Greetings,
I am contacting you because I am facing a dilemma and as this is the first computer in which I have installed so many fans, I do not know if what I have done will hold up in the long term or not.
Let me explain, I bought the CORSAIR 5000D RGB AIRFLOW case which originally had 3 CORSAIR AF120 RGB ELITE fans (note that in this case, all the fans in my case are CORSAIR AF120 RGB ELITE), there is therefore a 6-slot hub for powering the fans in the box.
To this I added the AIO CORSAIR iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX XT which brings with it 3 fans and a CORSAIR iCUE COMMANDER CORE XT and I added 3 fans on the upper side of the case and a final one at the back.
At first I connected the 3 original fans of the case with the 3 fans of the AIO so that I could synchronize them, the air enters from the front and exits directly from the side, I thought that this would be the most effective for cooling my processor, then I added 3 fans on the top side and the last one on the back, so my entire case had a good ventilation as well as my processor. However I realized that the power supplies of the last 4 fans being directly connected to the motherboard, depended on Asus ArmoryCrate to manage their operating speed while the other 6 were managed by ICUE, therefore they were not all synchronized to perfection and had to juggle two programs to adjust my ventilation so that the airflow was identical everywhere in order to obtain harmony in the airflows was painful.
In order to be able to manage and synchronize all my fans, I freed up a power slot of the CORSAIR iCUE COMMANDER CORE XT in order to connect the case power hub and the fan which I had to remove to make a place on the CORSAIR iCUE COMMANDER CORE XT was connected to the hub.
However, I don't know if the CORSAIR iCUE COMMANDER CORE XT will be able to support 5 fans on a single slot in the long term. Do you think I might have problems or not? For the moment I tested the resistance of the electrical installation by pushing everything to the maximum for 4 hours without noticing any problem, the CORSAIR iCUE COMMANDER CORE XT does not heat at all and even if I do not have the possibility of seeing the data of the speeds of the fans connected to the hub, on ICUE I see that on port 6 of the commander core xt the speed of the or fans is identical to the fans of the other 5 slots and I can easily see and feel that everything is running at the same speed when I push everything to maximum (2100rpm).
Is it risky to leave the installation like this? Should I add a second CORSAIR iCUE COMMANDER CORE XT? Or can I leave the installation as is without fear?
A small aside unrelated to the subject above, I installed 4x16GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RGB 6000Mhz C30 and I regularly have problems synchronizing the LEDs on the ram strips, sometimes a simple reboot of ICUE solves the problem but not always, forcing the reinstallation of the drivers sometimes works too, but more often, a complete shutdown of the system is necessary. And while I'm talking about RAM, will the problem of using AMD EXPO profiles when all 4 slots are occupied be resolved one day? Currently my 6000Mhz RAM is running at 3600Mhz because each attempt to activate an AMD EXPO profile does not even allow me to start the computer.
With the components mentioned above, I have a CORSAIR HX1000i(2023) ICUE 80 PLUS PLATINUM, an ASUS ROG STRIX x670e-f Gaming Wifi, a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, an ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition 20GB GDDR6, a Samsung 990 PRO 1TB m.2 nvme pcie 4.0, a Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 2TB m.2 nvme pcie 3.0, 3 Crucial P3 Plus 2TB including one external in an ASUS ROG STRIX ARION and 8x4TB Western Digital Red NAS 256MB cache in two external drives 4 USB 3.2 Gen2 slots.
Thank you for your time, I would be happy to receive advice.
Nicolas 'Ar3s' Esser.