Any motherboards that can handle lots of fans?

[Darkhour]

Are there any motherboards that can support a HAF X with all possible fans?

Front:230 x 30 mm red LED fan on/off x 1

Top:200 x 30mm fans x 2 (one optional)

Side:200 x 30mm fan x 1

Rear:140 x 25mm fan x 1

VGA Fan Duct:120 x 25 mm or 120 x 38 mm fan x 1(optional)

VGA Holder:80 x 15 mm fan x 1(optional)

Most I see have 3 system fans.

 

[ruthless_villain]

Why not just hook them up to molex connectors or a fan controller

 

[Darkhour]

Why not just hook them up to molex connectors or a fan controller

Are molex connectors a special attachment or something that is standard with all PSUs?

I have no eperience with fan controllers. How do they work exactly?

 

[Lollipop]

Zalman ZM-MFC1 PLUS - Simple fan controller, you plug the 3 pin into the controller

 

[KaraMurat]

Hook the fans to molex connectors using adapters, but this will make them run at maximum speed:

To control the rate at which they spin (rpm) you can use a fan controller: (this is a picture of the back, front looks like what Lollipop posted)

You plug in the fans and you can control them with dials or a touch pad (depending on how the fan controller is). However fan controllers typically take up to 4 fans, so you will have to plug some into the motherboard or psu using an adapter (shown above).

 

[sheroo]

Unless you're going for a monster system you probably won't need to run all the fans on the HAF X anyway. I tend to run my case fans at a constant speed with resistor cables. The only fan I normally plug into the motherboard is for the cpu.

 

[JesseLactin]

I got 5 CM SickleFlow 120mm and the stock 200mm in my HAF 922 hooked up on Molex cables. They're actually quiet. I wouldn't need a fan controller unless I had faster / louder fans (120s are 2000 RPM, the stock LED 200 is 700 RPM). Other than needing 3 pin y splitters, I could run 10 SickleFlows and be happy with the noise level (the SickleFlows are rated at 19dB, they're closer to 23 or so from what people have said, the stock 200 is rated at 17dB).

 

[Rastalovich]

One of the major things about the old ABit mobos was the onboard fan headers and controls for them in the bios.

I *think* I have two of the latter x38 and x48 with 6 controlled headers each. I could stand corrected, but my IP35 might have the same or more.

All definable by temps of various things by voltage and/or percentages.

I'd be suprised if the MSI mobos haven't adopted this mentality. I haven't had one to myself *yet* so I dunno.

The regular simple "Auto manage system fans [Y/N]" you get is nearly all mobos since ABit drives me nuts.

 

[Darkhour]

Unless you're going for a monster system you probably won't need to run all the fans on the HAF X anyway. I tend to run my case fans at a constant speed with resistor cables. The only fan I normally plug into the motherboard is for the cpu.

I'll have a i5-2500K with a Noctua NH-D14 I plan to Oc to 4.5. I have a Galaxy GTX 580 (which are said to run really cool) with the 3-fan Artic cooler. I figure everything should be cool with the default fans. However, if I got another 580 later on down the line they will be pretty close together on an ASRock Professonal Gen3. I wanted to be sure I could use the HAF X's VGA fans (it has that air flow channel for cooling graphics cards).

 

[sheroo]

You can buy something like this.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/NEW-Zalman-ZM-MC1-Multi-Connector-Cable/dp/B000FAKUE6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1314811326&sr=8-2

It allows you to connect 4 * 3 pin fans to a single molex from your psu. 2 of the cables run at 12v and the other 2 run at 5v. Most decent 120mm fans will start at 5v. If you don't care about the noise you can just run them all at 12v. There are lots of similar cables like this depending on your goal.

 

[SLIZER]

MOst mobo's should do at leaast 4, Gigabyte P67 Ud7 does 5-7, I have matx asus mobo that has 4 fan slots, refer to mobo manual on manufacture website for more info