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I must be dreaming. I thought this was targetted at overclockers and yet somehow it seems that I'm slowly finding that it is a piece of crap!
Have found a few other posts now relating to people finding that of the 8 4-pin fan outputs on the thing, that only CPU and CPU_OPT can actually control the speed of a PWM fan, and even those two are actually tied.
But like at least one other post I've found, I can't actually get any control of any PWM fan from any header, either by tweaking in the bios or in AI Suite Fan Expert II.
The board came from overclockers.co.uk flashed with latest bios, it also came from them with the fans from the radiator (H110) plugged into the splitter on the back and hence rigged for just max voltage (just a 3 pin parallel thing).
Have tried the 4 fans I just bought in my old PC and also the two (LOUD) corsairs I'm replacing with them in my old PC (a very old very standard mboard) and they are all perfectly controllable with PWM, so nothing wrong with the fans.
I've tried all of the headers, they will happily adjust 3-pin fans, and they all can read the speed of both 3-pin and 4-pin fans.
This is insane, I'd have jsut sent the thing back if I thought it was something broken but I'm struggling to find that to be the case - several posts on other forums about the same thing, and I keep reading people's builds with other 2011 socket IV BE boards and they are all using 3-pin fans, they don't say why, they just seem to be using them.
Please someone tell me that I'm wrong and that there is a setting somewhere. No guessing please, no extrapolating that it must be madness 'cos you have a similar board that runs 17 PWM fans and yours cost way less etc., or any reading of spec sheets... someone out there must have the same board in their computer and be controlling the speed of PWM fans, surely?
I've tried playing with all the settings under the bios for fan control, I can't find a single one that makes any of the fans go any faster or slower, disabling q control, putting on 'turbo' or 'silent' etc. They do nothing for any fans, 3-pin or 4-pin. The AI suite seems to be able to adjust the 3-pin fans, assuming I plug them into one of the four headers it can control, CPU, Chassis1, 2 &3. It can read the speed of all fans, be they 3 pin or 4 pin and in any of the aforementioned or any of the opt fan headers.
Have found a few other posts now relating to people finding that of the 8 4-pin fan outputs on the thing, that only CPU and CPU_OPT can actually control the speed of a PWM fan, and even those two are actually tied.
But like at least one other post I've found, I can't actually get any control of any PWM fan from any header, either by tweaking in the bios or in AI Suite Fan Expert II.
The board came from overclockers.co.uk flashed with latest bios, it also came from them with the fans from the radiator (H110) plugged into the splitter on the back and hence rigged for just max voltage (just a 3 pin parallel thing).
Have tried the 4 fans I just bought in my old PC and also the two (LOUD) corsairs I'm replacing with them in my old PC (a very old very standard mboard) and they are all perfectly controllable with PWM, so nothing wrong with the fans.
I've tried all of the headers, they will happily adjust 3-pin fans, and they all can read the speed of both 3-pin and 4-pin fans.
This is insane, I'd have jsut sent the thing back if I thought it was something broken but I'm struggling to find that to be the case - several posts on other forums about the same thing, and I keep reading people's builds with other 2011 socket IV BE boards and they are all using 3-pin fans, they don't say why, they just seem to be using them.
Please someone tell me that I'm wrong and that there is a setting somewhere. No guessing please, no extrapolating that it must be madness 'cos you have a similar board that runs 17 PWM fans and yours cost way less etc., or any reading of spec sheets... someone out there must have the same board in their computer and be controlling the speed of PWM fans, surely?
I've tried playing with all the settings under the bios for fan control, I can't find a single one that makes any of the fans go any faster or slower, disabling q control, putting on 'turbo' or 'silent' etc. They do nothing for any fans, 3-pin or 4-pin. The AI suite seems to be able to adjust the 3-pin fans, assuming I plug them into one of the four headers it can control, CPU, Chassis1, 2 &3. It can read the speed of all fans, be they 3 pin or 4 pin and in any of the aforementioned or any of the opt fan headers.
