Thermaltake FP -10 Commander Port Hub for PWM Fans, 10 Ports, SATA Power Input, 2 Years Warranty - Black

Like me you’ve probably been reduced to looking at PWM fan hubs for all those case fans you have installed in your computer (even more necessary now that summer is upon us!). You’ve got a few new fans you bought, excited you open up your case to put them all in and BAM you motherboard only has 2, yup 2 system fan headers…I have no idea why motherboard manufacturers have decided that RGB headers on a motherboard are more important than fan headers but low and behold this is the current situation, yes I’m looking at you Gigabyte. In fairness it’s probably because I have one of the mid-range motherboards and not a “premium” one but still cooling is more important than RGB motherboard makers!Anyway…I went off on a bit of a tangent then so if you have the same problem I did with system fan headers then say hello to the Thermaltake FP -10 Commander Port Hub! It’s a 10 port PWM controlled fan hub (yes it’s in the title I know) that allows you to plug 10 system fans, yup you read that right 10 system fans into a single fan header on your motherboard!In the box you get:Thermaltake FP-10 PWM Fan HubPWM Signal CableSATA Power Cable2 x Velcro Sticky pads5 x beaded cable tiesInstalling the Thermaltake FP -10 Commander is quite straight forward. You stick it into your case using the supplied velcro pads, however the velcro on these pads isn’t the best and it does tend to move about if nudged so if you know you won’t be wanting to move it for quite some time it may be worth using double sticky sided adhesive squares or your other preferred method to prevent it going anywhere!Next is to plug the hub into an available SATA connector off your power supply, after all it’ll be nigh on impossible for your motherboard to power 10 fans off a single fan header so don’t forget this step!We then have to plug the PWM signal cable into the hub and then into a system fan header on the motherboard, this is to enable the motherboard to get an RPM reading off the fan hub so it knows there is fan-spin.Finally you plug your fans into the hub making sure that the fan you wish to take the RPM reading from is plugged into the shiny port on the hub otherwise if this is left empty your motherboard won’t get an RPM reading from it. This hub works best if you use fans that all have the same RPM rating as the hub can’t control individual fans it attempts to run all fans connected to it at the PWM/RPM of the fan connected to the shiny fan port.You’ll know if you’ve connected it all up right because a little blue light will illuminate on the hub to tell you that it’s receiving power and when you check your system monitoring software you’ll get an RPM reading on your fans!Pros✅ Fairly inexpensive compared to some PWM hub’s on the market – I paid £12.50 at the time of writing for this hub, bargain!)✅Easy to install!✅Does exactly what is claimed in the description and works well at doing it.✅Plug and play! When it’s all set up it just does its thing, fan speed adjustments are then made in your monitoring software.Cons❌Velcro strips included could be of better quality, but this is a very minor niggle!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Got this as my new motherboard doesn't have enough PWM fan ports, and whist I like the splitter leads you can get, and I have some, those were not suitable for my setup in this case. This works just as described and the fans are all being controlled by the one PWM port on the motherboard. You do of course have to set this up in the BIOS/UEFI settings to however you want it to run the fans, you can set it to adjust with a fan curve of the CPU heat/mobo heat, or just set a profile like silent. This is of course subkect to your particular motherboard type and settings, so if you're reading this to decide whether to buy one, look in your BIOS first to see which options you have available. If buying a new motherboard, you should pretty much have these settings available. I don't know how the guys that reviewed these previously and said they went full speed went wrong, maybe they didn't set anything in the BIOS properly, or didn't wire in the fans properly maybe? Believe me, these are very straight forward to use and as they support upto 10 fans should be suitable for many usage cases.

Works perfectly fine as it states just install as instructed would be 5 stars if you could change the speed on each fan plugged in but it’s generic speed

I had a exact requirement that this device fitted perfectly… in fact I now have 2 in the pc …On my ASUS motherboard it has two PWM cpu fan headers and two PWM case fan headers… however the case fans I decided to use have a 6.6 watts power draw on full RPM and unfortunately as I wanted to use 5 case fans the onboard headers only supply 12 watts each this device is perfect if all your fans are identical you connect the sensor wire to the motherboard header and you connect the fan you want to be mirrored to the shiny port on the device and the rest to the others then power to the sata power connection As long as the fans are identical they will spin at exactly the same rate as the one connected to the shiny port … this is important if you don’t contact any fan to the shiny port all the fans spin at max rpm … I tested this and I think some other people reviewing missed this important requirement out complaining the speed control aspect as not working and all fans run at full rpm or they may have had a faulty unit …Both units I have work perfectly Synchronisation of 4 fans on each 100%.Also my cpu has 4 fans in push pull configuration so I added a second one of these to control those fans as well and theyhave better speed synchronisation than they had with “Y” splitting the cables …Also the motherboard headers simply did not have enough amps to power the fans to there rated max RPM even when only one was connected falling a couple of hundred RPM short, but with this device as the fans are going to the max rated RPM due to the fact that as it’s connected to the sata power input … I did try the ASUS fan extension card that came with the motherboard however using the windows software was a completely horrible experience and I would much rather set up the fans to be controlled with a simple fan curve in the bios and be OS independentthis has made this possible a simple and ingenious device would recommend but only with identical fans and all fans PWM 4 pin type.I will post an update if I have any issues but a few days in and I have none so far Recommended 100%