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Subject: fans cannot be turned off?
By: maiki (IP: 195.47.18.*)
Written on: 19-12-2007 19:42

THE HEATSINK GUIDE: Build yourself a fan temperature control

Is there any commercial product like this? Currently I own a six months old motherboard by ASUS with Q-Fan control and it does not allow for the fan to be switched off. Perhaps, safety regulations do not allow that?

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By: Aresrin (IP: 71.201.2.*)
Written on: 20-12-2007 20:00

The closest I\'ve ever seen is the Silverstone FP-52 Eudemon Fan Controller

you can read up on it here: http://www.extrememhz.com/eudemon-p1.shtml

however you cannot adjust the temperature settings, so your fans will only turn off when the temperature drops below 13C, which only happens if you live in an igloo.
By: Aresrin (IP: 71.201.2.*)
Written on: 20-12-2007 20:30

Try downloading Speedfan, if it works with your motherboard you can set your fan speeds to whatever you want.
By: maiki (IP: 195.47.18.*)
Written on: 22-12-2007 13:58

\"your fans will only turn off when the temperature drops below 13C, which only happens if you live in an igloo\"

This might explain, why my Q-Fan controlled MB does not turn the case fan off. It runs, however very quiet, so there is probably nothing more we can do about it. Which is, a shame, because in my notebook , I get mos of the time, absolutely NO fan rotation at all, and if I changed the HDD for a SSD one, there would be no noice except for.... the DVD drive which I hardly use anyway...

Also I tried that program, but it just shows that the fan operates at 0 RPM, so probably the sotfware is not smart enough... My BIOS show some RPMs I can\'t remember the exact value but it was around 600 RPM (ASUS Q-Fan set to QUIET).

Remember I am talking about the case fan at the back, not the CPU one, since I have got a passive heatsink (thermaltake-cl-p0323) on my Celeron 420 which runs on about 23-30 degress celsia.
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