Running it off the CPU temp via the motherboard is fine, just not quite what I wanted.įor the side fans though I really wanted to base it off GPU temperature as if I used CPU, they'd be running flat out when I ran video encodes on the CPU which would be entirely unnecessary. I've simply set a different profile for the front fan so it does not stop at low CPU temperatures, unlike the CPU cooler which I've set to shut the fans off below 35C. Since all but one of the disks has been replaced with SSDs though, that's now less important.
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What I originally wanted was to run the front fan from a sensor derived from the hard drive temperatures, whether that be through software or through a thermal probe affixed to one of the disks. NH-D15 cooler fans - connected to motherboard cpu_fan and sys_fan1 both using a profile based off CPU tempĢ30mm front fan - connected to motherboard sys_fan3, using a different profile based off CPU tempġ40mm rear fan - connected to motherboard sys_fan2, using a different profile based off CPU temp The system is currently set up as follows:
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Since running more modest hardware in the case, the side fans haven't been necessary but, assuming I will ever be able to get hold of one, looking at the heat output into the case of the current gen of top-end GPUs, if I upgrade to using one I'd like to reinstate the side fans. Once upon a time I ran a pair of HD4870X2s in this case, so the side panel of the HAF932 has had the 230mm fan swapped for four 120mm Scythe Slipstreams (and likewise the top fan for another two).
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This is on the system with the B550 Aorus Elite. What can I say, I've had countless fan controllers over the years (because most of them weren't very good!) and every one has supported voltage-based control until now, I'd never seen a fan controller that only worked off PWM before.
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I'm not comfortable spending £100 on a fan controller that still means I have to use my motherboard's fan controller for half the fans in my system, I don't think that's justified. Evidently, if non-PWM fans are used with Aquasuite, apparently the rpm values can't be read correctly? I'm not really sure I understand the science behind that one, but the outcome is that I need the £100 Aquaero model (double that if I wanted the front bay display, which fortunately I don't) just for four fan channels. Perhaps I'm expecting a bit much for the product to be labelled 'for PWM fans only' instead of just 'PWM fan controller' - to me, having worked with countless old hardware fan controllers over the years, I'm used to seeing PWM control as the luxury, and voltage control always available, so when I see PWM fan controller I read 'oh, it supports PWM fans too', not that it's exclusively for PWM fans. After querying this with Aquacomputer, seemingly the Quadro units (and all the associated products) are PWM-only, and have no voltage regulation. OK my previous post was a bit reactionary, but I am beyond frustrated with trying to get a separate fan controller to do what motherboards now do flawlessly. The motherboard in this machine has a pretty good fan controller but it only supports 5 fans and also can't read, for example, the GPU as a temperature sensor.Īre there any other products on the market like these that do a slightly less terrible job? I used an NZXT Grid a few years back and found the software pretty woeful, so I'm not all that keen on using that either. are better, but irrelevant for my purposes. I would write this off as a one-off faulty unit but quick googling suggests some of these issues are widespread with this device and seemingly it's just a pretty poor excuse for a fan controller, perhaps the RGB features etc. It also periodically thinks fans are temperature sensors, is unable to accurately read the rpm of any of the fans, and keeps telling me I have a pump connected to the temperature sensor port. After connecting two fans to it and checking that combined they did not exceed the current rating per channel I blew out one of the fan control channels within seconds, and although the other channels still work, if they draw any more than 100mA or so, the device reboots itself and reappears a few seconds later, in an infinite loop.
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Unfortunately, it's an absolutely terrible product. After a recent upgrade I added a Corsair Commander unit for the purpose of having temperature-controlled fan speeds in various parts of my machine.