Attention MSI P67-GD65 owners

[TW]Fox · 13 Jan 2011 at 19:33

Can you do me a favour?

Can you let me know what the fan control situation is like on this board? Can you control all the fan headers or just some of them? Does Speedfan pick up all the fan headers or just some of them?

Thanks!

GeezerButler · 13 Jan 2011 at 19:42

You can only control CPU fan and System Fan 1 & 2. SysFan 1 is near the first PCI-e 1x slot and SysFan 2 is near the SATA ports.

[TW]Fox · 13 Jan 2011 at 19:53

Sigh, thanks

Are they 3 or 4 pin?

Andrew_McP · 13 Jan 2011 at 19:55

Only the first is 4-pin. And be warned, the CPU socket lever is hard as nails, and will scare you to death. Unless I did it wrong and my CPU is currently deciding when it's going to snap in half. ;-)

Andrew McP

[TW]Fox · 13 Jan 2011 at 20:07

So the CPU fan is 4 pin the rest are 3 pin?

GeezerButler · 13 Jan 2011 at 20:21

[TW]Fox;18221971 said:
So the CPU fan is 4 pin the rest are 3 pin?

Correct

TrojanWhore · 14 Jan 2011 at 00:35

Andrew_McP said:
be warned, the CPU socket lever is hard as nails, and will scare you to death. Unless I did it wrong and my CPU is currently deciding when it's going to snap in half.

Andrew McP

yeah these and 1156 socket retention scare the b'jesus out of me, glad im not just being a wimp. worst part is the sound, like its cutting into the PCB

Andrew_McP · 14 Jan 2011 at 04:32

TrojanWhore said:
worst part is the sound, like its cutting into the PCB

Either we're both doing it wrong or I know exactly what you mean. My first thought was "that can't be good!" Then I looked at the socket properly, saw it was clearly designed for robust forces, gritted my teeth, and... took it all apart again just in case I'd put the CPU in wrong. Then I did it again, just to be sure. ;-)

Andrew McP

Superted854 · 14 Jan 2011 at 08:45

The above coments make me feel better, thought I was doing something wrong when it starting making the grinding noise.

Oh well all seems to be working ok anyway

Stryda09 · 14 Jan 2011 at 10:12

My first intel setup so the sound of the pins when you close the retention thing worried me a bit. What Bios are you guys using btw?

GeezerButler · 14 Jan 2011 at 11:04

using 1.4 here. only problem I have at present is that my razer mouse doesnt work in the bios.

[TW]Fox · 14 Jan 2011 at 12:35

I have just learned that although the Asus board gives control for only ONE system fan, this actually refers to all fans as one - ie, adjust sysfan, and it adjusts ALL the system fans.

Is this also the case with MSI or do some of the fans always run at 100% no matter what?

GeezerButler · 14 Jan 2011 at 22:03

In MSI control centre in windows I can set CPU fan, sysfan 1 & 2 independently to 50%, 75% or 100%. Think you can set it the same in BIOS. Other fans will run at 100%.

Vertigo · 15 Jan 2011 at 09:13

[TW]Fox;18226734 said:
I have just learned that although the Asus board gives control for only ONE system fan, this actually refers to all fans as one - ie, adjust sysfan, and it adjusts ALL the system fans.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that the 1003 BIOS provides controls for three separate fans - CPU and System 1 & 2. Will check when I next reboot.

EDIT: Nope, you're right - there's only a single control for "Chassis fans" but this does control both of the fan headers (which are 3-pin).

Have to say that this is all I need and all my old Gigabyte board used to do. I have one 120mm rear inlet fan on one header and two 120mm exhaust fans at the top front (yes my airflow is backward) attached to the other header and it works fine. I'm just using the standard profile in the BIOS and the machine is next to silent during normal Windows use with a modest increase in fan speed and noise under load.