ABit uguru - Useful or not?
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25-30 more that what? (see below)
uguru - fan control software in bios/windows (on PRO and MAX boards - IP35PRO is £30 more that IP35) or
uGuru panel - a display panel for a spare drive bay - showing fanspeed / temps with USB & Firewire ports.
The first is excerlent if you have more that 2 fans inc cpu cooler, as it's will 7v mod them for you
and the pro/max abit boards have more that just uguru for the extra money (xFire, eSATA)
The second is ok if you like displays, and makes more sence of your question - personally I say no
Only ever brought Abit boards that had uguru onboard, never needed the panel.
uguru - fan control software in bios/windows (on PRO and MAX boards - IP35PRO is £30 more that IP35) or
uGuru panel - a display panel for a spare drive bay - showing fanspeed / temps with USB & Firewire ports.
The first is excerlent if you have more that 2 fans inc cpu cooler, as it's will 7v mod them for you
and the pro/max abit boards have more that just uguru for the extra money (xFire, eSATA)
The second is ok if you like displays, and makes more sence of your question - personally I say no
Only ever brought Abit boards that had uguru onboard, never needed the panel.
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25-30 more that what? (see below)
uguru - fan control software in bios/windows (on PRO and MAX boards - IP35PRO is £30 more that IP35) or
uGuru panel - a display panel for a spare drive bay - showing fanspeed / temps with USB & Firewire ports.
The first is excerlent if you have more that 2 fans inc cpu cooler, as it's will 7v mod them for you
and the pro/max abit boards have more that just uguru for the extra money (xFire, eSATA)
The second is ok if you like displays, and makes more sence of your question - personally I say no
Only ever brought Abit boards that had uguru onboard, never needed the panel.
How good is the fan control? Can you automatically do different speeds at different temps? (ie: different temp ranges = different speed)
Yes, it's the best hardware monitor/fan control from any of the mobo manufacturers (by far).
You usually have the choice per fan of 3 different temp references (CPU, PWM & SYS) to use for controlling that fan, available fan voltage usually runs 6V-12V.
uGuru is certainly worth something although it in itself I wouldn't say was worth £25 but as mentioned uGuru boards tend to have other extras as well.
It's not perfect but it's certainly useful.
You usually have the choice per fan of 3 different temp references (CPU, PWM & SYS) to use for controlling that fan, available fan voltage usually runs 6V-12V.
uGuru is certainly worth something although it in itself I wouldn't say was worth £25 but as mentioned uGuru boards tend to have other extras as well.
It's not perfect but it's certainly useful.
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i have a mobo with that uguru software you can do loads in it i only use for fan control and its awesome. my mobo has 7 fan headers so i can control 7 fans with it/ you can set an low temperature and a high temperture and then what speed you want the fans to run at while at those points anything from 6v to 12v. the cpu fan is slightly different. that one you still have the low and high temp but you set the speed as percentage 30%-100%.
you can then monitor fans speeds aswell as all the temperatures in your case. also all the voltages. its also an on the fly overclocking tool but i never used that dont trust it lol prefer to use bios.
but for fan monitoring its awesome just have to make sure you buy fans with 3pin headers to monitor the rpm. as i forgot once lol
you can then monitor fans speeds aswell as all the temperatures in your case. also all the voltages. its also an on the fly overclocking tool but i never used that dont trust it lol prefer to use bios.
but for fan monitoring its awesome just have to make sure you buy fans with 3pin headers to monitor the rpm. as i forgot once lol
So with a low and high temp you can basically set you fans to (just) two different speeds according to temp? You can't for example like ATI Tool do half dozen different ranges/levels? So fans ramp up rather than just toggle between two speeds?
fan speed ramps rather than running just high & low.
In the Windows GUI for uGuru you have a no. of factory preset profiles & 3 user configurable profiles which you can jump between at a mouseclick & you could configure those to each have different behaviour.
In the Windows GUI for uGuru you have a no. of factory preset profiles & 3 user configurable profiles which you can jump between at a mouseclick & you could configure those to each have different behaviour.
Nice! I program/control all my fans thru my LCD display unit at the moment, but would prefer it to be thru a better/easier interface. HOWEVER, as the fans are controlled by pulse rather than voltage, it does mean you can get nice strobing effects. eg: At certain fan speeds they look like they're still or turn very very slowly - kinda cool really...
The only thing about 'pulse' driven rather than voltage driven is it is noisier! Which at the end of the day is your main concern of course...
As long as you can defined 3-4 ranges of temps/fan speeds for 3-4 fan headers, sounds perfect!
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As you / buff said above - each profile has only two states (high/low)
but you have 3 custom stats to play with - aka idle (6v-8v) surf/office (6v-9v) Gaming (8v-12v) and can switch between then with two clicks if uGuru in the system tray
Pre watercooling my system was under 100% cpu load 24/7 and the fans at 6v in winter and 8v summer never hit that 10v high once
(but then I don't own a hot GPU)As you / buff said above - each profile has only two states (high/low)
but you have 3 custom stats to play with - aka idle (6v-8v) surf/office (6v-9v) Gaming (8v-12v) and can switch between then with two clicks if uGuru in the system tray
Pre watercooling my system was under 100% cpu load 24/7 and the fans at 6v in winter and 8v summer never hit that 10v high once
Oh! That doesn't sound very good! 'BUFF' implied it was not just high/low when he said, 'fan speed ramps rather than running just high & low.'
In an ideal world (as I currently do) you'd basically just specify a set up temps and when those temps are reached, the fan speed applicable is applied to the specified ban. So as my CPU temp rises the fans increase accordingly, in a number of stages (about 3-4)... Infact my rear fan slowly increases (in about 4 steps) as my CPU temp goes up, and my top fan only comes on at all when temps get quite high. Simple and very effective!
Just having a high low setting is a bit limited, and having to manually flick between profiles just seems daft TBH! You have temperature sensors so let's use them!
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on mine it definitely varies between them, it doesn't just run at either the max/min settings.
the profiles encompass overclock settings as well, not just fan control so as shadowscotland says you can have e.g. an underclocked, normal & differeent overclocked setups.
Oh! I see... But none-the-less, I can see why you would want to 'click' between different overclock settings, as there's no way that could be automated.
But (ideally) the fan speeds should really just have 3-4 ranges available to be defined irrespective of overclock. Surely it doesn't matter if you get to a certain temp by you overclocking the machine and playing a game, or just using a windows app on the hottest day in summer - you'd want the fans to speed up just the same and cool down just the same...
But you recon fan speed(s) ramps up? So you define a low temp and a high temp and the fan speed speeds up/slows down according to where you are between those temps? And don't just flick between two speeds?