Just Built 965P-S3 w/ E6600 & Zalman 9500

[digitaldose]

Just finished the following build:

Gigabyte 965P-S3
E6600
2 Gigs Corsair DDR2-800Mhz
PNY Geforce 8800 GTS
Zalman 9500 HS/Fan
Ultra X-Connect 500W PSU

When I power up the system, it hesitates for 2-3 seconds while I hear the typical beep when you power up a system, then the fans start to spin and it starts to post. This is definitely strange but not the biggest problem. At first I had hooked up the fan controller that came with the Zalman however I could see that the CPU fan was running very slow and turning the dial on the fan controller only went from slow to slower. I then unhooked the fan controller and hooked the fan directly to the CPU fan connector on the motherboard (the motherboard seems to have a 4 pin connector while the fan is a 3 pin connector, it fits just fine though). With the fan controller out of the picture, the fan still runs slow. According to the readings in the BIOS the CPU fan is running at about 1200 RPM which seems way slow.

I'm thinking the Ultra 500W PSU should be just fine here. I've been using it with my previous system (MSI K8N Neo2 Plat., Athlon 64 3500+, 1Gig Crucial Ballistix, Geforce 6800GT) with no issues.

Any ideas on what might be going on here. I'm installing XP on the system as we speak, seems to be going fine so far however I'm guessing the temp will get really high with the fan running so slow plus I plan to overclock slightly at some point.

 

[Duvie]

Use easy tune 5 and smart fan and change the speed....I think you can also do something to the plug....The Zalmann has temperature sensor that controls fan speed. You can change the % and temps that trigger fan speeds...

I jacked my Scythe fans up that way.


1200rpm is a bit slow for a 92mm fan...When you load it does the fan speed increase?

 

[Duvie]

http://www.svc.com/cnps9500at.html

according to this that is way low.....


When you plugged in the fan controller on the Zalmann did you make sure you were usinig a regular 12v 4 pin molex plug and not a 7v or 5v plug? Some PSU's come now with 4 pin molex for fans and they appear to be modded for lower voltage.

 

[bcracer220]

i think u guys are way overthinking this, my friends got nearly the same setup (except with an e6400) same board etc. all u need to do it go into the bios is disable fan control and speedstep.

 

[Duvie]

That is true....I think it is the power sub menu of the bios....It is set to auto right now by default....

 

[digitaldose]

Ok, Under the health monitor section of the BIOS (currently BIOS version F5) There are settings for "Fan Speed Method" and "Fan Speed Control", they were both set to Auto by default.

I set the Fan Speed Control Method to Disable, saved and rebooted. Now when I go into Easy Tune 5 under the Hardware Monitor section the RPM's for the CPU fan now read about 2560 RPM's so that seems to have fixed things (and now I can actually see the fan spinning much faster). The only thing in Easy Tune that I noticed which still doesn't make much sense is the Fact that the "Smart Fan" button is greyed out, not sure why I can't get into that menu.

Should I still be able to get the RPM's up higher or is this now normal?

 

[Duvie]

Cause you disabled it in the bios.....Was it grey when those 2 things were enabled inthe bios? As long as the fan is thermal controlled and plugged into the cpu header it should have functionality....

That is why I described what I do....I just set 100% of fan to temp normally see with full load of F@H....That way at idle it runs 60% fan speed at around 30c and hits 100% at 40c....

 

[digitaldose]

Actually, it was greyed out also before I disabled the setting I described in the BIOS. According to the specs. on the 9500 it's max. RPM is stated as 2600 RPM so I'm right about at that mark.

Still wondering why Smartfan menu is greyed out in the EasyTune5 application though...

 

[imported_Thumb]

I also have the problem with the cpu fan. No matter what I do the fan only goes about 800-900 RPM then stops. The CPU temp starts out at around 36C but then goes up to around 48C after the fan stops. Sometimes the fan will come back on and sometimes it does not. This is all running at idle also. The only difference in my system is that I have a Coolermax 700W PSU and Kingston DDR2 800 1 GB stick. Oh, almost forgot, the Smart Fan is also greyed out on mine too no matter what Bios setting I have.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Thumb
I also have the problem with the cpu fan. No matter what I do the fan only goes about 800-900 RPM then stops. The CPU temp starts out at around 36C but then goes up to around 48C after the fan stops. Sometimes the fan will come back on and sometimes it does not. This is all running at idle also. The only difference in my system is that I have a Coolermax 700W PSU and Kingston DDR2 800 1 GB stick. Oh, almost forgot, the Smart Fan is also greyed out on mine too no matter what Bios setting I have.

Check your thermal protection for the CPU. I used to have a Venice that ran so cool (according to the BIOS) that the default thermal protection would shut off the fans because it told my board that it didn't need them spinning. I simply turned that off and manually set my temperature ranges.

 

[Conky]

I bypassed this problem with my DS3 and used an adapter to connect my heatsink fan to a 4-pin molex connector.

Now my AC Freezer Pro 7 runs full blast all the time like I want it to. It's not a noisy fan even at full speed... in fact, if I could get a faster and more powerful fan for it, I would.

 

[emilyek]

Set mode to Voltage

Turn the other one off.

 

[rxblitzrx]

Good stuff. My parts should be arriving in the next couple days and I have a very similar setup. Hopefully this info will help if I run into a similar problem.

Current build:

E6400 @ 3.4?
Gigabyte S3
Corsair 2 x 1GB DDR2-800 4-4-4-12
Antec True430W
Thermaltake Big Typhoon

 

[Roguestar]

^^^ Don't expect more than 3.2 with that RAM.

@ OP: I have the same motherboard and fan. With Fan Speed Control Method set to Disable the fan will run all the time at ~2600 and the smartfan part of easytune will be greyed out because you've disabled fan control. Nothing to worry about there.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Roguestar
^^^ Don't expect more than 3.2 with that RAM.

LOL, what? The RAM will not be the bottleneck until past 3.6GHz.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Roguestar
^^^ Don't expect more than 3.2 with that RAM.

LOL, what? The RAM will not be the bottleneck until past 3.6GHz.

Um, because the RAM is only rated for 800, and that gives him a max FSB of 400, x8 multiplier is 3.2Ghz. The corsair RAM has apparently been very weak overclocking now that they have switched out the D9 chips.

 

[rxblitzrx]

Originally posted by: Roguestar
^^^ Don't expect more than 3.2 with that RAM.

I'll be happy with 3.2 GHz. Another 200 MHz isn't going to make a huge difference. I'm just glad I got the RAM for cheap.

However, the memory is rated at DDR2-800 which means it won't even be overclocked at 3.2GHz. DDR2-850 can't be asking that much can it???