone is a 4 pin hub
 

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Fans generally all come with 4 pin females to plug in to either 4 pin or 3 pin males. The 4th pin is always for fan control, but a fan with a 4 pin female connector can also connect to a 3 pin male, it just won't have any fan control support.

So you can get any modern fan that you like, as far as I'm aware they all have 4 pin female connectors now.
 

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so this setup would work well with a silverstone fan control? https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Phillepaye/saved/ I couldnt find anything about them having 3 or 4 pins
 

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I disagree with some of the answers above.

Start from here: a true 4-pin fan header operating in PWM Mode can NOT control the speed of any 3-pin fan. Likewise, any true 4-pin fan HUB that operates that way cannot do this control either.

Your case comes with three 3-pin fans. You have listed on pcpartpicker four additional Corsair fans, all of them 3-pin style. Your post says you plan to actually use six fans for case ventilation, so there's an extra we'll ignore. The main point is this: you can NOT control ANY of those fans from a 4-pin PWM Hub such as the Silverstone unit you plan.

However, there is a good way to do what you want. Your mobo has three SYS_FAN headers (see manual, p. 46) and even though they have four pins, they are NOT 4-pin headers using PWM Mode, so they can't be used with that Silverstone Hub anyway. In fact those three headers operate only like 3-pin headers in Voltage Control Mode (with a useless 4th pin) and that is exactly what you need to control all your 3-pin fans! The only thing missing is how to connect six such fans to three headers. You can't do this with a Hub - there is no such thing as a 3-pin hub system. But you CAN do this with 3-pin Y-splitters like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812423160&cm_re=3-pin_fan_Y-splitter-_-12-423-160-_-Product

There is also a version with 12" long output cables.

Buy three of these and use one on each of your three SYS_FANn headers to convert them to accepting two fans each. That way you connect six 3-pin fans to three mobo headers that ARE designed to control 3-pin fans. Voila!

IF you think you need more than six case fans (I doubt it!), you can buy a splitter with three output arms (although it is actually made for 4-pin fans) like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812423163&cm_re=3-pin_fan_splitter-_-12-423-163-_-Product

You can always plug 3-pin fans into 4-pin male fan connectors, so that would work to connect three 3-pin fans to one 3-pin (or 4-pin) fan header on a mobo.

Mobo fan headers can power and control two or thee normal case vent fans such as you plan to use without straining them.

For your CPU cooler its website and manual do not make it clear how both its fans are to be plugged in. But they ARE 4-pin PWM type fans, and the mobo's CPU_FAN header is a true 4-pin design using PWM Mode, so you should have no problem. The cooler's fans may be wired so it only needs one connector to the CPU_FAN header, or it may have two separate connectors that need a 4-pin Y-splitter. If that is the case, I expect one is included with the cooler. Worst case, you need a splitter and one is not included, so you have to buy one, but I don't expect that.
 
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Huge thanks for the big response, what would you recommend me to buy for just a 6 fan setup, this is a tad confusing to me with all of the cables and pins. I'd like to be able to change fan speeds if possible but I would be okay if it isn't
 

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For this answer I will not count the fans on your CPU cooler system - they are both being handled by the CPU_FAN header. For using six case ventilation fans with the three SYS_FAN headers of your mobo, you need to buy six fans of the 3-pin type (that may include the one already in the case front, so you really need to buy only five) plus three of the two-output 3-pin Y-splitters from my first link above. For each SYS_FAN header, plug one splitter into the header, and then plug two fans into the splitter. Although the mobo headers have 4 pins, they are designed so that either a 3-pin or a 4-pin fan connector can plug into them - you just ensure that the slot on the side of the connector lines up with the tongue sticking up beside the header pins.

The default setting in BIOS for all these SYS_FAN headers is to do automatic control of the fan speeds for you, so you should not need to make any changes there. If you connect things up this way, when your system is complete and you turn it on, all six of those fans should start up at full speed for a few seconds, and then all slow down because the system is still cold. As you work and the system generates heat, the fans all will speed up slowly and slow down again when you stop working.

If you want to make your own manual changes to fan speeds that can be dome by altering the configuration of the headers in BIOS Setup. Or, it may be possible for you to do that using a software utility included on the mobo's CD disk. I recommend you do NOT do that at first because you probably do not know what speeds and mobo temperatures are right, whereas the automatic control system does know that. Too many people decide to slow their fans down a lot to make them quiet, without realizing this means they are making their system overheat because the fans are no blowing enough air.
 

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Okay thanks for explaining this all to me it helped a TON, just to be sure though the links you sent me. Will I be able to adjust the fan speeds at all or will they be set on a default If I use a two or three way splitter? and will all the fans I currently have on my list and ones coming with the case work with the splitter?
 

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According to the Corsair website, the case comes with three AF140L fans, and your parts list says you plan to buy three AF140 Quiet Edition fans, too. All of those are three-pin design, so all can and should be controlled by mobo headers operating in Voltage Control Mode.

As I said, the mobo manual says the three SYS_FAN headers all operate only in Voltage Control Mode, so this matches your fan type. The mobo headers will be set by default to use automatic fan control, so you will not need to change that. When you connect those up as I advise (2 fans each header, via 3-pin fan Y-splitters) all the fans will be under automatic speed control by the mobo. This means that the mobo constantly will check the temperature sensor built into it and adjust all six fan speeds up or down, depending on the temperature inside your case. You do not have to make any adjustments for this to work.

If you choose to adjust fan speeds yourself, you have three types of choices, and two tools to do it. See your manual p. 78 for how to customize using the BIOS Setup screens. There you can set each SYS_FAN header separately to use the default automatic settings, or to customize those settings for other speeds at certain temperatures, or to force the fan to full speed all the time.

See your manual, p. 80-81, for how to use the Command Centre, your other tool option. This is software included on the disk with the mobo that you can install and run under Windows. It lets you customize lots of things, and one of those is details of how each SYS_FAN header controls its fans. It has the same options as above (full speed, customized curve, or restore default curve), plus an option to set a fixed speed of your choosing. By the way, these same tools also can be used to make similar fan adjustments for your CPU_FAN header. So, you have lots of ways to customize how your fans operate.

Two small details you should understand when you use a splitter to connect two fans to one header.
1. Both fans on one header will receive the same voltage. If they are identical fans they will operate at almost the same speed, but a pair of different fans may operate a slightly different speeds.
2. Any fan header can only accept and display for you the speed signal of ONE fan. So when you use a splitter to connect two to a header, the splitter simply sends only ONE fan's speed signal to the header, and that will be shown as the speed of the fan on that header. The speed of the other fan on the splitter simply is ignored - you'll never see it. This is the proper way, and is NOT a problem of any kind.

The default settings for all your fan headers are good choices worked out by professionals. I advise you use them until you learn more about fans and component cooling requirements and operating temperature limits.