I've replaced the rather loud ML Pros with 4 Noctua NF-A20. Amazing fans. Can't hear them at all on the rad.
Thanks to the Aquacomputer OCTO - The little brother of their more famous Aquaero - I now have access to 8 independent fan headers, 4 temperature headers, 1 flow sensor header, and 2 more ARGB headers. This also allows me to remove one fan splitter, and only run two cables to the radiator - SATA power for the pump and one RPM from the OCTO. It's possible to run the fans off the integrated fan header on the pump, but since I don't have it hooked up to anything else, there is no software control and that would require me to run two cables anyways.
It's quite shocking what a 40 EUR device is capable of. We have motherboards that are beyond 1000 EUR but their fan management software is a complete joke compared to Aquasuite. I can not recommend OCTO and QUADRO PCBs enough. They're amazing and will be an important foundation for every future build.
This should be the last PC upgrade until I make the switch to a DDR5 platform and probably completely rebuild everything.
No more fan cables! Magical!
Amazingly simple and clean. You almost can't make mistakes. I noticed that the Farbwerk refuses to overload LED strips while the OCTO just blows them up. Oh well - I wasn't lighting my GPU block anyways.
NF-A20s on the rad.