Akasa FLEXZ FP5 | 1 to 5 Ways | 4-pin PWM Fan Splitter Cable | Supports 5 PWM Fans From a Single Motherboard Header | With 4-pin Molex PSU Connector | 45cm | Black Braided Cable | AK-CBFA03-45

This a simple, cheap but clever solution to allow control of multiple PWM fans from a Motherboard that has limited PWM options. There are a lot of 1 star reviews, reading most of these the users have not realised how this device works and/or how to set up, so it feels worth elaborating.1. The Motherboard must have a 4 pin pwm header (Akasa suggest using the CPU header)2. The Bios settings must be set to enable PWM control3. The most important fan (CPU) is the one to plug into the AKASA's 4 pin connector. This is the fan that will provide the PWM signal to/from the Motherboard and will control the speed of all the other connected fans. If you've used the CPU header then the fan speed will be determined by the CPU tempif you don't follow the above then your fans will run at full speed. 3 pin (non pwm fans) will also run at 100%Couple of things to mention with regard to some of the 1 star comments.. One fan only is connected to a 4 pin connecter on the Akasa cable, the rest are plugged into 3 pin connectors. Some commentors have suggested that this means that the cable can not therefore be PWM controlled but it is... The PWM signal comes from one fan only and the power is then modulated to all the other connected fans.I like this cable, much better than a fan splitter as it allows for the power to come directly from the power supply rather than potentially overloading the Motherboard header

I bought this product to avoid having many fan cables in the front of my build. I did manage to find an alternative and so I did not have to use it in the end but I still got to try it, and it is a great product. Sturdy build, nice strong cables, does not feel cheap. Might be a bit tricky to get ideal cable management when you use it but that depends how neat you want it to be. If you are just looking for a way to plug many fans and you don't have many fan headers left, or are worried of overloading a header, this is a great buy.I do not remember whether I could see RPM using this product, so I won't comment on that. However, one thing to remember once you have everything plugged is that you need to turn on PWM control through your BIOS or a third party tool (such as speedfan) in order for your fans to actually benefit from PWM control, and different tools have different settings and so on, a quick Google search can go a long way for this.Overall great build quality, worked as you would expect, 5 stars!

On my motherboard PWM works only on the CPU header (on the others fans run 100% speed). -1 star for no info about this possible issue on the product page or package.But item itself is well made - I will buy it again.

Just to be completely clear: this will only alter the speed of PWM fans. For clarity: if you use 3-pin fans with this splitter instead of 4-pin fans, they will simply run at full speed. If you want the speeds to be controlled by your motherboard, you will need 4-pin PWM fans.I'm not entirely sure how I can be clear with this, because there are a number of reviews that have clearly missed the basic functionality of this product.That being said, the splitter is well made with braided cables and perfectly sufficient for a motherboard where fan headers are at a premium.Installation is simple. You plug the male-socket 4-pin connector into the case-fan header on your motherboard, you plug the female-socket 4-pin molex connector into your PSU and you attach your case fans to the additional headers.

I looked at a good few of the fan hubs before I found this at a far better price than the Fanhubs. Its also much better than the hubs as you can hide it away with the rest of your cables. I have 4 PWM fans coneect up to 1 motherboard header and everything is running fine with no worry of over loading the header.I do have control over the fan speed but remember all the fans conected will all run at the same speed as there connected to 1 header.Overall happy with my purchase.

This a good cable for multi chassis fan setups, or if you're simply limited on fan pin headers on your motherboard, it uses a power supply 4 pin molex, and a 4 pin connector for pwm MB connector to run all fans, this is great. I personally set it up on a CPU opt connection so when my CPU heats up my fans speed up. The cables have nice netted sleeves, so looks very tidy in the case, and has good potential for cable management.

this product is of a nice quality, was delivered quickly and seems very durable. but its utterly useless at giving you the option to pwm control 3 pin fans because it has 2 pins, a space and then a final pin. i presume this is positive and negative power a space then the pwm control. as i am a complete novice i fear that i may sound a bit stupid but for me i couldn't get this to work at any speeds other than full whack

After reading some of the negative reviews here I was a little apprehensive about this PWM splitter cable. Still the price was low enough to justify a gamble, and I'm glad I did.Set up is easy enough, one of the plugs fits into the mobo pwm header, one into a psu molex and the remaining 5 into your pwm fans. Upon booting up the PC, all the fans roared to life at max rpm and I feared that those reviews had been correct. Turned out the pwm fan control was disabled in the bios. Switching this on and rebooting resulted in all the fans purring along quietly, only revving up as appropriate when the cpu is under load. Success!For some reason this 5-way splitter is about half the price of the 3-way splitter. So no reason not to get it and have some spares just in case I feel the for more case fans.