Hi,
About two weeks ago, I upgraded my socket 939 motherboard to the ASRock N68-Vs3 FX and I'm having some issues with the fan which throttles up well over 6000 RPM.
Initially, I used the stock HS/Fan that I used on my socket 939 board. It worked fine on the previous board, but on the new board it would throttle up to over 6,000 RPM as soon as I pushed the power button which was normal but it usually throttled down as soon as the bios would post; not so with the new motherboard.
When I powered on my computer, the fan would continuously roar at +6000 RPM to no end. It was quite unbearable. I noticed that there is an option in the motherboard for fan control but there was a caption that read that only fans with 4 pins could be optimized via the settings.
I didn't have have a 4pin fan at the time, so I tried another one that was also 3pin and at least it didn't throttle at full blast 100% of the time, but It would gradually throttle up over time until it eventually almost as loud as my previous HS/Fan.
I checked the cpu temp in the bios and I was shocked to see that the temp was at 75° C! I figured the problem might lie with the fact that I didn't use new thermal paste or because I wasn't using the recommended 4pined HS/fan, so I purchased a cheap new stock 4pin AMD HS/fan on ebay along with generic thermal paste.
I received the HS/Fan and it turns out the thermal compound was pre-applied to the base of the heatsink, so I didn't bother using the thermal compound that I bought. When I installed the HS/Fan I went into the bios and enabled fan control which targets 50°C and checked the HW monitor section and to my dismay the cpu fan behaves much like the last albeit the cpu temperature doesn't get quite as high as before. Last I checked the temperature stood steady at about 63° C.
It's also worth noting that AMD cool n' quiet is enabled and I'm currently using the Balanced power settings in Windows 7 yet even still the fan is roaring away at 6,000+ RPM.
Any help would be appreciated.
About two weeks ago, I upgraded my socket 939 motherboard to the ASRock N68-Vs3 FX and I'm having some issues with the fan which throttles up well over 6000 RPM.
Initially, I used the stock HS/Fan that I used on my socket 939 board. It worked fine on the previous board, but on the new board it would throttle up to over 6,000 RPM as soon as I pushed the power button which was normal but it usually throttled down as soon as the bios would post; not so with the new motherboard.
When I powered on my computer, the fan would continuously roar at +6000 RPM to no end. It was quite unbearable. I noticed that there is an option in the motherboard for fan control but there was a caption that read that only fans with 4 pins could be optimized via the settings.
I didn't have have a 4pin fan at the time, so I tried another one that was also 3pin and at least it didn't throttle at full blast 100% of the time, but It would gradually throttle up over time until it eventually almost as loud as my previous HS/Fan.
I checked the cpu temp in the bios and I was shocked to see that the temp was at 75° C! I figured the problem might lie with the fact that I didn't use new thermal paste or because I wasn't using the recommended 4pined HS/fan, so I purchased a cheap new stock 4pin AMD HS/fan on ebay along with generic thermal paste.
I received the HS/Fan and it turns out the thermal compound was pre-applied to the base of the heatsink, so I didn't bother using the thermal compound that I bought. When I installed the HS/Fan I went into the bios and enabled fan control which targets 50°C and checked the HW monitor section and to my dismay the cpu fan behaves much like the last albeit the cpu temperature doesn't get quite as high as before. Last I checked the temperature stood steady at about 63° C.
It's also worth noting that AMD cool n' quiet is enabled and I'm currently using the Balanced power settings in Windows 7 yet even still the fan is roaring away at 6,000+ RPM.
Any help would be appreciated.