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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: comzee on September 03, 2010, 01:50:43 pm

Title: X58 fan controller
Post by: comzee 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?

Title: Re: X58 fan controller
Post by: Dark Mantis 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.

Title: Re: X58 fan controller
Post by: comzee 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.

Title: Re: X58 fan controller
Post by: Dark Mantis 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.

Title: Re: X58 fan controller
Post by: comzee 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?