bye bye, Motherboard Monitor.

[curtybob]

Everyone here who has been around long enough to know me, knows I have been around awhile. I have always recomended Motherboard Monitor as a utility for monitoring system temps, voltages and fan speeds. Well... NO LONGER!

I had someone tell me that they use SpeedFan for this stuff, and that it does a whole lotta other cool stuff. For instance, it can change the FSB speeds on some motherboards (but this isn't the main function of it), it can change the fan speeds (making your PC quit sounding like an Apache helicopter), AND you can program it to take over all fan speeds that are plugged into the motherboard, and it varies them according to the temps of your CPU, PWM (chip that controls fans and such), GPU, HDD, or case (depending on the features of your motherboard and video card).

This means the world to me, because one of my computers has 8 fans in total, and it gets very loud. Although SpeedFan cannot make that PC quiet (it can only control fans that are plugged into fan headers on the motherboard) it has definitely helped it. But my other computer has watercooling and only 4 fans total (2 on radiator, one on the chipset NB, and a 120mm in the power supply) and it is completely silent when I am not gaming or editing video. So give it a try, and if your motherboard is capable of controlling the fans, you will not be disappointed.

[blizey]

Your expertise is way above mine when it comes to computers. I'm just amazed that you have 8 fans! What are you doing...cooling the room?

Now, you are using radiators w/cool water, I would like to see how that set up works. Interesting stuff.

[curtybob]

I know 8 fans sounds like alot, but I was overclocking that poor CPU to it's death limits, and had to keep it cool. I had a great heatsink/fan on the CPU (fan #1), then I had 2 in the back of the case (#2 and #3), 2 in the front (#4 &5), 1 in the window on the side panel (#6), a big one (120mm) in the very top (#7) and counting the one in the power supply, that was #8. But like I said, that poor little 2.2 GHz P4 wound up running at the virge of 3 GHz (2.93 GHz to be exact) and it stayed reasonably cool... all considered. I think it used to run at 120 F at idle, and didn't get above 155 F if I was playing a game or something. Now I have a 2.53 GHz P4 in the same PC, cuz I burned the old one up. But, I left all the fans in there thinking I might give it a whirl to see how far it will go... just not yet. The kids won't let me on "their" PC long enough to fool with it.
But as for water cooling, it is great. They even have some fairly decent kits for anyone who wants to try it, but don't want to build a water cooler yourself. The biggest thing to look out for is how big the hoses are in the kit. Alot of them try getting by with 1/4" inside diameter tubing, but that is just too darn small to get any real benefit out of it.

[conceptx]

Brilliant advice and thanks for the post man... am gonna try this since am changing my sleeping arrangement to have my head closer to my cpu [I love it that much].

[Flyfsh]

I have 8 fans on my puter too. But mine is for warming my feet not cooling the room.

:-0 :-0 ;-)

[blizey]

Originally posted by Flyfsh
I have 8 fans on my puter too. But mine is for warming my feet not cooling the room.

:-0 :-0 ;-)

I don't know whether to believe that or not??? BTW, You have to put a space between your emoticons, for them to show.