

Now apparently, there've been revisions in SpeedFan. I really don't notice any deterioration in my computing life-style with this setup. And to keep things simple, I have a single CPU fan, an exhaust fan that is really a "puller" CPU fan, and two case fans for intake. I just don't have to have every fan in my system with its own profile. Simple is best elaborate and elegant options - gives you more options.

You might eventually use all the gears, but it kept your head straight to use fewer of them. You could also get your standard 10 or 15-speed derailleur racing bike. Seems to me those bikes were almost as good as today's expensive mountain bike. We used to put these big "long-horn" handlebars on the bikes. When I was a kid, you could get a Schwinn bicycle with a three-speed gear assembly. Yes, the top-end ASUS boards allow for individual CHA-FAN control.Īnd no - if there is only one profile for all chassis fans, they don't all run at the same speed they run at the same % duty cycle. Well, I'll just throw myself in here between OlyAR15 and soccerballtux.

After that, you could pretty much leave it alone. And frankly, once you've built and tested your PC, you only need to use Fan Xpert once or twice for "custom" fan profiles. If you don't want to install AI Suite, this almost meets expectations for thermal fan control without any adjustment outside of the BIOS. I just find the Fan Xpert to be essential - for me.īut in the BIOS, you can choose between "Turbo," "Standard," "User" and other settings on the fans, and they seem to perform on their own as if you'd created "fan profiles" with Fan Xpert. You can disable features of Suite that don't suit you. Nothing really wrong with the manual controls for Digi+VRM or even the "EVO" tuning screen which features the auto-overclocking. In fact, the worst problem people have with AI Suite is the "auto overclocking" feature. It is at least one feature of AI Suite for which I find little fault. The good board has double CPU-fan ports ("OPT"), and two or three (need to look when I have the time) - CHA ports with one PWR port.įor these boards there is "Fan Xpert" and high-end ASUS boards have "Thermal Radar." They work WITH the BIOS Q-Fan settings. I've worked firsthand with two ASUS boards released after May 2011 - the latest being one of those cheap "end-of-life-cycle" spinoffs. I was going to say that after I stumbled over this thread.
