Asus Q-fan - useless?

slowrunner

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Just had to swap motherboards from a Gigabyte P35-DS3L (got a bit flakey after running an E2160 at 3Ghz for 2 1/2 years) to an Asus P5QL/EPU, and I just cant get on with this Q-fan rubbish.

On the old P35 board Easy-tune 6 would happily run my Akasa
Nero S at a fantasticly quiet 650rpm. On this Asus board the Q-fan method seems to think the fan can only go at around 1020rpm.

So, what can I do to get the fan speed down again?
 
Ok so it looks like I've got speedfan to do it's thang, but having to manually open it is a pita, how do I get it to load on boot up? (it's been quite a while since I last messed with boot-ups).
 
I think there's an option in Speedfan. You can also drop a shortcut to the application in your startup folder within startmenu, that's what I did.
 
I think you have it at the wrong setting. I have q-fan enabled and my apaches run at 540 rpm when idle.

There are 3 Q-fan settings: Standard, Turbo and silent. Set it to standard
 
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I have to say I found Q-Fan really good on my old Asus board. If you don't like it though, you'll be able to turn it off completely in the BIOS.
 
Temi_D said:
I think you have it at the wrong setting. I have q-fan enabled and my apaches run at 540 rpm when idle.

There are 3 Q-fan settings: Standard, Turbo and silent. Set it to standard
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No matter what I had q-fan set at, it ran around 1020rpm.

I think I've found the root cause of the trouble though, idle temp of 47 even after having the fan on full blast for an hour, after a bit of reading up that means sticking temp sensors on the cpu.
 
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