How are YOU controlling your case fans in 2019?

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3 hours ago, spat55 said:

the only issue is I want to be able to remove my GPU without having to remove the cooler first

As a DRP3 owner I am familiar with that problem.  It's nothing that a flashlight (to see what you're doing) and a flathead screwdriver can't deal with. 

You just have to be careful not to slip off the little tab, or put some electrical tape around the tip to somewhat protect the motherboard if you do. 

 

 

[Bitter]

I have a PWM hub, works well and lets me key all the fan speeds off one or two headers without pulling all that power from the board if I'm using stronger fans.

[Zberg]

4 hours ago, grangervoldemort said:

Please state fans rather than making people read through the small text in your sig. Thanks. At 100% I would expect any fans to be audible. Did you use the fans that came with the case? How many fans do you have?

Case fans that came with.

 

3x 140mm arctic something fans from fractal (2 intake in the front, 1 rear exhaust).  They aren't too loud at all.  Especially with the PC on the floor under the desk and fractals side/top panels having that extra sound insulation.

 

If I ever were to do anything it would be putting all 140mm noctua black chromax fans in;  2 in 2 out, all on full.  Nothing beats those noctua fans man

 

 

[grangervoldemort]

13 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

All my fans are connected straight to the motherboard headers and I just use the BIOS to set up the fan curve.

You have multiple PC builds in your signature, and the colour and font choices make it difficult to read. 

What fans and how many? 

What motherboard? 

[Marinatall_Ironside]

I'm using the Asus Fan Extension card to control as many as 6 fans at once. They're all set to change fan speeds based on the EXT_T sensor.

 

I only have one fan directly connected to the motherboard, and that's for the rear 140mm case fan.

[Senzelian]

I don't control them at all.
I just connect them to my motherboard and let it do its thing

[LogicalDrm]

22 hours ago, grangervoldemort said:

Modern builds only please. Also please explain better when you do reply. Why the random percent figures.

What do you mean by "modern"? Like only builds made for 3 last gens? Because I can answer about all fan controlling question while still running mobo from 2013.

 

Which is why I use Speedfan because back then Gigabytes fan controlling was much worse than what its now. Paid alternative for Speedfan is Argus Monitor. There's also project by one of our forum members which aims to create free alternative with modern motherboard support. But since that isn't "modern" probably, I don't bother explaining that setup further.

 

When I uprage, I probably go with MSI or Asus and use motherboards own controls. I don't need that much from those, just ability to set max speed for fans (80%).

[Tristerin]

BIOS

[ProfBrown]

All my cooling is Corsair, so I have my fans and AIO hooked up to a Commander pro accordingly. H115i Platinum (280 mm with ML 140 mm fans) and then 2 additional exhaust fans on the top of the case throwing the hot air up and away from me, also ML 140 MM fans. This was my first system build, and I originally had ThermalTake fans and AIO, but the software was beyond trash, and the AIO was used to begin with from a friend (also all 120 mm fans). By comparison, the build quality of the Corsair stuff is on par if not better, and the software is 100 times better than the ThermalTake stuff IMHO. 

 

Don't think I'll every use 120's again with how much quieter 140's are...

[spat55]

18 hours ago, Captain Chaos said:

As a DRP3 owner I am familiar with that problem.  It's nothing that a flashlight (to see what you're doing) and a flathead screwdriver can't deal with. 

You just have to be careful not to slip off the little tab, or put some electrical tape around the tip to somewhat protect the motherboard if you do. 

 

 

Dunno if I'd be comfortable doing that! It's a good tip however, might have a quick look too see if I can find a flat-headed screwdriver with a silicone head. 

[MadAnt250]

My oem case did not have any fans, so I connected one fan to the only fan header left and another fan to a molex conector. They are both running at full speed (intake@ 2400 rpm) and (exhaust@ 2100 rpm), I use headphones so I do not mind a little bit of fan noise.