Q-FAN

FrostedNipple · 4 Dec 2006 at 14:41

q-fan, sucks, i want a way around it, basically i use a zalman aeroflower, at 100%spin its noisy, take off about 100-200 rpm and its practically silent, now im not a silent geek but i dont like sitting next to a jet engine. basically i think i know i can set the cpu fan speed rpm manually in the bios, so i have a look and the only option is some crappy q-fan thing which only gives me 3modes, silent, which i dont want or my cpu will fry, optimal which is far too slow, only runs at about 1500rpm, or performance, which is 100%

i used to disable q-fan so i could use speed fan to run my fan at 80% about 2400 rpm, this was as quiet as i licked it whitout it being too slow, but i want to know if there is a way around q-fan in the bios, a way of hard setting the rpm so i dont have to fiddle with speed fan and also so my computer will start up a that noise level, not start at jet engine levels

all my specs are in the sig except my bios version which is 0806

FrostedNipple · 4 Dec 2006 at 14:48

if i cant change this setting in the bios, which i doubt i will be able to untill asus bin q-fan which they probably wont, is there any programs out there that will run in startup in the background that will keep my fan at say 80% or 2400rpm whitiout me even having to click a button?

sorry for the double post but i didnt want you to read too much at once

FrostedNipple · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:33

3hr *nudge*

nightic · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:35

Turn off Q-fan and use this instead.

Or, if you've tried that, spend a couple of £ on a Zalman fanmate.

WJA96 · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:39

Or you could 7v mod the fan. Do a search for it in Case Central. It's dead easy and very effective.

squiffy · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:55

No problems with CPU Qfan here, it's adjustable, so can start it at 800rpm, and speed up to 1200rpm when the core 45 degrees or higher (ninja)

Joe42 · 4 Dec 2006 at 21:53

Q fan is completely different between asus boards.
On one of my asus boards they never bothered to finish it, so its an off/on setting in the bios and it doesn't work properly, just revs the fan up between full speed and almost off every couple of seconds.
Its completely different on my other asus board however, although still fairly useless.

When buying an asus board, assume it doesn't have a fan controller because i've yet to hear of a board with a q-fan implementation that actually works. By that i mean at least 3 adjustable rpm and adjustable temperature thresholds.

My cheap foxconn oem board has that for two fans, but neither of my high end asus boards which cost 4 times more have it.