Issues with my Rigs Cooling

d0nsen · February 3, 2015

Hi guys,

ran into some issues while trying to silence my machine.

My specs:

FX-6300 (4,3 Ghz, 32° idle, 68° Full load)

8G Hyperx Blu 1600

MSI N560GTX Ti Twin Frozr II (950/2100/2300/1,025)

ASUS M5A97 LE R 2.0

4x BeQuiet SilentWings 120mm

Arctic Freezer 13 Limited Edition

LC PSU 530W Gold

For the love of god, i cannot make these fans run silent. left and top 3 are attached to the CHA1-3 fan headers, CPU is attached to the CPU header. no matter what i do, asus suite or bios or speedfan, the chassis fans do not shut up and wont run below 1300 rpm. they simply ignore everything i do. only thing speedfan does is capping them at 60% making my cpu nearly pay the iron price while running a benchmark.

I attached a pic of the setup. left fan pushes air in, cpu blows to the top side and top 2 pull out. in front of the hdd cage pushes in, psu is pulling from below and venting out the back. Case is a Zalman Z3.

Will Barnard · February 3, 2015

What are the fans you're using? They need to have PWM in order for your to control the speed.

d0nsen · February 3, 2015

4x BeQuiet SilentWings 120mm

they have fan headers, so theres that. they also change their speeds, just not below 1300rpm

LogicalDrm · February 4, 2015

If they are PWM fans, you may need to change controlling from BIOS to PWM mode. Its usually voltage controlled by default for chassis fan headers. If they are 3pins, you can't get them lower than 50% via software. With hw controller getting lower than that may be possible.