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May. And yeah I’m loving the new system. This is the post where I got it setup .... Experience with Gigabyte motherboards?
I double-checked the BIOS and found that I do/did in fact have Smart Fan enabled. Still, it's curious that the fan would vary that much considering it's a non-variable fan.
Seems to me Gigabyte has the board setup to have the CPU fan header setup to vary its current based on temps when Smart Fan is enabled, regardless of whether you use a 3 or 4-pin fan. That’s too large a variable to think otherwise.
At any rate it’s not an issue as far as I’m concerned, just something I never expected.
Here's the cooler...