H100 fans running at full speed ?

What does this all mean exactly though, I am so tired of this now that It is starting to get on my nerves, lol, I dont mean you guys are, I just mean the whole thing.

Does what helios1234 mean, mean that we need to buy another part or what ? My brain is totally fried with this now and starting to lose the plot, lol.

thanks guys. :)
 
A PWM fan works just like a 3pin fan on 3pin circuit. Have seen other instances of 4pin socket being 3pin function. Gigabyte X58E-UD3R have 2x 4pin headers but only 1 is PWM ;)
 
doyll said:
A PWM fan works just like a 3pin fan on 3pin circuit. Have seen other instances of 4pin socket being 3pin function. Gigabyte X58E-UD3R have 2x 4pin headers but only 1 is PWM ;)
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my motherboard is in my signature, so what do I do and will doing this then show me the H100 stock fans speeds please ? (without buying anything).;)
 
When I had the H100, the third setting on the CPU block meant that the fan would operate at full speed all the time. Switching it to the first setting reduced the fan speed but I noticed it sped up after a while and stayed that way which is very annoying. Corsair doesn't make it explicity clear but the three settings are "Quiet", "Balanced" and "High peformance". So you can't set the fan speed to adjust based on temperature using the button which is what you are trying to achieve.

Because the fans use 3 pin connectors, the only way to control their speed is by voltage control. Some motherboards do have that function but not ASUS. So you would have to use a fan controller to achieve that.

Your other option is to get fans that support PWM and connect it to the appropriate header on your motherboard and then you can use the options in BIOS to control the fan speed.

As for Corsair Link, it's an expensive piece of kit that probably won't help you.
 
There's an old addage "The simplest things are the most complicated, either to design or understand" My MSI board has 4pin headers only but one or two on the drawing have N/C on the last of the 4pins effectively 3pin headers and it allows me to specify say 40% 60% & 80% [<not exact figures] but that is fixed.
 
Just got this and having the same problem. I have an Asus z87 sabertooth.

Firstly when I start my machine it says "CPU Fan Error", the only way to get around this is to set "Ignore CPU monitoring" in the bios and then I can get into Windows.

If I do this I cannot measure the H100 fan speeds and they constantly run at full speed. So how am I meant to monitor my fan speeds? The CPU Fan header on my board is 4 pin and the one with the H100 is 3 pin.

Looking at the past comments it looks like this maybe a trait of the H100 and it is not advertised that way by stating "Quiet", "Balanced" and "High performance" modes. I expect that when I want to use my PC at night that I should be able to switch to "quiet" mode and not disturb anyone with fan noise.
 
If I get a splitter and run it of my Lamptron fan controller (fc5 v2) will I still be able to monitor the pump in bios or even in Asus' AI suite?

If that's possible then I'll get a splitter. Still disappointed that the modes don't work.

Thanks
 
majnu said:
If I get a splitter and run it of my Lamptron fan controller (fc5 v2) will I still be able to monitor the pump in bios or even in Asus' AI suite?

If that's possible then I'll get a splitter. Still disappointed that the modes don't work.

Thanks
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Just to update I got a splitter and now control my fan speeds from my fan controller. Bios still reports the CPU Fan header speeds which I guess relates to the pump. So next time someone is thinking of getting this AIO cooler, the modes do NOT work, unless you get a Corsair Link. The cooler is not advertised that way!!!!
 
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