So yeah, my case fans are controlled by the same signal that controls the CPU fan speed, and since I have a massive heatsink it hardly ever heats up, both on the desktop or in games.
That causes the case fans to run at minimum speed most of the time, which results in the heat building up inside my case, resulting in the much noisier GPU fans kicking in every now and then.
What I'd like to do is to have the CPU fan controlled by both CPU and GPU temperature, whichever is higher, to provide more general airflow and lower the temps inside my case, and I don't know of any piece of software that can do that.
My motherboard has a fan curve option in the BIOS but it can only read CPU and chipset features, and the fan doesn't even show up in SpeedFan.
I checked the bloatware that came with my mobo but it doesn't have the options I need either.
Are there any other programs I could try?
I've been looking for a similar solution.
I also have some case fans that specifically blow onto the GPU, but I've found no way to control their speed according to GPU temps.
From what I'm reading the BIOS can't directly read GPU temps (due to handwavey PCI-E stuff in BIOS). I'm not certain how you could do it with any off-the-shelf software, however if you feel somewhat adventrous, you could tap off the power/PWM fan connector on your GPU with one of these guys. Then plug your GPU mounted fan back into the splitter and your case fan into the other splitter plug.
That way you can control your case fans like you would do with the normal GPU fans in MSI Afterburner or whatever GPU OC software you use to set fan curves.
Do you have a temp sensor header on your mobo? Because you might have to add a temp sensor and tack it to the back of the GPU somehow or something. Technically if you don't have a temp header on your mobo you could get a fan controller that does and do it that way as well.
If you're using both an asus mobo and asus gfx card iirc AI suite works for this kind of thing?
it's probably much simpler to get a fan controller that has a thermal probe and attach that to the gpu heatsink.
I'm trying to get the case fans to ramp up before the GPU fans even turn on, so this wouldn't really work :v
Besides the GPU fan connector is mounted in a way that would require me to take off the heatsink before I could unplug it, and I'm just... not doing that, I only have one kidney left after building this PC
Nope
MSI and Gigabyte, respectively
I think I'm just gonna do that, the case is very silent so I guess I'll just make the fans max out at 50°C
The only program that I can think of that'd help out is SpeedFan. I'ts a pain to get your head around but with some dedication it should do what you're looking for.
technically you could split the GPU fan header with the PWM pin from the CPU. Theoretically as the GPU fan ramps up or the card tells it to, it should follow.
You could always get a PCI slot fan bracket as well to put near the GPU and suck heat away from it.
Or yeah like they said, max out case fans in the profile settings. Do you have a blower style card or a dual fan?
Corsair commander pro is pretty versatile and I've based all my fans on my loop's temperature. It comes with some temperature probes with it. Not exactly the answer you're looking for but it's worth a shot! The software can also read GPU temps so you can base it off of that.
Speedfan does it lads.
I read my gpu temp and set all my fans off of that due to water loop.
I literally said in the post you quoted that SpeedFan doesn't work, it only shows a couple temperature readings, but it doesn't recognize my motherboard or show any fans on the list
First of all, is this even a desktop,
if not, you are shit out of luck, because it should be easy to get it working on a desktop.
Yes
I'm now seeing that the last SpeedFan version has been released in 2016 so I'm not surprised it's not working with a late 2017 Z370 motherboard
Advanced>Chip
Play with settings, see if any of the options pop some fan controls up on the main hub screen
Nope, only things I'm seeing in that menu are "temperature offsets", none of the chips make any fans show up, neither GPU nor CPU
I guess SpeedFan just needs an update, oh well vv
I doubt its SpeedFan that is the problem, I used a version from like 2014 on my other new PC and it worked fine. Your mobo would have to be the issue in that case.
You didnt see any pwm options when selecting your mobo chip directly underneath? If you see them listed, change them to manual control.
SpeedFan doesn't play well with newer motherboards.
Why are you disagreeing with me?
I have the exact same problem as OP where SpeedFan just doesn't do jack, because it simply doesn't work with all motherboards nowadays.
I hate to be the guy suggesting the paid options, but Corsair's fan controllers will let you do this. I rely on it in my setup.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/657/80b952af-9bf1-4531-83d9-f46a570beef9/image.png
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
