Asus ROG Strix Z370-E fan pin connector locations

Spirit-Warden

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I think the builder at Overclockers connected the 3 case fans I have (Be quite! Silent Wing 3) to the PSU, apparently this should cause each fan to run at full speed however they aren't spinning much and this is causing major heat buildup when playing modern games.

I want to connect the fans to the motherboard so I can use Asus's AI Suite to control the fan speed, or at the very least have the fans rev up in response to heat build.

Problem is I'm technologically illiterate, I have no idea what goes where. Could someone grab a picture of the Asus ROG Strix Z370-E and do a babies first Motherboard diagram, draw some rings around the fan pin connectors? Cheers.
 
If the fans are connected to the PSU then they'll likely be running at full speed so connecting to motherboard will either give you the same speed, or lower. If the fans are connected to a case built in fan controller then things may be different.

And when you say major heat build-up what sort of temperature are you getting up to?
 
I'm not sure how to monitor the temps apart from the GPU, which gets to about 60+ after roughly 20 minutes.

Sitting in a freezing cold room I start sweating after less than 10. The fans just aren' pushing out much, I can put my hand right on the back and feel almost nothing.
 
For monitoring I use MSI Afterburner as you can use it for CPU and much more while in game, I also used to use PC wizard although I'm not sure if that will work Windows 10. Although may I ask why you are getting worked up about the fans? It sounds like you computer isn't getting to hot as you haven't mentioned any shutdowns and 60c is nothing.
 
Just because the only that' changed recently is the case. Used to be a BeQuite Pro 900 and now it's a Fractal R6. Before I was gaming for hours at a time and everything was cool, I could feel the airflow putting my hand at the back, it was warm but not boiling and even after hours I don't think it ever for warm enough for the GPU fans to start.

Now it gets hot after 10 minutes, and as I said I can put my hands by the back and barely feel the airflow. I haven' tried gaming for the same length of time just because I'm worried about how hot it might end up getting.
 
The Asus software you've already mentioned will tell you system temps.

The motherboard manual will have a diagram showing you where the connectors are located. Are you sure they're connected to the PSU though? I can't see any reason to do that these days.
 
I'd used Speedfan and Asus's own fan software but they only detect the CPU fan but not the 3 case fans. I did take the panel off to have a look 2 days ago, from memory I remember my 2 SSDs were plugged in and not a whole lot else.
 
Looking through the manual I found 2 things labelled CHA_Fan 1/2 I think that's what I need. Still 1 other fan in my case, can I connect that to the M.2 connector? Would the Asus software still left me control the speed of that fan if so?
 
Spirit-Warden said:
Looking through the manual I found 2 things labelled CHA_Fan 1/2 I think that's what I need. Still 1 other fan in my case, can I connect that to the M.2 connector? Would the Asus software still left me control the speed of that fan if so?
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I'd have thought so, or you can use the CPU_OPT connector. I've got the Z370-G and although I only have it controlling one fan, it seems to let you control any of them however you want.
 
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