X58 fan controller

[comzee]

I have a ga-x58a-ud3r motherboard. I want to control the speed of system fan one because it's super load.

I installed "Easy Tune6" and go under "HW monitor" tab and see that there might be settings there to control the fan speeds bit when I move the fan speed sliders it does nothing.

The fan I want to control is a three pin fan (So I know it can be throttled) and it plugged into sys_fan_1 port on the motherboard.

Is there any way I can throttle this?

[Dark Mantis]

The only fan port to allow speed control is the CPU fan output. This is a four pin connector and this is necessary to control rather than just monitor the fan speed.

[comzee]

Seems kinda dumb, anyway I hooked up my loud fan to the cpu fan port and just threw my cpu fan into the sys_fan port.

[Dark Mantis]

You could always buy a fan controller to enable you to take control of all your fans or even just buy a new quieter fan.

[comzee]

Well everything works good now. I have the corsair h50, so the pump is always going at the same rate, which allows me to plug it into the sys_fan port. I bought a 3000rpm Ultra Kaze fan to blow air through the radiator, the problem was I only needed it to operate at 3000rpm when the CPU is at max load.

I'm just wondering with such an advanced motherboard why Gigabyte couldn't build throttling control into the sys_fan ports?