Serveral issues

FluffyQuido · October 8, 2017

Hi,

Over the past few days I have noticed my case fans ramp up to 100% then go back down within a few seconds. It happens whenever I first boot up and load into Windows, shutting down the PC, when I load a more intensive website and when I play games. I think my PSU is dying due to a buzzing noise coming from it, faint but there, and my GPU fans have also been plagued with an issue, when they spin a sort of hissing sort appears which I assume to be some sort of bearing issue. I don't know what the cause of these issues could be due to the sudden nature. Everything was working fine at home, it's only after moving to university the issues started. I would like to assume there is a link to all these problems as I noticed them at the same time but I'm not 100% sure. I can say for sure that the GPU fans stay at a higher RPM for longer and it takes longer to cool down, the CPU temperature is higher, in idle, in a same temperature room, and the fan profiles seem different.

I've tried multiple different fan control software, none of them stop the fluctuating fan speed.

Specs are:

i7 4790k cooled with hyper 212 evo at stock speeds

Asus Z97M

16GB RAM 1600MHz

EVGA GTX 1070

Thanks

LogicalDrm · October 10, 2017

By any chance did case suffer some sort of impact while transporting? Since there are multiple issues, it could be cause by knocking stuff. If you want to root all of these out, I recommend going through everything inside and checking for damage.

Then to fans. Have you monitored actual fluctuation in speeds? You can do that quite easily with MSI Afterburners graphs. By default fans follow temps. So if temps spike, so do fans.

Which "all" control software have you tried? Since the only real options are BIOS, Asus Fan Xpert (AI Suite) and Speedfan. I haven't had Asus board since early 2000s, but Sppeedfan will work if you have set it up correctly. You need to manually tell software which controllers it can use. Also leave fan controls to auto from BIOS to let software take control in Windows.