Auto Control On Fan Speeds!

up2nogooduk

up2nogooduk

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Hi,

I have a Gigabyte X58 G1 sniper Motherboard!

I'm after getting these fans, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-057-AK&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=4 -7 fans in all. 2 for cpu, the rest for the case. or would you say something better?

I was thinking of getting a splitter cable to run all 7 fans.
As what i want to do, is have the board detect the EXACT TEMPRETURE the heat from the cpu, and then it controls the fans speed up and down just like a graphics card does!
Is this possible to do. as it be nice to have it silent, but once games are being played and heat go up on the cpu, the fans get higher of course :)
I know you can get fan controller but been there before, and just fancy doing this way :)

If anyone knows or has tried this, please help us out :)

Cheers. :)
 
I thought this was a standard feature anyway? All my computers have always done this apart from those Ive had connected to a fan controller.
 
Rik1254 said:
I thought this was a standard feature anyway? All my computers have always done this apart from those Ive had connected to a fan controller.
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On my old pc i had the fans connected to the headers on the board, and they run at full speed! as i've never tried it, is there something in the bios you have to enable?

stulid said:
http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?...ype_sub=Fan Cable Adapters&model=AK-CBFA03-45

This can connect to 5 PWM (4pin) fans, it takes power from a molex plug and has a header to then plug into a CPU motherboard header.
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Then this would then run the fans at the lowest RPM then increase as the CPU gets hotter?!
Would a need an extra 2 splitter also, to controller the other 2 fans?

Also, are them fans the ones to go for, for cpu cooler also?

Cheers :)
 
There's BIOS options, usually, and additionally there's often Windows software. I'm pretty sure the high end board you have will have both, but I've never used it so I can't promise. My Asus board does control Chassis fans as well as CPU fans, and I have it set to ramp them up as the temperature increases. I have a large amount of control, although not quite as much as I'd like.
 
Those fans are good, as for using a splitter cable to run more, cant answer this, the splitter would need to be 4pin also.
 
Technically you should be able to fit two of those splitters together to allow the control of 9 total fans. You'd need to connect each splitter to a 4 pin Molex peripheral connector to get power to all the fans and of course you'd only get speed reporting off one of the fans from all that are connected.
 
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