Ventilation
There’s one topic I haven’t even addressed yet: the fans for the external radi. Here you generally have two options: nine 140 mm fans or four 200 mm fans. I wanted it powerful but quiet, so I went with the questionably colored 200 Noctuas. I know their brown and beige tones are polarizing: some love this combo, others hate it. I think my point of view became clear two sentences earlier – and I didn’t buy the Chromax, i.e. black ones, because I don’t mind turning the fans towards the wall in the end – and there were only the brown ones as cheaper B-ware.
These Noctuas each come with four grub screws and four rubber pins. The SuperNova does have two different fan mounting plates, one side for nine 140s and the other side for four 200s – but there are M3 holes there that are clearly unsuitable for the grub screw, but even these rubber pins can’t be pulled through there.
So the situation is briefly summarized: the largest radiator model from Alphacool and the largest PC fan from Noctua – and neither company supplies matching M3 x 35 screws. Nine M3 x 30 packs were included with the SuperNova, but they are intended for 140 mm fans with a width of 25 mm. So dear manufacturers, there you sit at home on Sundays and are annoyed because of 16 missing screws. First the local screw store then let me complete my building project. Thank you!
In the run-up I also thought about the control of the external radiator fans. Now I currently have a Dark Hero with some PMW connections after all, but I wanted to connect four more fans and a pump with something other than an internal PWM.
The plan was to buy a 9-way splitty, connect it to my case PWM controller at the input, and connect the four large fans and the pump to the outputs. Well, that hasn’t quite worked out that way so far. I haven’t gone through all the combinations yet, but once I had the pump on the splitty, which only occupied two of the four wires of the PMW connector and, while the PMW controller on my BQ Silent Base 802 only occupied three pins on the connectors, so the pump was then only connected to one pin the entire way – and for power, one is none.
I am still torn, however, whether I want to have everything automated via the super (!) Program FanControl, or control the entire external part (Radi fan and pump) manually via the operating switch of the PWM controller from the housing. Current solution: FanControl controls the pump and I control the fans via housing switch.
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