4 pin PWM to 3 pin voltage control converter

[reparto]

Found this and ordered one instantly!

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I didn't want to buy a T-balance or Aquaero unit (I also don't like the new gold Z87 ASUS motherboards so this lets me buy another board without having to miss out on onboard voltage control) to be able to control 3 pin fans so I looked around for a simple converter and found this product from Nanoxia (lesser known German company I believe).

Basically, you plug the 4 pin into the board and a fan (or splitter) into the other end and the PWM signals are converted to an appropriate voltage, there is also a rheostat so you can control the maximum voltage which extremely useful for fans which are too loud at max speed.

You can then use the motherboard's fan profile settings to control 3 pin fans, or, as I intend to do sometime soon, you can use your GPU's fan profile settings and use a GPUPWM->4 Pin adapter with this to be able to set fan speeds using GPU temperatures.

[bad_brain]

oh, that IS really nifty....but OF COURSE my local amazon branch doesn't have it..
will still order some Nanoxia stuff, they have some really useful wiring components....

nice find!

[reparto]

Its a shame your Amazon doesn't have it, mine is being shipped from Switzerland and the delivery costs twice the device...

[bad_brain]

ohh...waaait a second.....the seller on amazon.co.uk is a german one, really odd the part isn't available on amazon.de then. but I will try to contact the seller directly instead...

[reparto]

I got mine today, it has really nice braiding and looks like it will work. I need to download the fan control software for my mobo to test it first.

EDIT:
Got the fan control working, and it does indeed work really nicely. The only gripe about it is that the rheostat could do with a finer resolution, otherwise its a great piece of kit that really ought to be more available. Also, it has velcro so you can not screw it in to the case.

[bad_brain]

sweet, thanks for the quick review....

a bit hard to see on the pics, are the wires completely in those braided housings? might sound silly, but it's kinda important to me....even the SATA cables are in such housings in my main system, and it would be awesome if I could keep the clean look if those cables have the same style (with no wires showing up at all like it often is on the last few inches of poopy cables where the housing is not done from end to end).

[reparto]

There is a small (~1mm) bit of naked cable at the 3pin end but I was able to cover it up by pushing the heatshrink over it.

here are some pics (before pushing the heatshrink over it):
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There is a small housing which contains all the magic dust, its small enough so you can discretely fit in a corner somewhere, its shiny plastic but you could sand it to get rid of the shine if you really wanted to hide it.

The braiding on the cables is similar to this NZXT ATX cable: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =CB-000-NX" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bad_brain]

sweet, thanks for the pics!
that's how I like it, the few millimeters are ok, a lot of manufacturers leave the last 2-3 centimeters uncovered which pretty much ruins the whole look...