Is anyone using software cooling (i.e. speedfan) on your skylake board, and which?

[wsaenotsock]

If anyone has a software cooling set up working on your Skylake (LGA1151) motherboard, I would be interested to know which board you bought so I can consider it for my next build. Meaning you can adjust the fan speed in the OS... using either Speedfan or some other software... and it adjusts the 3 pin/4 pin fan speeds. Thanks!


Now for a bit of a back story: My current rig on this stupid AsRock z77 motherboard does not support software cooling, or at least I was never able to configure it with Speedfan. Its really quite infuriating after building a nice rig, just to hear the fans running at 100%... especially all of my previous systems being capable of spinning down to dead silent, and only spinning up while gaming. So I am not letting that happen again.

 

[Magic Carpet]

The ASUS Z170 series boards have what you want. Z170-A if to be specific. I didn't test it with SpeedFan but BIOS has many options. You should be satisfied. Great fan control indeed.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

I used to run speedfan, but more modern boards have this kind of speed control available in the bios, even my elcheapo asrock h81 pro btc.

 

[Auric]

To override the motherboard control in SpeedFan: Readings tab - Configure button - Advanced tab - Chip dropdown select - PWM mode Set to Manual.

 

[Deders]

I use Argus Monitor to link my side fan to my GPU temp. I have to not have Asus suite load in order to do so as it overrides all other programs.