Can Speedfan adjust the Chipset Fan RPM

[JMoore]

Title pretty much says it all?

 

[stability99]

Maybe not because chipset don't have temp sensor as CPU, that's why it cannot throttle.

But it depend on what mobo you have. Some of "em has option to tweak out. Please inform more and people overhere will help you solve it.

Test it and you'll see it.

 

[JMoore]

Thats what I thought. Right now may mobo has a heatsink, but I was wondering what I should do when I upgrade to an A-64 system. Most of those mobos have fans and I didn't really want to bother replacing the fan with a Zalman Heatsink. I also sort of want to keep the fan on.... in case I ever want to overclock.

 

[Wentelteefje]

If you're talking about a nForce4 mobo, there is a good chance that its chipset fan will be noisy... I, however, never heard mine (MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum), and that's with two silent 120mm case fans, an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64, a NV Silencer 5 Rev. 3, and a very silent PSU with a single 120mm fan...

No screaming chipset fans for me, but others report having obnoxiously loud ones... It seems like a case of YMMV...

EDIT: I never had any luck with Speedfan unfortunately... 🙁 If I want to slow down, I regulate it with a Fan Mate 2, or I solder a resistor on...

 

[Phantom1983]

Well, I own an Abit NF7 2.0 and the chipset fan screams like an animal in pain for the first 60 seconds of booting, then mysteriously shuts up once HDD activity idles. I would recommend a silent chipset cooler which, as long as there is plenty of case ventilation, should do fine.

Sadly, in my experience, most chipset coolers do not have plugs whose form factor lends themselves to fan controllers (and IMO they should).