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Windows 7 - Fans speed |
06-15-2011
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#1 | | Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate: x64 (SP1) |
Fans speed Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to post it but here you have it.
The thing is my two custom fans are quite noisy. They're plugged in the motherboard so you'll be able to turn it down. They're using 12V each and 1350 RPM. Now, how to turn these down? Should I just turn 50% speed, and expect they ain't that noisy?
Screws are tight by the way.
The question is, should I turn down the RPM (if possible), or the Voltage to 6V if possible. I'm not familiar with BIOS, so please detail your guide
Cheers!
FredeGail | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Builded OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate: x64 (SP1) CPU Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Memory Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB Graphics Card ASUS GTX 560 TI DirectCU II 900MHz Sound Card Realtek Soundcard Monitor(s) Displays ACER LCD P246HBD 1920x1080 (24") - Dell 1280x800 Screen Resolution ACER LCD P246HBD ~ [1920X1080] - DELL ~ [1280x800] Keyboard Logitech G15 Mouse Coolermaster Sentinel Advanced PSU Corsair 750W Power Supply Case Cooler Master CM Scout Cooling Cooler Master CM Scout Case Cooling Hard Drives 500 GB WD Caviar SE116 7200rpm SATA2 Internet Speed [↓ 10 MB/s DL] [↑ 1 MB/s UL] Other Info AKG Headset. |
06-15-2011
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#2 | | Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) |
hi there 
i would invest in a bay fan speed controller if you have a spare drive bay mine is a sunbeam it controls 4 fans with four knobs with led lights for each fan blue for high speed red for half speed as you turn the knob down/up the light will change color to let you no the speed. ebay is a good place to look you must have good shops in Denmark? Quote: 4 channel rheobus is the ultimate in fan control. With the ability to variably alter the voltage to your exact specifications, this offers advantage to our line of switched baybus'. The LEDs supplied on this unit are ultra-bright blue, and red according to voltage being put through the channel. Low RPM is Red color, high RPM is Blue color, changes at 7V.
Don't forget that each channel can provide 20 total watts of output... so you are not limited to four fans on this unit. You can power as many fans as you want, as long as you do not exceed 20W per channel. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number packard bell IXTREME M5722 OS Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) CPU Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2500 MHz Motherboard Mainboard : Packard Bell (Acer EG43M ) Memory Physical Memory :8GB Corsair4x 2GB 800MHz C5 DDR2 Graphics Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Sound Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Monitor(s) Displays PACKARD BELL Viseo 23" : Maestro 23.1" Benq 22" V2220 led : Screen Resolution Current Display :1920x1080p pixels at 60 Hz in HD LED Keyboard Gigabyte Aivia K8100 Mouse TRUST-Wireless Laser Mouse - Carbon edition MI-7770C PSU XFX ProSeries 550W PSU Case PACKARD BELL IXTREME Cooling System Blower Current: 150mA Air Flow16CFM ;Akasa 90mm rear Hard Drives Hard Disks : WDC (1000 GB)
Drive C: (Hard Disk) : 428 GB available on 491 GB
Drive D: (Hard Disk) : 426 GB available on 492 GB
SAMSUNG spinpoint HD103SJ 1000.2 GB
(X 2) KINGSTON SSD NOW V 30GB Internet Speed TP-LINK > TL-WN951N / AV200 Gigabit Powerline Adapters Other Info EXTRA COOLING>(FAN CONTROLLER) PC Bay Cooler 3 x 40mm fans; Akasa AK-HD-BL Blue hard drive cooler 2 x 40 mm fan 4500 rpm 29.7 dBA
Bios> American Megatrends Inc.
Version : P01-A1
Date : 08/31/2009 |
06-15-2011
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#3 | | Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate: x64 (SP1) |
I could, of course.
But is it possible with it?
