Control fans attached to mobo but based on GPU temp?

doyll · 17 Nov 2018 at 18:22

Grandmaster Fap! said:
Ive honestly never had any problems with their coolers, last one i had was on my ATI 6870, it went from being a tornado leaf blower to almost silent even at full load. I love Arctic

I've found using 25mm thick fans on GPU drops noise levels to almost non-existent. I'm spoiled by good fans .. really, really good fans .. and I still like and recommend Arict F series to people who want decent fans at low, low prices.

Arctic has a new line out, their P series. I need to get some and see how they do.
https://www.arctic.ac/uk_en/p14-pwm-pst-co.html

Grandmaster Fap! · 17 Nov 2018 at 18:30

doyll said:
Arctic has a new line out, their P series. I need to get some and see how they do.
https://www.arctic.ac/uk_en/p14-pwm-pst-co.html

Those look impressive! I have a bunch of F12 Silents in my case, they really are silent, only thing i noticed with their pwm fans is some of them have a bad ticking sound, i always thought voltage fans suffer that and not pwm?

LuckyBenski · 18 Nov 2018 at 00:44

doyll said:
I've found using 25mm thick fans on GPU drops noise levels to almost non-existent. I'm spoiled by good fans .. really, really good fans .. and I still like and recommend Arict F series to people who want decent fans at low, low prices.

Arctic has a new line out, their P series. I need to get some and see how they do.
https://www.arctic.ac/uk_en/p14-pwm-pst-co.html

Oh those look luuuush. 0% speed option, better static pressure and black too? I'm sold. F series have been my go-to for budget builds for ages.

Ross Thomson · 19 Nov 2018 at 18:20

I use the fan adapter on my GPU to control fans on the radiator for the karken G12. I use afterburner to control the fan speed. fans run at 0 rpm until a certain GPU temp. I could run the rad with no fans and it only hits 60c

Grandmaster Fap! · 20 Nov 2018 at 15:51

So ive attached two 120mm Bitfenix Spectres to the heatsink, both connected to a mobo header and controlled by Argus, absolutely flawless. They cool about the same as the stock fans but do it at way less speed so its almost silent. Glad i did it

Grandmaster Fap! · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:08

As an update to this, for some reason controlling the GPU fan speeds with Argus was causing something funky and i was getting hard locks that took ages to work out, even got a new PSU thinking it was the problem :/

Anyway i got a GPU pwm adapter cable and connected two Arctic Cooling P12's, my god these things are epic, great static pressure and VERY quiet at full speed of 1800rpm. At about 800rpm they keep my 1070 at about 55c and they are silent!

Ross Thomson · 18 Jan 2019 at 08:53

using the new P12's on both my GPU and CPU rads. might try the 140's for the boys AIO.

Distracted · 18 Jan 2019 at 09:09

Ross Thomson said:
using the new P12's on both my GPU and CPU rads. might try the 140's for the boys AIO.

I'm told that 140s have less static pressure than 120s. In general at least comparing like for like where only the size changes.

I havent tested this myself.

Ross Thomson · 18 Jan 2019 at 14:24

Distracted said:
I'm told that 140s have less static pressure than 120s. In general at least comparing like for like where only the size changes.

I havent tested this myself.

They have a 280 AIO in their system so 120's wouldn't be useful lol The have the p12 versions at the front though.

Distracted · 18 Jan 2019 at 14:29

ah, well that makes sense