Looking for internal fan controller.

[harrkev]

Hi!

I have an Antec Performance II SX1040BII case, decked out with four Vantec Stealth 80mm fans (with an Athlon 64 3000+). The problem is that it is still too loud for my taste.

I have small children, which is why I got something with a locking door over the buttons/drives. But I still do not want to get a fan controller with front knobs. I may accidentally leave the door unlocked and find my computer fried because the children turned the fans off. An alarm would not be of much help because my wife uses the computer. I am not sure that she would know how to handle an alarm.

So, I would like to get a fan controller which is mounted completely internally. I would just adjust the speed of the fans down around 80% or the max or so, and leave them there forever.

Can anybody recommend any such controller?

 

[Zepper]

Zalman Fan Mate.
.bh.

 

[harrkev]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Zalman Fan Mate.
.bh.

Perhaps. The problem with those is that I would need four separate ones. That also sound like a lot of extra wires. I was hoping for one single unit that could control four fans. But I guess that I may have no other choice.

 

[Tiamat]

technically, you could mount 5.25" fan buses backwards - kinda like with the rheostats pointing towards your power supply. since most of them are screw in, you can just hook up all the cabling first, and then bolt it to the back holes (where the back end of DVD roms etc plug in).

 

[harrkev]

Tiamat, how well would a 5-1/4 device mount in a case with drive rails??? Especially backwards?

 

[Tiamat]

Ahh, you have drive rails. Well, that makes it a tougher problem 😀

Hmm... Even some of the 5.25" fanbus's have trouble mounting the correct way on drive rails.

You could always just remove the drive rails for that drive bay and double stick tape the fan bus to the sides of the 5.25" bay.

Or you could buy one of the many fanbuses that go down to 7V minimum. Your fans shoudl cool enought with only 7V in the worst case.