Moving from manual fan controller to Auto...pls help.

TommyTanker

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Hi All,

Thanks for all your help in selecting the parts for my rig which I have been using for the last 2 weeks.

I had the rig built for me because I chickened out and got too scared of destroying valuable parts.

I have 3 fans cooling a Fractal R4 case (beautiful), 2 in front and 1 exhaust. I currently control the fan speed manually from the front panel which has a 3 speed switch.

Its getting a little tedious to change fan speeds manually when i switch between gaming and browsing the net. So, my question is how do I use BIOS or the motherboard to auto control the fan speeds? Do I hit delete when the PC boots and go into BIOS??

I have an ASUS Z87-A motherboard, I believe it comes with Fan Xpert but I need to check the CD, I need to install that right? But do I have to get into the case to re-wire the fan power cables??? I have read posts on forums and they are talking about 3 and 4 pin power connectors - a bit confusing.

Please help if you can....!!
 

TommyTanker

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Thanks Ihog
And here comes the noob question. Is Xpert on the CD that the Mobo came with? Do I just run it in Windows?
I have looked at the mobo map configuration, there are exactly 3 slots for case fans. There is also an additional CPU slot called CPU (Optional) . should I avoid using that one...?