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comzee

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X58 fan controller
« on: September 03, 2010, 01:50:43 pm »
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?

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Re: X58 fan controller
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2010, 05:20:21 pm »
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.
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Re: X58 fan controller
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 09:09:49 pm »
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.


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Re: X58 fan controller
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2010, 09:14:25 pm »
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.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

comzee

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Re: X58 fan controller
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2010, 09:29:53 pm »
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?