Fan Control on Asus Maximus XI Hero

[Starwolf]

I've just received my shiny new PC from OcUK, so I am resetting my old machine for my nephew to use (it has an i9-9900K and an RTX 2080, so it's still pretty useable).

I have done a Secure erase on the drives and re-installed Windows 11, but the fan noise has increased enormously (I think most of the noise is from the PSU fan, but can't be 100% sure). The motherboard is an Asus Maximus XI Hero, so I installed Armoury Crate to manage fan speeds - only to find that despite having the options for fans, it doesn't save any changes, and a message pops up briefly to 'use the installed fan management software' - but there wasn't any installed. After some reading, I suspected that I need AI Suite 3, so I tried to download a version from this mobo/OS from the Asus website, but the software is not there - it looks like Asus have over-written it with a copy of WinRAR!

Is anybody able to help me find a compatible version of AI Suite 3, or an alternative way to bring the fans under control?

Thanks in advance

 

[Parsley]

I've just received my shiny new PC from OcUK, so I am resetting my old machine for my nephew to use (it has an i9-9900K and an RTX 2080, so it's still pretty useable).

I have done a Secure erase on the drives and re-installed Windows 11, but the fan noise has increased enormously (I think most of the noise is from the PSU fan, but can't be 100% sure). The motherboard is an Asus Maximus XI Hero, so I installed Armoury Crate to manage fan speeds - only to find that despite having the options for fans, it doesn't save any changes, and a message pops up briefly to 'use the installed fan management software' - but there wasn't any installed. After some reading, I suspected that I need AI Suite 3, so I tried to download a version from this mobo/OS from the Asus website, but the software is not there - it looks like Asus have over-written it with a copy of WinRAR!

Is anybody able to help me find a compatible version of AI Suite 3, or an alternative way to bring the fans under control?

Thanks in advance

You can set the fans to a profile based off fan header in the Bios, either manually or just "Silent" "Standard" etc etc. For the simplest solution I'd just do that.

If you want software I used Argus Monitor with a Maximus XI Formula, quite happily, for a fair few years. But that is paid for.

 

[Steampunk]

I've just received my shiny new PC from OcUK, so I am resetting my old machine for my nephew to use (it has an i9-9900K and an RTX 2080, so it's still pretty useable).

I have done a Secure erase on the drives and re-installed Windows 11, but the fan noise has increased enormously (I think most of the noise is from the PSU fan, but can't be 100% sure). The motherboard is an Asus Maximus XI Hero, so I installed Armoury Crate to manage fan speeds - only to find that despite having the options for fans, it doesn't save any changes, and a message pops up briefly to 'use the installed fan management software' - but there wasn't any installed. After some reading, I suspected that I need AI Suite 3, so I tried to download a version from this mobo/OS from the Asus website, but the software is not there - it looks like Asus have over-written it with a copy of WinRAR!

Is anybody able to help me find a compatible version of AI Suite 3, or an alternative way to bring the fans under control?

Thanks in advance

Check out Fancontrol. Very clever and flexible once you understand how it works. For instance, I use it to control the fans based on a specific fan curve depending on whether the CPU, hard drive or GPU is the hottest component.

 

[Starwolf]

You can set the fans to a profile based off fan header in the Bios, either manually or just "Silent" "Standard" etc etc. For the simplest solution I'd just do that.

If you want software I used Argus Monitor with a Maximus XI Formula, quite happily, for a fair few years. But that is paid for.

All of the fan header controlled fans are indeed controllable from the bios, and they are all now set to the Silent profile, so I am now convinced that the noise is coming from the Power Supply fan. It's a Seasonic PSU, so comes with the option of switching the PSU fan off if the machine is lightly loaded, which is enabled by a button on the PSU. Unfortunately, this button does nothing.

This is really annoying, because the machine was damned near silent until I started to re-install the OS

Check out Fancontrol. Very clever and flexible once you understand how it works. For instance, I use it to control the fans based on a specific fan curve depending on whether the CPU, hard drive or GPU is the hottest component.

I have concluded that the fan which is noisy is the PSU fan, so as far as I can see, it is not something that Fancontrol can help with. The machine has an AIO cooler, so that is pretty quiet, and when not under stress to GPU is quiet too, so the PSU fan really stands out.

 

[Steampunk]

I have concluded that the fan which is noisy is the PSU fan, so as far as I can see, it is not something that Fancontrol can help with. The machine has an AIO cooler, so that is pretty quiet, and when not under stress to GPU is quiet too, so the PSU fan really stands out.

Check the type of PSU, some have settings via a switch to allow you to go into quiet/silent modes at low utilization.

 

[Starwolf]

Check the type of PSU, some have settings via a switch to allow you to go into quiet/silent modes at low utilization.

It's a Seasonic, and yes it has a little button on it to switch off the fan when the load is low. That little button does absolutely nothing - the fan keeps going, no matter what the button is set to. That is damned annoying, as the machine was virtually silent until Windows was re-installed.

 

[Parsley]

If I recall, some of the power older seasonic powers supplies with a fan switch like that needed to be power cycled before that button actually took effect. Maybe give that a go?

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Not sure why installing windows
Would make your psu fan be loud suddenly if it
Wasn't loud before
You sure it's the psu fan?
And not a fan that's close to it?
And yes AI suite 3
I can't control mine in armoury crate either
And to be honest armoury crate is a total PITA anyway
It's always going wonky on mine parts of it work
But other parts dont
Usually the part you want to use wont work typically
Fancontrol software mentioned doesn't work on my board
Usually I use AI suite 3 and run some cpu and gpu benchmarks
Then adjust a fan curve in AI suite 3
And once happy with it I copy the fan curve into the bios
Just setting silent in the bios feels great to stop the noise
But may prove to be too slow once they put the cpu and gpu under load

 

[Parsley]

Asus software is seemingly getting worse and worse, so much bloat. I think my next board will be something different after getting an Asus z790 board. Though you can avoid it, RGB is controlled with OpenRGB and fans are done via Argus.

The CPU usage using their own RGB software was excessive!

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Asus software is seemingly getting worse and worse, so much bloat. I think my next board will be something different after getting an Asus z790 board. Though you can avoid it, RGB is controlled with OpenRGB and fans are done via Argus.

The CPU usage using their own RGB software was excessive!

Yeah I think they're trying to do too
Many things at once with armoury crate
Yeah I also uninstall asus aura
Using signal rgb on mine
Which I think is from same guy who developed
Open rgb
It's way better than open rgb though which is probably
Because there's also a paid version with even more features
So its had more development than open rgb
Controlling 6 or 7 different manufacturers leds with it
On my build
How motherboard manufacturers (especially gigabyte) can't produce
Really good rgb software is mystifying

 

[uscool]

MSI I found one of the better ones for RGB in my experience, got everything working using mystic light can set to disable MSI center to run on startup and still retains the lighting set , doesn't seem heavy either