Coming along Need another part to

[near compass]

is that a gigabyte vision 3070 or 3080?

[hollow sonnet]

3070 ti vision

[grand tangle]

Wait, you need another part to control the pump RGB?

Which part

[hollow sonnet]

Im short a usb header for the corsair controller

so I need a splitter

[grand tangle]

I'm a bit confused on what you connect the pump to

Both a fan and RGB header, correct?

[hollow sonnet]

no it comes with a controller that you plug the pump into, from there the controller needs sata + usb header

[grand tangle]

Right, but if your AIO isn't from corsair and you don't have the Commander controller?

What do you connect the pump to?

[hollow sonnet]

The AIO is from corsair, and I do have the commander controller lol

Currently I connect the pump to the controller and the controller to sata

I can't control the RGB without a usb header though

[grand tangle]

I plan on having 6 fans for my tower, my motherboard has 2 ARGB headers and 7 fan headers. I was planning to install 3 fans for each header, but I wasn't aware that the pump had to be connected to the RGB header as well

Should I purchase a splitter/hub or something

[hollow sonnet]

Depends on what connectors you have

I purchased all lian li fans + strimmers

so the 2 controllers for lian li both take a usb header

then corsairs controller for the pump takes one so I'm short.

I literally use 2 of the fan headers and both seem to be for speed control

[grand tangle]

I've heard of Lian Li's strimmers before, what are they used for? Or are they for pure aesthetic

They seem to be a complete RGB overload, so I'm assuming that's what it's for.

[hollow sonnet]

ya literally just eye vomit

[grand tangle]

So my motherboard should come with everything necessary, but the strimmers are used to replace them and for aesthetic, correct?

[hollow sonnet]

That's the strimmer

[grand tangle]

Yeah I know.

[hollow sonnet]

Your mobo will come with everything you need normally yes.

And your PSU will come with cables

The strimmers plug into existing psu cables to extend them and replace the aesthetics

[grand tangle]

So strimmers are just aesthetic, got it.

[hollow sonnet]

yup

[grand tangle]

Is that strimmer for the 24-pin?

[hollow sonnet]

ya

[grand tangle]

Cool, cool.

[hollow sonnet]

then I have the double 8-pin for the gpu

[grand tangle]

Wait USBs can be used as a fan/RGB header?

[hollow sonnet]

no, but the controllers for the fans/aio/strimmers use usb headers specifically

[grand tangle]

Okay

I'm really confused on this header thing now, time to ask #pc-assembly-help

[hollow sonnet]

lol what are you confused on

[grand tangle]

Okay so

[grand tangle]

The fans front mounted, the fans on the AIO radiator, and the pump on the AIO all take up headers

Is there anything else I'm missing?

I want to make sure I have enough

[hollow sonnet]

What fans/aio are you using

[grand tangle]

EK D-RGB 360mm, fans are being replaced by the Phanteks F120SK.

So all 6 of my fans will be the Phanteks'

[hollow sonnet]

did you get all singles or 2 3 packs?

[grand tangle]

The case that I purchased, the G360A, already comes with those 3 fans.

Wanted my AIO fans to be the same

So I purchased a 3-pack

[hollow sonnet]

the 3 pack will come with an adapter to daisy chain them

so 3 fans will take up 1 fan header

I'm not sure if the case you got came with the adapter or not

[grand tangle]

Oh

[hollow sonnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLvy2jz_Gc4

[grand tangle]

So daisy chaining allows multiple fans to take only one header?

[hollow sonnet]

ya this video shows the connectors

140mm fans but same concept

[grand tangle]

I have an excessive amount of fan headers, though. I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about my ARGB headers.

Since I only have two.

And the pump also needs to be connected to that header, no?

[hollow sonnet]

sec

Looks like 1 argb header per 3 fans

[grand tangle]

So

Only 3 fans per ARGB header?

[hollow sonnet]

ya

as far as I can see from specs

[grand tangle]

Holy shit those Lian Li strimmers are EXPENSIVE.

$70 USD for a single 24pin cable..

[hollow sonnet]

ya....

[grand tangle]

Yeah...I think I'll stick with my normal PSU cables.

They're black anyways, that's all that matters 😅

[hollow sonnet]

Ya how much you invest in aesthetics is totally up to you

I literally went with a worse GPU just because it looked better

and all I really play is osrs so not like it matters

[grand tangle]

Ah, that's fair

Aesthetics can be important

Just wanted to say, your build looks awesome

[hollow sonnet]

https://www.amazon.com/MICRO-CONNECTORS-3-Pin-Addressable-Splitter/dp/B07Z122WPT/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1HP2VBIHMBNVM&keywords=argb+split&qid=1663556006&s=electronics&sprefix=argb+split%2Celectronics%2C119&sr=1-3

Id buy this just in case xD

that gives you 5 total which should be plenty.

[grand tangle]

Thanks

[grand tangle]

So there are two types of headers for the fans and pump, correct?

One to determine the speed of the fans and another for the pretty flashing lights

Fan and RGB headers

[hollow sonnet]

yes

argb are 3 pin 5v connectors, fans are 4 pins. They're labeled on mobo

[grand tangle]

Got it

How many fans would you say I should use per header?

[hollow sonnet]

as many as you can daisy chain which the adapter appears to handle 3

[grand tangle]

Alright

There appears to be different types of fan headers

CPU_FAN1, PUMP_FAN1, SYS_FAN1-5

[hollow sonnet]

ya so your aio will go into pump_fan

or cpu fan

[grand tangle]

Is there any difference between the two headers?

[hollow sonnet]

sometimes a mobo will require something plugged into cpu header

a pump will always run at 100% as well

[grand tangle]

Okay, thanks so much. You and another person helped me out a lot.

I figured it all out. I'm attaching the pump cable to PUMP_FAN1, all 3 radiator fans to CPU_FAN1 via included splitter, and the other 3 case fans at the front to SYS_FAN1-5.