Greetings, I currently rebuilt my Dell XPS 630i (650i motherboard Q6600 CPU) with the Asrock P67 Extreme 4, i5 2600K CPU. The way my Dell was originally setup had the 2 front chasis fans connected to the Master I/O board that would control the fans and LED lights on the chasis. I was originally able to control these with a Nvidia Performance control panel (but it didn't seem to always work correctly, by that I mean it would never seem to increase the fan RPM's when under load even though that setting was activated).
So when I installed the new Asrock board I wanted to use the 4-pin chasis fan connectors on the board and have all my fans controlled thru the Bios/Asrock Extreme Tuning Utility. The problem I have is that when attaching my fans directly to the new motherboard the lowest RPMs I can achieve are 2,000 (which is quite loud, compared to being hooked up to the Master I/O board that I can no longer control, but apparently spins at a much lower and quieter RPM). When adjusting the fan target speed from 1 to 10 the RPMs increase in increments of 200, so when cranked up to 10 I'm hitting 4,000 RPM's.
Is there anyway to limit the lower end starting RPM's on my chasis fans (the Bios setting is already at level 1 which is 2,000 RPMs)? Albeit some Bios tweak, or even some add on limiter between the fan and the motherboard...
This is my first build and everything else has gone perfect, but not being able to lower the fan RPMs is driving me nuts!!!
Thanx in advance for any help or recommendations.
So when I installed the new Asrock board I wanted to use the 4-pin chasis fan connectors on the board and have all my fans controlled thru the Bios/Asrock Extreme Tuning Utility. The problem I have is that when attaching my fans directly to the new motherboard the lowest RPMs I can achieve are 2,000 (which is quite loud, compared to being hooked up to the Master I/O board that I can no longer control, but apparently spins at a much lower and quieter RPM). When adjusting the fan target speed from 1 to 10 the RPMs increase in increments of 200, so when cranked up to 10 I'm hitting 4,000 RPM's.
Is there anyway to limit the lower end starting RPM's on my chasis fans (the Bios setting is already at level 1 which is 2,000 RPMs)? Albeit some Bios tweak, or even some add on limiter between the fan and the motherboard...
This is my first build and everything else has gone perfect, but not being able to lower the fan RPMs is driving me nuts!!!
Thanx in advance for any help or recommendations.
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