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The fans on my Corsair h115i pro are running full speed...

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I've never used the stock fans on my h115i pro, they're still unused in the box it came in...

...I swapped them the day it arrived with after market PWM fans and powered them via the motherboard, regulated by the CPU temp sensor.

Today I read that you can control the fans on the H115i pro based on coolant temperature (it has a coolant temp sensor), so I've plugged my fans into the sockets running from the h115i pro pump (the first time I've ever used those sockets)...but the replacement fans are just running at full speed all the time.

Is it because they're PWM fans...?...is it because they're not the stock fans...?...or could it be something else?

Is it possible to swap the stock fans for aftermarket PWM fans and still have Corsair iCue control their speed? 

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Just plug the fan directly into the motherboard and use the curve built into your BIOS, make sure to change it to PWM in your bios 

Best to not run iCue constantly, it can munch 6-12% cpu just idling

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2 minutes ago, Chronified said:

Just plug the fan directly into the motherboard and use the curve built into your BIOS, make sure to change it to PWM in your bios 

Best to not run iCue constantly, it can munch 6-12% cpu just idling

Wow, really...?

I guess I'm just going to go back to using the bios. 🙄 

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2 hours ago, GuruMeditationError said:

Wow, really...?

I guess I'm just going to go back to using the bios. 🙄 

Depends. I haven't noticed it. I have a shitload of icue devices and my idle CPU usage is under 1%

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1 hour ago, Mister Woof said:

Depends. I haven't noticed it. I have a shitload of icue devices and my idle CPU usage is under 1%

Any idea about what I can do about the fans? 

I'm tempted to break out the stock fans to troubleshoot but I want to put them on eBay. 🙄

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Okay, so...I think it must be faulty...?...unless it's configured not to run with aftermarket fans...?

I installed an older version of the software that let me access 'Devices' and 'Performance', found a very well hidden fun curve adjustment by clicking on a plus icon, but no matter what I do to the curve or what settings I choose nothing happens to the fan speed...

...I've tried it with the header running from the pump assembly plugged into CPU, CPU_Opt and unplugged and I've tried it with both PWM and DC fans but nothing works. The fans just run at a single high speed with no variation regardless of what I do.

Maybe it's programmed to recognise whether stock fans are fitted and won't work with after market fans, or...maybe it's just a faulty unit that I'm only just trying to use in it's full functionality....

I'm at a loss as to what to do...I'm just going to revert back to controlling the fan's from the motherboard based on CPU temps. :0/

Edit: Okay, so...it's working: I was just having trouble 'applying' the different modes to the fans, also, they were taking some time to alter their speed, plus I discovered I have a fan with a broken PWM wire in the front of my case which was the fan that was running at full RPM and not the fans on the cooler. 

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