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Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012, 19:55:30 schrieb James: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin <at> googlemail.com> writes: |
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> > are you going to blow the air in or out? |
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> Out the rear. So the 2 fans sandwich the |
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> radiator and aim outward? |
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> Also, the cpu/cooler backing supplied by Gigabyte |
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> fits well with the top bracket supplied by |
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> the cooler kit, so I'm using that in lieu |
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> of the cheap plastic back supplied with |
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> the cooler (OK?) |
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don't know - my cooler had a steel backplate and some screw-in mechanism... |
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(not a boxed water cooler). |
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> > hint: have the pump always run at full power but use fancontrol |
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> > to control the |
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> > fans - a lot of these pumps become pretty loud when they slow down. |
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> > Also, set fancontrol to start the fan at something like 40°C with 65°C max |
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> > - and most of the time the fans won't even spin, reducing the noise even |
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> > more. 40, 60, 70°C won't hurt your CPU at all. |
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> The mobo has (4) fan terminals :(1) 3 wire (sysfan2) |
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> (3) four wire sysfan1, CPUfan, pwrfan. |
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> This is a dual bios system. |
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so connect the pump to the 3 wire, the others to the four pwm connectors. |
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> Do both fans that sandwich the radiator run |
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> at the same setting? The kit came with a "Y" so both can connected to |
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> the same 4 pin (Y) connector. The chassis fan has a 3 pin |
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> connector, but the slots do fit in the (Y) harness |
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> correctly. The (Y) is wired for all 4 pins. So |
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> will there be a separate BIOS setting (control) for the rear |
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> fan, different than the fan to the inside of the |
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> radiator? If so, what settings do I set each fan to? |
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really, get pwm (for pin) fans and connect them to the four pin connectors. |
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> It seems I have plenty of fan power/control terminals, |
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> but the mobo install book gives no guidance as to which, where.... |
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> The chassis has a large fan (sysfan1 ?) for the drives, as well as the rear |
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> chassis fan(sysfan2 ?). |
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doesn't matter at all. Because you won't use the bios to drive the dans. |
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> Once I get Gentoo installed, what's the best software to monitor |
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> this cooler rig and set alarms? Auto shutoff if it overheats? |
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> (I run the system when I'm not around quite a bit)... |
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> I'd really like to know if one fan fails the other one is |
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> still working so guidance is appreciated, or just some |
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> discussion on how all of this should work. |
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> I'm presuming all of this is in the BIOS? |
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sensors, pwmconfig, fancontrol. No need to get the bios involved (except maybe |
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shutdown at 95°C) |