ASUS Motherboard Temps

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 15:45

Hi everyone,

Currently playing around with fan curves because I'm not happy with my system noise. I'm using AI Suite 3 to monitor my temps and everything seems fine with what I've done, however there are 2 things I'm not sure about and these are the PCH temp and the Motherboard temp.

Can anyone tell me what acceptable temps are for these 2 things? And what max temps should be? Just want to make sure these 2 things are okay and then i'll be totally satisfied.

I have an ASUS Strix Z270f motherboard.
i7 7700k (but i don't overclock)
Asus Strix 2070 Super
H80i V2 (Running 1 fan due to case constraints)

Thanks for any replies

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 17:35

Those temps arent my high ones i'm worried about lol, i've been keeping track of them and the PCH has reached a max of 70c so far and the motherboard a max of 57c. From what you've said it sounds like these are still fine?

Thanks for your input though its making me much more at ease with my temps!

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 18:18

I'm going to switch out my stock cooler fan for a noctua one and switch out all 4 of my case fans for the Masterfan MF120R ARGB ones. Also my PC is under my desk so quite restricted air flow i imagine. When IKEA do home deliveries again after the Coronavirus lockdown is over I'm getting a bigger desk so I can have my PC on top of it. Hopefully all this will improve it. Other than that I can't do much else other than re-case my PC and I really don't want to be doing that.

Case - Phanteks P400s (Mine has a tempered glass side panel)

Noctua fan I'm going to get -
Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM, 4-Pin, High Performance Cooling Fan with 1700RPM (120mm, Grey)

EDIT - This image shows what I'm looking at when idle

I'm still monitoring my temps but playing 2 hours of Battlefield 1 and about an hour-ish of Control earlier only got me to the heights I mentioned before. While monitoring all that time it never got any higher but thats not saying it won't if i have a more intense gaming session.

Thanks for the info about the links man, hadn't a clue

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 19:02

I'm gonna order all my fans tonight and when they all arrive I'll fit them and see if they do me any favours other than just noise levels. I'll report back or make another thread if my temps increase from what I previously stated as well. Thanks for all your help

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 19:07

Yeah I'm using that software now and have been messing around with custom curves so I have some idea what I'm doing here. If im replacing that single corsair fan on my H80i V2 rad with the noctua one I mentioned will it be enough rpm? I assume it is from the monitoring I've been doing.

This is what I'm looking at now

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 19:25

Would you advise just playing around with fan curves then until i get a good balance between cool and quiet then? That's kinda what i'm doing now and why I'm monitoring temps so much in the first place.

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 22:28

So now I'm playing Warzone and my Motherboard temperature just got to 60c and it displays it in red. I take it this isn't an issue based on what you said before? Any idea why its showing in red?

Steven Hughes · 11 Apr 2020 at 23:04

Okay thank you, i'll do this tomorrow. However if you say 57c is fine but 60c is in red (I posted a screenshot of this btw) then surely that's just a software specific thing and it isn't actually that bad?

Steven Hughes · 12 Apr 2020 at 17:33

So today I've been using that app to monitor and I took my front panel off and the temps started dropping instantly and in the hour since then that i played my motherboard temp never got above 45c. I looked online and found a mesh front panel that was made for the p400A Phanteks case but also fits my P400s. I've ordered this and I'll fit that when all my new fans come and I'm sure I'll see a massive difference!

Steven Hughes · 13 Apr 2020 at 14:33

Looking at my case (p400s), where would you put the intake fans and exhaust fans? I have 2 fans on top and 2 in the front, I'm thinking my intake should be on top and exhaust in the front? Just planning how I should have my new ones.

Also I need a new desk for multiple reasons lol, this one is falling apart

Steven Hughes · 17 Apr 2020 at 12:26

Coojeekitten said:
I also have an ASUS board & use AI Suite. How do you manuall adjust the fan curves & is there a way to determine which fan is which?

BTW, I can't see any of your images. Did you take them down?

Nah they were Gyazo links so they probably expired.

So if you go on AI Suite and click on Fan Xpert 4, you'll see each individual fan. You can adjust one fan curve to really high and then you'll be able to look at or hold your hand above the fans and see which ones are faster.

Note that if you run two fans off one splitter then they'll both be under one heading. My front 2 fans are called Chassis 1 and my top 2 are called Chassis 2.

I recommend adjusting them how wookiee said as well.