I believe my issue is quite odd. For starters, I have a Asrock 960GM / U3S3 FX Motherboard and an AMD FX 6300 w/ Stock cooler. My CPU fan is controlled via PWM i believe. Leaving the fan control to the mobo / bios was a disaster, it would kick up to max (~5000 rpm) before my cores even hit 45c. Let me say, this fan sounds like a jet turbine at max speed. (shudders). Needless to say I wanted control of the fan speeds so I set my BIOS fan speed to "full on" (the only other option was to set a custom temperature threshold). After doing this, I am now able to control my fan with my speedfan profile i set up.
However, I've noticed that my "max" or rather when I set my fan in speedfan to 100%, it runs at ~3800 rpm. Interestingly, when I launch a cpu intensive game / program my fans will soon kick up even higher than 3800 rpm. After a bit, while still on the "100%" setting in speedfan, my fan starts running at the ~5000 rpm. (my fan speeds increase regardless of the actual percentage but im using that for reference....example - Non gaming, fan is at 2500 rpm when 60%, but at that same percent when gaming, it will be say 4500 rpm.) I know its confusing me.
I've tried messing with speedfans PWM control and its currently set to manual. I honestly am out of ideas as to how my fans are being boosted in such a way. Is it possible my BIOS is still interfering? Thoughts? thanks!
However, I've noticed that my "max" or rather when I set my fan in speedfan to 100%, it runs at ~3800 rpm. Interestingly, when I launch a cpu intensive game / program my fans will soon kick up even higher than 3800 rpm. After a bit, while still on the "100%" setting in speedfan, my fan starts running at the ~5000 rpm. (my fan speeds increase regardless of the actual percentage but im using that for reference....example - Non gaming, fan is at 2500 rpm when 60%, but at that same percent when gaming, it will be say 4500 rpm.) I know its confusing me.
I've tried messing with speedfans PWM control and its currently set to manual. I honestly am out of ideas as to how my fans are being boosted in such a way. Is it possible my BIOS is still interfering? Thoughts? thanks!