Hi everyone,
I've created my account specifically for an issue I have with fan controls on the P8P67. It's not a concrete issue, since I don't own the board yet, but it's a hypothetical one that I just can't seem to get a solution on. So after the guys at silentpcreview.com helped me along, I turn to you for redemption.
Here's the case. I'm looking at building a pc with the Antec Solo II case. This case comes with a nice, silent 120 mm fan. This fan has a 3-pin header. I've also picked two other chassis fans for this build, two 3-pin Noctua's. Now, the P8P67 Pro (Rev. 3.1), I've read, supports fan speed control through DC voltage control on a 3-pin and a 4-pin chassis fan header. (Something that top boards as the Extreme and Gene-Z can't do oddly enough.) Because of the restricted number of fan headers on the motherboard, I'm thinking of connecting the two Noctua's to the 3-pin motherboard header by using a splitter and connecting the Antec fan to the 4-pin motherboard header. (Switching to two 4-pin fans would also be an option, but Alternate, the store that will build the pc for me, only has a splitter for 3-pin headers. Throwing out the Antec fan also seems like a waste to me.) The question that can't seem to be answered until now, is whether or not the speed of that 3-pin fan on the 4-pin motherboard header, connected with an adapter, can still be controlled (by the motherboard, using FanXpert).
And no, I prefer using software, not an external fan controller.
Who can help? Thanks!
