BonzaiDuck
Lifer
I've scoured some of the forums for this board.
I only find one post by someone who says he can't control his CPU fan -- probably in reference to the stock cooler and fan for the Intel CPU. He was using a Penryn core.
The response to that post from somebody else: "Buy a cheap front-panel fan controller with rheostat knobs."
Apparently, a lot of these users were never concerned about fan-control, and I've noticed that here at Anandtech, people just prefer to buy low amperage, low CFM fans for their rigs.
I . . . . on the other hand . . . .
I expect that at least the CPU fan can be thermally controlled, but that was a status-quo for midrange boards at the time of the Northbridge and Prescott cores using DDR memory.
Does anyone else have similar observations to mine about the fan-control features in this motherboard?
On my ASUS Striker 680i, fan-control was fixed in mid-life-cycle BIOS revisions. Fixes for Penryn temperature sensors didn't really resolve things until an August 08 BIOS release.
One of the eVGA fan plugs does not give a tach-reading -- but it should -- and the fans had just been run on a system which accurately reported RPMs.
I only find one post by someone who says he can't control his CPU fan -- probably in reference to the stock cooler and fan for the Intel CPU. He was using a Penryn core.
The response to that post from somebody else: "Buy a cheap front-panel fan controller with rheostat knobs."
Apparently, a lot of these users were never concerned about fan-control, and I've noticed that here at Anandtech, people just prefer to buy low amperage, low CFM fans for their rigs.
I . . . . on the other hand . . . .
I expect that at least the CPU fan can be thermally controlled, but that was a status-quo for midrange boards at the time of the Northbridge and Prescott cores using DDR memory.
Does anyone else have similar observations to mine about the fan-control features in this motherboard?
On my ASUS Striker 680i, fan-control was fixed in mid-life-cycle BIOS revisions. Fixes for Penryn temperature sensors didn't really resolve things until an August 08 BIOS release.
One of the eVGA fan plugs does not give a tach-reading -- but it should -- and the fans had just been run on a system which accurately reported RPMs.
