BonzaiDuck
Lifer
As should be obvious for a litany of threads and forum posts over the last few years, I choose to use the proprietary motherboard software as much as possible for fan-control.
I also tend to favor ASUS motherboards. [Please -- if you hate ASUS Suite -- save the hissing, p***ing and spitting for another thread.]
I turn off much of the ASUS sub-program options within Suite. Defining the fan curves works perfectly fine for me. Once done, you don't need to "run" Suite in the system tray or at startup.
Different versions of ASUS Fan Xpert have features of varying refinement.
In my version, bundled with the P8Z68-V Pro[and Gen3] motherboards, you can only define two fan curves: One for CPU and CPU_OPT fans, and the other for the CHA_FANs -- all except for the PWR_FAN port.
I had noticed with some brief familiarity with the Suite version bundled with their Sabertooth Z77 board, the fan-control feature allows for maybe three curves. Can't remember with total certainty, but I thought there were two CHA_FAN curves and one for the CPU fans.
So my question: Would it be possible to run a later version of the same mobo maker's fan-control software on an earlier motherboard? Or would it work if you could?
DISCOVERIES: I've been tweaking and playing with fans and fan-control software since I built the first of these two systems (my sig) in late 2011.
Working with two difference heatpipe coolers and some beefy fans like the Gentle Typhoon AP-30 and Noctua iPPC 3000, I had everything running at a reasonably quiet level up to the temperatures I'll tolerate during extreme stress-tests.
But I never paid attention to what I'd always known as fact, at least with this generation of ASUS boards. ASUS Monitor always reports the CPU temperature at about 8C lower than other reliable software like HWMonitor, RealTemp or Aida. This calibration discrepancy seems to be constant across a range of temperatures -- from idle to load.
So I've been setting my fan speeds based on incorrect temperatures! Maybe I wondered why the fans sort of fell behind in RPMs at my highest load temperatures, but I had been pretty well satisfied with the results, anyway.
I can determine myself as to whether this discrepancy continues with ASUS Z77 or Ivy Bridge boards, since we have just such a system here. I'd be curious for any discoveries about the socket 1150 or 2011v.3 motherboards and software, even so. It would also be interesting and valuable to learn if there are such discrepancies in the bundled software of other motherboard makers and boards.
Moral of story: if you find a discrepancy, set your fan curves to temperatures that account for it. [I can't believe I overlooked this detail for so . . darn . . long!]
I also tend to favor ASUS motherboards. [Please -- if you hate ASUS Suite -- save the hissing, p***ing and spitting for another thread.]
I turn off much of the ASUS sub-program options within Suite. Defining the fan curves works perfectly fine for me. Once done, you don't need to "run" Suite in the system tray or at startup.
Different versions of ASUS Fan Xpert have features of varying refinement.
In my version, bundled with the P8Z68-V Pro[and Gen3] motherboards, you can only define two fan curves: One for CPU and CPU_OPT fans, and the other for the CHA_FANs -- all except for the PWR_FAN port.
I had noticed with some brief familiarity with the Suite version bundled with their Sabertooth Z77 board, the fan-control feature allows for maybe three curves. Can't remember with total certainty, but I thought there were two CHA_FAN curves and one for the CPU fans.
So my question: Would it be possible to run a later version of the same mobo maker's fan-control software on an earlier motherboard? Or would it work if you could?
DISCOVERIES: I've been tweaking and playing with fans and fan-control software since I built the first of these two systems (my sig) in late 2011.
Working with two difference heatpipe coolers and some beefy fans like the Gentle Typhoon AP-30 and Noctua iPPC 3000, I had everything running at a reasonably quiet level up to the temperatures I'll tolerate during extreme stress-tests.
But I never paid attention to what I'd always known as fact, at least with this generation of ASUS boards. ASUS Monitor always reports the CPU temperature at about 8C lower than other reliable software like HWMonitor, RealTemp or Aida. This calibration discrepancy seems to be constant across a range of temperatures -- from idle to load.
So I've been setting my fan speeds based on incorrect temperatures! Maybe I wondered why the fans sort of fell behind in RPMs at my highest load temperatures, but I had been pretty well satisfied with the results, anyway.
I can determine myself as to whether this discrepancy continues with ASUS Z77 or Ivy Bridge boards, since we have just such a system here. I'd be curious for any discoveries about the socket 1150 or 2011v.3 motherboards and software, even so. It would also be interesting and valuable to learn if there are such discrepancies in the bundled software of other motherboard makers and boards.
Moral of story: if you find a discrepancy, set your fan curves to temperatures that account for it. [I can't believe I overlooked this detail for so . . darn . . long!]
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