Best Regards,
FredeGail | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Builded OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate: x64 (SP1) CPU Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Memory Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB Graphics Card ASUS GTX 560 TI DirectCU II 900MHz Sound Card Realtek Soundcard Monitor(s) Displays ACER LCD P246HBD 1920x1080 (24") - Dell 1280x800 Screen Resolution ACER LCD P246HBD ~ [1920X1080] - DELL ~ [1280x800] Keyboard Logitech G15 Mouse Coolermaster Sentinel Advanced PSU Corsair 750W Power Supply Case Cooler Master CM Scout Cooling Cooler Master CM Scout Case Cooling Hard Drives 500 GB WD Caviar SE116 7200rpm SATA2 Internet Speed [↓ 10 MB/s DL] [↑ 1 MB/s UL] Other Info AKG Headset. |
06-15-2011
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#4 | | Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) |
go in the bios and half the voltage to the fans and see if it is ok dont change the cpu fan | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number packard bell IXTREME M5722 OS Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) CPU Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2500 MHz Motherboard Mainboard : Packard Bell (Acer EG43M ) Memory Physical Memory :8GB Corsair4x 2GB 800MHz C5 DDR2 Graphics Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Sound Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Monitor(s) Displays PACKARD BELL Viseo 23" : Maestro 23.1" Benq 22" V2220 led : Screen Resolution Current Display :1920x1080p pixels at 60 Hz in HD LED Keyboard Gigabyte Aivia K8100 Mouse TRUST-Wireless Laser Mouse - Carbon edition MI-7770C PSU XFX ProSeries 550W PSU Case PACKARD BELL IXTREME Cooling System Blower Current: 150mA Air Flow16CFM ;Akasa 90mm rear Hard Drives Hard Disks : WDC (1000 GB)
Drive C: (Hard Disk) : 428 GB available on 491 GB
Drive D: (Hard Disk) : 426 GB available on 492 GB
SAMSUNG spinpoint HD103SJ 1000.2 GB
(X 2) KINGSTON SSD NOW V 30GB Internet Speed TP-LINK > TL-WN951N / AV200 Gigabit Powerline Adapters Other Info EXTRA COOLING>(FAN CONTROLLER) PC Bay Cooler 3 x 40mm fans; Akasa AK-HD-BL Blue hard drive cooler 2 x 40 mm fan 4500 rpm 29.7 dBA
Bios> American Megatrends Inc.
Version : P01-A1
Date : 08/31/2009 |
06-15-2011
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#5 | | Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate: x64 (SP1) |
Is there any danger in doing this?
Will the RPM have 50% too?
How to recognize that it's the right fans (maybe checking on the RPM)? Because i'm not sure it'd tell you the Model - As it's a Yate Loon
Best Regards,
FredeGail.
EDIT; Reputation for you | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Builded OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate: x64 (SP1) CPU Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Memory Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB Graphics Card ASUS GTX 560 TI DirectCU II 900MHz Sound Card Realtek Soundcard Monitor(s) Displays ACER LCD P246HBD 1920x1080 (24") - Dell 1280x800 Screen Resolution ACER LCD P246HBD ~ [1920X1080] - DELL ~ [1280x800] Keyboard Logitech G15 Mouse Coolermaster Sentinel Advanced PSU Corsair 750W Power Supply Case Cooler Master CM Scout Cooling Cooler Master CM Scout Case Cooling Hard Drives 500 GB WD Caviar SE116 7200rpm SATA2 Internet Speed [↓ 10 MB/s DL] [↑ 1 MB/s UL] Other Info AKG Headset. |
06-15-2011
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#6 | | Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) |
leave the bios if you are not sure you don't want to damage anything, you can use software to called SpeedFan Download SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer read the instructions on how to use it before you try it and see if you are comfortable with it Quote: If you need a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes, then you came to the right place. SpeedFan is the software to go. It is fully configurable and you can create custom events to handle every situation in an automated way. SpeedFan works under Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista and Windows 7. SpeedFan works fine on 64 bit too. The relevant driver is now signed with my digital certificate. And this all costs you absolutely nothing!
SpeedFan allows you to have a deeper view of the status of your computer. Almost every computer includes support for hardware monitoring. Accessing digital temperature sensors is really useful. If you are trying to figure out why your pc hangs when under heavy load or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you to find the real cause. Very often it is a poor power supply, or an improperly installed heatsink that lead to behaviours that we tend to associate with errors from the operating system, but that are not. SpeedFan automatically searches your computer for interesting chips: the hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can expose voltages, fan speeds and temperatures. On rare occasions, the BIOS doesn't activate such features. SpeedFan tries to enable them as long as this is a safe thing to do. Not only the motherboard is searched, but also some video cards and almost every recent hard disk. SpeedFan can access status info from EIDE, SATA and even SCSI drives, showing, in a consistent way, internal data that can be used to diagnose current and future hard disk failures. This is known as S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise.
