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That's actually not entirely accurate. Can you use splitters? Yes. Is there a 4.5A total limit on the Commander Pro? Yes. But there is also a 1A limit on each fan header. So you must be aware of the current draw of each fan, each header and the Commander Pro over all.

There's no reason that you would want single rail. http://www.overclock.net/forum/31-power-supplies/761202-single-rail-vs-multi-rail-explained.html [ame] [/ame]

The ML fans definitely have better performance. The LL fans definitely look better. For quiet ... hmmm ... probably pretty close. Both are very quiet but the ML fans do spin faster. That said, the LL fans would like be enough ... you might to talking about a difference of 2C (guesstimate) in cooler temperatures ... so from maybe 35 to maybe 37C.

Yes! That would be good. What I wondered was about the power. BUT ... the LED strip packaging doesn't tell us the current requirements. BUT ... based on the current requirements for the LEDs on the LL and HD fans, we can estimate about 0.04A per LED ... so 0.4A per strip. That's 1.6A for 4 strips, 3.2A for 8. If you do two strips of 6, you're looking at 4.8A, which is more current than is provided for over the SATA connection (4.5A) and leaves nothing for the Lighting Node Pro's processor. Five strips per gives you a total of 4.0 A even. So that's a possible winner. Now ... if the configuration was "smart" enough to do on the fly current requirement calculations based on the devices attached and allow you to leverage that current how you wanted to, then you could have a 10 strip connection on one port and an LED fan hub (which takes no current from the NoPro) on the other port. Or ... 6 and 4 or 8 and 2. However you arrange it for a total of 10 strips max for each NoPro.

Hmmm ... yeah, don't have CUE. :( I my foolish youth, I got Razer for my keyboard and mouse since Corsair didn't have a single application to control keyboard, mouse and cooler (which was all I had at the time). It'd be really awesome if Link and CUE were combined into one single RGB and control app to rule them all with an SDK/public API. :cool:

Definitely agree. Actually, what would be even cooler is if Corsair provided an API that community developers could plug in to and then do this kind of stuff. It would take a huge burden off of their development team and encourage community involvement. But that's just my $.02 worth.

As with the OP, please try rearranging them on the hub to see if it's just a single fan. Also, as I discovered last night, make sure that your wires have a bit of slack in them. If they are too tight, it can also cause issues.

Have you tried rearranging the fans on the fan hub? Also, I noticed that you have an EVGA cooler. What happens if you shut down the EVGA control software?

Yes, should definitely be a sticky.

If the pump gets the full 12V, it will operate properly. If it doesn't, it won't operate properly and very well may fail in a short period of time. As long as the fans are connected to the pump, the pump will control the fan speeds. It won't have anything to do with the setting on the fan header; that is only there to give the pump power, not to control the fan speed or anything else. You will use Link to set and control your fan speeds. But you are seeing 0 RPM and the "unknown USB device messages" because the pump doesn't have the correct amount of power. So set it to 100% in the BIOS. That is the only fix.

You can click on one of the "balls" and use the arrow keys.

Here's a dirty little secret: the AIO pump header, at least on the Asus boards, is just a normal, 1.0A fan header that's set to 12V/100% by default. That's it. And guess what? You can enable Q-Fan control for that header and use it just like any other fan header. So what's best, IMHO? Having a dedicated SATA connection for the pump. No silly 1.0A limitation, guaranteed 12V and available 5V and 3.3V rails if you need them.

One comment ... if you read the blog post, it says "rotate the cooler’s pre-installed bracket and remove it." While true, that's not the whole story. If you grab the bracket and just rotate it, you won't get anywhere. At all. Instead, if you are holding the bracket with the copper cold plate "up", then you need to push down slightly on the bracket. This releases the clips and allows you to then "rotate the cooler's pre-installed bracket and remove it".

Ah, yes, definitely. The default curves are geared more towards internal case temps (from the temp sensors) than the CPU temp.

This is odd ... we're starting to get a couple of these. So ... some questions ... what temps (Group) are the fan profiles based on? What kind of Fans are they? Have you manually set the to 4-pin or 3-pin (as appropriate)?

It's a sticky on the forum (http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=168801) ... but yeah. Shoulda been in the manual. Can't argue that. Glad it helped. :D:

Just wait ... the mythical, magical H150i Pro is coming. It's been seen. We have pictures ... any day now ...

For the additional fan, you can either go old-school and connect it to the motherboard or you can get a splitter and connect two fans to a single commander port. Now, you won't be able to control the fans individually so you'll want to connect two identical fans to the splitter.

Yes, all control is via USB.

You would need another RGB Fan Controller Hub (http://www.corsair.com/en-us/corsair-rgb-fan-led-hub). Since it looks like both of your Commander Pro RGB channels are also connected (to the RGB lights?), you'd also need another Lighting Node Pro or you could use the push-button controller that comes in the HD fan multi-packs. AFAIK, the Lighting Node Pro is not available separately. If you plan on controlling the fans from the Commander Pro, you'd also need some splitters. If I understand your current setup and what you want to do correctly, it would look something like the following (new items highlighted) ... with the new LNP possibly replaced by the push-button controller:

Assuming that you have one of the Corsair coolers ... Many of the Corsair coolers plug into a fan header on the motherboard (usually CPU Fan). This is for power only, not control. It does report RPM to the motherboard so it doesn't give you a warning about no CPU fan. It is also very important that you set the fan header that the cooler is plugged into to 100%. With what you described, you wouldn't need to have any splitters. (Zotty needs them because he has 10 fans - 2 of them are controlled from the cooler and 8 from the C-Pro.) The cooler fans can be plugged in to the fan header from the cooler. The other 6 fans go into the C-Pro. No splitters required. That said, splitters can also be a matter of convenience; if you want to manage 2 fans as a single unit with a single fan curve, then a splitter would help make that easier ... you'd manage them as though they were a single fan. I have some of mine set up like that for exactly that reason. You'll need one of the LNPs, not both. You can also plug the USB for the LNP and the cooler into the C-Pro, and then the C-Pro into the motherboard USB header. Now, when you say "2 RGB LED strips" ... is that 2 individual strips or 2 of the 4-strip expansion packs? One node on the LNP or C-Pro can control 4 strips (1 expansion pack). You would also need to use 2 RGB Fan Controller Hubs for your fans; they only support 6 at a time and you can't use splitters with them at all. How you split them up between the controllers is totally up to you. Just keep in mind that you'll be able to have effects between fans on a single LNP/C-Pro RGB LED node. So if you want to have Pong on six of the fans, they should all be on the same controller and the order of them will matter. This is one option. You do have some flexibility in how you arrange things since you'll have a mostly-unused LED Fan Hub. Hope this helps: (And Zotty did the original drawing; I copied this from his)

MarianoSilva ... can you confirm what version of Link you are using?

The Commander Pro doesn't use the motherboard fan headers or connect to them at all. It uses its own fan curves that you configure in Link. It also has 4 additional temperature sensors that can be used as the temperature source for those fan curves. What I don't know is if those fan curves will be used if the Link software isn't running or if it will just use the default fan curves.

The fan is plugged in to CPU_FAN?? Or the cooler? The H80i v2 has two fans that should be set in push/pull configuration.

The fans speed on the CPU header that the H80i v2 is plugged in to doesn't control the unit. It provides power. Setting it to 100%/Full Speed ensures that the unit gets the full 12v that it needs. See http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=168801.