I have a zalman 1 plus water cooling set up but want to keep a couple case fans inplace to give a hand inside the case and to blow on the watercooler outside to help with the passive cooling but there is no need to have them running on high. I've spent a long time trying to find one I like. I'd rather have dials because pushing a button to up or lower rpm seems tedious and I'm pretty sure I want an lcd to display different temps. What has come up as the best for me is the aerogateII but the problem is, it has a fan in it. Does anyone know if its loud. It could possible defeat the purpose of making my computer silent by...well...not making it silent. I'm open to suggestions for other fan controllers as well. Thanks

Quote: Originally Posted by howdy88925 I'm open to suggestions for other fan controllers as well. Thanks

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The noise on that 40mm fan is actually noticeable, if you go with the Aerogate II you should disconnect the 40mm fan.

The real problem with the Aerogate II is that it is impossible to deactivate the annoying beeps it makes when you power on your computer without disabling the alarm, and the only way to disable the beeps is to remove the actual speaker from the PCB. The Aerogate II is also unfriendly with driverails.

The Thermaltake Hardcano 13 has a dial and has temperature probes, but it eats batteries if unplugged from the PSU or wall socket and it has a price tag of ~$60.

yeah, that one looks good but I dont really want to drop 60 for one

I have the Aerogate II. Yes, the 40mm fan can be loud but you can certainly turn it down by manual adjustment. It does not remember the settings when you power off the PC, this is the only downside I see but I think its ok since you would want to setup the fans correctly upon startup and then use the machine until such a time when you need higher speeds on the fans when playing a hot game on overclocked settings. Since it cannot monitor more than 1 combo of temp plus fanspeed, there is lots of buttons to press. Thats the other hassle. Mine does not beep becuase the CPU non of the fans should be below 1000 rpm, if connected. I find running fans at 1200 rpm is silent enough for my purposes.
Not a single fan controller I see can display all four temps (cpu,gpu,disk, inner case) and their respect fan speed directly. Thats the display I really wanted without any further button pushes. Its more of a pain to use SpeedFam or MBM5 to do this on the software level. In fact, on software level, I would display graphical trends of volts, temps.

PS: Setting the 40mm fan at speed lower than 2000 rpm is almost inaudible.

Consider buying a Pabst 40mm fan... & fit it "decoupled"....

Those aren't exactly cheap but they'll last you quite a few years...

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