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Hey guys, I have a pretty decent machine now, and it has 6 fans loaded into it. However, two of these fans are unnecessary when I'm not playing games. I was wondering if there's a way to have off unless the CPU or GPU reach a certain temperature?

 

I have a Rampage IV Black Edition motherboard, which said fans are plugged into.

 

Hope you can help, thanks!

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Depending on fan controller you could set them up in the bios to only kick in when system / cpu reach X degrees Celsius, fairly easy to set your own fan speed graphs.

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Hey guys, I have a pretty decent machine now, and it has 6 fans loaded into it. However, two of these fans are unnecessary when I'm not playing games. I was wondering if there's a way to have off unless the CPU or GPU reach a certain temperature?

 

I have a Rampage IV Black Edition motherboard, which said fans are plugged into.

 

Hope you can help, thanks!

 

Fan controller would be the easiest method or a fan curve that's aggressive enough.

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Fan controller would be the easiest method or a fan curve that's aggressive enough.

 

Depending on fan controller you could set them up in the bios to only kick in when system / cpu reach X degrees Celsius, fairly easy to set your own fan speed graphs.

 

I can't really afford a fan controller, do you know how I could go about configuring this in the BIOS?

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I can't really afford a fan controller, do you know how I could go about configuring this in the BIOS?

 

I think your motherboard comes with FanXpert. You just choose the fans you want to configure and set the fans to run as slow as possible up to maybe 60 degree CPU temps and to ramp up after that. Don't know how much leeway FanXpert gives you in doing this though. 

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Thanks very much! Wow, I've been out of computers for a year and a bit, and I'm already miles behind! :o

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I think your motherboard comes with FanXpert. You just choose the fans you want to configure and set the fans to run as slow as possible up to maybe 60 degree CPU temps and to ramp up after that. Don't know how much leeway FanXpert gives you in doing this though. 

It would appear my motherboard doesn't support this utility? Seems a bit crazy for such a high end board?

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You have the front panel thingy? Isn't that supposed to be used as fan controller also? As for silencing fans, you might need PWM fans for that. 3pins usually don't go off/under 5V.

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You have the front panel thingy? Isn't that supposed to be used as fan controller also? As for silencing fans, you might need PWM fans for that. 3pins usually don't go off/under 5V.

I haven't installed the OC Panel, I'd rather not have it there, but if its necessary I guess I will. :P 

 

And they are all 4-pin pwm fans.

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It would appear my motherboard doesn't support this utility? Seems a bit crazy for such a high end board?

 

Your motherboard comes with Fan Xpert 2, maybe you have to install it or download the latest version from the Asus website.

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I haven't installed the OC Panel, I'd rather not have it there, but if its necessary I guess I will. :P

 

And they are all 4-pin pwm fans.

 

Ok. So you haven't found the fan control in BIOS? It should be under PC Health. I'm not sure how well Asus has done BIOS based controlling. Its either with selection between presets, voltage control or curves. Last option would be best. With PWM fans, you can also use Speedfan which does same thing.

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Your motherboard comes with Fan Xpert 2, maybe you have to install it or download the latest version from the Asus website.

I have downloaded it, and when I tried to install it, the message "The model does not support this application." comes up.

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Your motherboard comes with Fan Xpert 2, maybe you have to install it or download the latest version from the Asus website.

Strike that, it doesn't support fanXpert 2, fanXpert 1 seems okay.

 

Nope, neither of them are working.

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Ok. So you haven't found the fan control in BIOS? It should be under PC Health. I'm not sure how well Asus has done BIOS based controlling. Its either with selection between presets, voltage control or curves. Last option would be best. With PWM fans, you can also use Speedfan which does same thing.

 

I found fan control in the BIOS, but I couldn't see any option for a fan curve, it only seems to allow very crude control, unless I'm missing something.

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I have a Rampage IV Black Edition motherboard, which said fans are plugged into.

 

Asus has some pretty good BIOSes when it comes to setting fan profiles :)

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