Fan Placement in TJ08-e?

[Sleepingforest]

I just got two Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition fans as a surprise (and late, I have some very distant relatives) stocking stuffer type present. Right now, all I have are the default fans that come with the 212 Evo and the TJ08-e: one Cooler Master 120mm fan and one Silverstone AP180 fan. I have room for 2 more fans: one on the CPU cooler (for push/pull instead of just pull) and one on the exhaust slot on the case.

With that in mind, how should I arrange the fans I have? I'm thinking of placing the Cooler Master fan as an exhaust and using the two Corsair fans for push/pull. Is there any way to connect both fans to the CPU fan header, or should I just use the system fan headers? The Sniper M3 has, I believe, 3 system fan headers and one CPU fan header. Should I get a splitter for the CPU fan header? If so, what would you recommend that I use?

Thanks for reading this. Every scrap of help is appreciated!

 

[dma0991]

The Corsair fans would go great with the Hyper212 Evo. You could connect those 2 fans to CPU_FAN header with a 4 pin PWM Y-splitter fan cable or the more common 3 pin Y-splitter fan cable. The rear fan should be connected singly to the SYS_FAN header.

 

[kleinkinstein]

Can you rip out that 180 and replace with two 120's?

 

[Sleepingforest]

Can you rip out that 180 and replace with two 120's?

It's possible, but the 180mm has some speed controls from Silverstone that I'd lose, and the 180mm is really quiet.

I can go and get any old 4 pin PWM splitter for the CPU cooler push/pull, right?

 

[coffeejunkee]

The Corsair fans are standard 3-pin so you don't really need a pwm splitter, a regular 3-pin y-splitter would do. For automatic control you will need to set the cpu fan to voltage control in the bios.

You could also do without a splitter and connect the second fan to a casefanheader and use Speedfan to control them.

 

[Sleepingforest]

How does Speedfan work? Would it just run in the background constantly?