Last edited by brianzion; 06-15-2011 at 02:41 PM..
| My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number packard bell IXTREME M5722 OS Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) CPU Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2500 MHz Motherboard Mainboard : Packard Bell (Acer EG43M ) Memory Physical Memory :8GB Corsair4x 2GB 800MHz C5 DDR2 Graphics Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Sound Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Monitor(s) Displays PACKARD BELL Viseo 23" : Maestro 23.1" Benq 22" V2220 led : Screen Resolution Current Display :1920x1080p pixels at 60 Hz in HD LED Keyboard Gigabyte Aivia K8100 Mouse TRUST-Wireless Laser Mouse - Carbon edition MI-7770C PSU XFX ProSeries 550W PSU Case PACKARD BELL IXTREME Cooling System Blower Current: 150mA Air Flow16CFM ;Akasa 90mm rear Hard Drives Hard Disks : WDC (1000 GB)
Drive C: (Hard Disk) : 428 GB available on 491 GB
Drive D: (Hard Disk) : 426 GB available on 492 GB
SAMSUNG spinpoint HD103SJ 1000.2 GB
(X 2) KINGSTON SSD NOW V 30GB Internet Speed TP-LINK > TL-WN951N / AV200 Gigabit Powerline Adapters Other Info EXTRA COOLING>(FAN CONTROLLER) PC Bay Cooler 3 x 40mm fans; Akasa AK-HD-BL Blue hard drive cooler 2 x 40 mm fan 4500 rpm 29.7 dBA
Bios> American Megatrends Inc.
Version : P01-A1
Date : 08/31/2009 |
06-15-2011
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#7 | | Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) |
i use the manual fans with the controller because i feel more in control and not relying on software plus the controller looks good! i power mine from the psu.
when you tun the voltage down the rpm goes down visa/versa its the voltage that makes the speed so to speak.
thanks for the rep but lets get you happy with the fans! | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number packard bell IXTREME M5722 OS Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) CPU Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2500 MHz Motherboard Mainboard : Packard Bell (Acer EG43M ) Memory Physical Memory :8GB Corsair4x 2GB 800MHz C5 DDR2 Graphics Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Sound Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Monitor(s) Displays PACKARD BELL Viseo 23" : Maestro 23.1" Benq 22" V2220 led : Screen Resolution Current Display :1920x1080p pixels at 60 Hz in HD LED Keyboard Gigabyte Aivia K8100 Mouse TRUST-Wireless Laser Mouse - Carbon edition MI-7770C PSU XFX ProSeries 550W PSU Case PACKARD BELL IXTREME Cooling System Blower Current: 150mA Air Flow16CFM ;Akasa 90mm rear Hard Drives Hard Disks : WDC (1000 GB)
Drive C: (Hard Disk) : 428 GB available on 491 GB
Drive D: (Hard Disk) : 426 GB available on 492 GB
SAMSUNG spinpoint HD103SJ 1000.2 GB
(X 2) KINGSTON SSD NOW V 30GB Internet Speed TP-LINK > TL-WN951N / AV200 Gigabit Powerline Adapters Other Info EXTRA COOLING>(FAN CONTROLLER) PC Bay Cooler 3 x 40mm fans; Akasa AK-HD-BL Blue hard drive cooler 2 x 40 mm fan 4500 rpm 29.7 dBA
Bios> American Megatrends Inc.
Version : P01-A1
Date : 08/31/2009 |
06-15-2011
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#8 | | |

Quote: Originally Posted by FredeGail Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to post it but here you have it.
The thing is my two custom fans are quite noisy. They're plugged in the motherboard so you'll be able to turn it down. They're using 12V each and 1350 RPM. Now, how to turn these down? Should I just turn 50% speed, and expect they ain't that noisy?
Screws are tight by the way.
The question is, should I turn down the RPM (if possible), or the Voltage to 6V if possible. I'm not familiar with BIOS, so please detail your guide
Cheers!
