Kraken G12 Install

NeverWinter

NeverWinter

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I've recently installed a G12 on to my Zotac 1080 AMP, it has a 92mm PWM fan attached via a GPU FAN PWM adapter, however it's constantly running full blast.

Tried manually setting it in afterburner to no avail, any ideas?

Other than that, temps are great now!
 
I use my mother board fan headers to control it - I know how hot my cpu gets during games so it isn't an issue. my rad fans are controlled by afterburner. with no fans, the gpu hits 65c max
 
What pump are you using it with?

I paired the G12 with a Kraken X42 AIO which has a connector for the 92mm fan in the wiring loom. This allows control of the fan through their CAM software.
 
Do the VRMs and memory require a fan curve? You may find an intermediate setting that isn't too loud is plenty. That way you can set it from your controller and not worry about it.
 
Using the OcUK kit, so an Asetek 240mm 570LX so it's connected to the motherboard headers and no software.

The problem was it wasn't slowing down.

The VRMs and VRAM have heatsinks on them though so I may be alright, but without any temp sensors on them I can't tell and would prefer a fan curve from the GPU when it heats up, rahter than currently relying on the CPU heating up to increase PWM.
 
What about using a fan hub (something like this) and joining it up with the radiator fans connected to a motherboard header? That way, when your GPU is under load the 92mm fan will speed up with the GPU rad fans... and spin down with the rad fans when the GPU is idling.

You could even then use something like SpeedFan to have super fine control over the fan curves.
 
ShowdownPhil said:
What about using a fan hub (something like this) and joining it up with the radiator fans connected to a motherboard header? That way, when your GPU is under load the 92mm fan will speed up with the GPU rad fans... and spin down with the rad fans when the GPU is idling.
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I've already done this, however this only works when the motherboard starts to heat up - not the GPU on its own.
 
NeverWinter said:
I've already done this, however this only works when the motherboard starts to heat up - not the GPU on its own.
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That's where SpeedFan comes in. I tied my GPU rad fans (and the 92mm fan) to the GPU processor temperature. Ideally it would be to a temp probe on the VRMs (rather than the processor), but they ain't going to get hot without the processor already getting hot, so seemed like a fair alternative to me.

I presume NZXT CAM can do something similar, but that seemed like such a clusterf of a program I gave up on it and went back to SpeedFan. It's a complex program, but with a bit of learning (and youtube tutorials), I was able to dial in set of curves that work for me. Would recomend giving it a go.
 
Grid+ fan hub plus CAM does work and the software has improved a lot over time but it has very occasionally not loaded at boot and needed a re-start or update to fix. So not a perfect solution but you can set GPU or CPU referenced temps.
 
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