FredeGail Hi again FredeGail,
If we're talking about case fans and not the cpu fan, then this seems like a lot of hassle just to reduce noise. There's no need to plug case fans into the motherboard, so why not just get a couple quiet fans with really low RPM's, plug them directly into the PSU and call it a day? You could also see what these fans sound like not plugged into the board... which may be speeding them up unnecessarily? | My System Specs | | OS 7 Ultimate x64 CPU i5-2500k Motherboard Asus P8P67 Pro Memory 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL7D-8GBXH 1866MHz 8-9-8-24 Graphics Card EVGA GTX 570 SC Sound Card X-Fi Titanium Fatality Monitor(s) Displays Samsung S27A550H 27" LED Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard MS Natural Elite 4000 Ergonomic Mouse Logitech G500 PSU PC Power & Cooling Silencer 760 Case Lian Li Lancool K62 Cooling Thermalright Venomous X Black/Scythe S-Flex/Shin-Etsu X23 Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120GB.
1TB Samsung F3.
2TB Samsung F4. Internet Speed 6MB/768 Other Info Logitech Z-5500 505 watts.
D-Link DGL-4500.
Tripp-Lite Smart Pro 1500. |
06-15-2011
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#9 | | Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) |
good Fumz would save a lot of messing around with settings on the fan markings it tells you the db to give you a guide but its quite simple less speed less noise. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number packard bell IXTREME M5722 OS Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64) CPU Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2500 MHz Motherboard Mainboard : Packard Bell (Acer EG43M ) Memory Physical Memory :8GB Corsair4x 2GB 800MHz C5 DDR2 Graphics Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Sound Card Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series Monitor(s) Displays PACKARD BELL Viseo 23" : Maestro 23.1" Benq 22" V2220 led : Screen Resolution Current Display :1920x1080p pixels at 60 Hz in HD LED Keyboard Gigabyte Aivia K8100 Mouse TRUST-Wireless Laser Mouse - Carbon edition MI-7770C PSU XFX ProSeries 550W PSU Case PACKARD BELL IXTREME Cooling System Blower Current: 150mA Air Flow16CFM ;Akasa 90mm rear Hard Drives Hard Disks : WDC (1000 GB)
Drive C: (Hard Disk) : 428 GB available on 491 GB
Drive D: (Hard Disk) : 426 GB available on 492 GB
SAMSUNG spinpoint HD103SJ 1000.2 GB
(X 2) KINGSTON SSD NOW V 30GB Internet Speed TP-LINK > TL-WN951N / AV200 Gigabit Powerline Adapters Other Info EXTRA COOLING>(FAN CONTROLLER) PC Bay Cooler 3 x 40mm fans; Akasa AK-HD-BL Blue hard drive cooler 2 x 40 mm fan 4500 rpm 29.7 dBA
Bios> American Megatrends Inc.
Version : P01-A1
Date : 08/31/2009 |
06-15-2011
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#10 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit |

Quote: Originally Posted by FredeGail Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to post it but here you have it.
The thing is my two custom fans are quite noisy. They're plugged in the motherboard so you'll be able to turn it down. They're using 12V each and 1350 RPM. Now, how to turn these down? Should I just turn 50% speed, and expect they ain't that noisy?
Screws are tight by the way.
The question is, should I turn down the RPM (if possible), or the Voltage to 6V if possible. I'm not familiar with BIOS, so please detail your guide
Cheers!
FredeGail Hello
Your motherboard has headers for one power fan and two Chassis fans. The Chassis fan speed can be set to Standard, Silent and Turbo by enabling Chassis Q-Fan Control in the bios. Setting the speed to Silent should quiet things down a bit. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self-built OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit CPU Intel Core i7-3770 Motherboard Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3 Memory G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 F3-10666CL9D-8GBNT Graphics Card Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6670 Sound Card Realtek ALC892 Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster P2370HD, Dell 1703FPT Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech Deluxe 250 Mouse Logitech MX518 PSU SeaSonic M12II SS-500GM Case Lian Li PC-9F Cooling Zalman CNPS9900LED Hard Drives Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ Internet Speed 8 Mbps All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:16 PM. |  |