ASUS Q-FAN? do you use it?

[illicitsc]

as stated in the title, do most of you guys with asus boards have it on or off?

 

[M_with_one_M]

Q-fan doesn't give enough control. To few options for fan speed at normal and when it gets hot the speed goes up to 100%.
Speedfan gives more control, but doesn't start up until windows starts, but I still used it.

Two Asus boards crapt out on me so I don't use Asus any more.

 

[Schepsel]

I have disabled Q fan. I'm using a Zalman Fan controller. (The front panel one with the blue leds) And it rocks!

 

[illicitsc]

does anyone notice a change in temperatures at all? cuz all i get is an unbearable whining when it's at full speed around 5000rpm

 

[dwave]

I don't use it myself because I don't like it. When I used it the temps on my CPU would rise from 32 idle to ~40 idle.

How old is your fan? Is it just a noisy fan, or do you have a bearing going out?

 

[sailer]

does anyone notice a change in temperatures at all? cuz all i get is an unbearable whining when it's at full speed around 5000rpm

I got no temperature change, extra noise, and figured why bother. Maybe it was a good idea, but badly executed.

 

[illicitsc]

My system is about 9 months old, and i had it running with the q-fan turned off for the past 7 months. i think i notice a 7 degree difference when it is turned on. So i've come to the conclusion that q-fan is not for overclockers on stock cooling.

 

[dwave]

Mine rose 8 degrees. You are right, I don't believe it is for overclockers.

 

[Sonic_Reducer]

i have assembled a few machines with it but on a few of them i had complaines from the costumers that the computer was to noisy, and after i turned it off it went normal , so i usually by default leave it off

 

[Tattysnuc]

On my A8V - SE motherboard, it worked a charm. But when I moved to the A8N-32, the temperatures suddenly got too high for me to comfortably use. That and it didn;t allow me to change the target temperature (what so ever!) that Q Fan kicked in at.

The board has been giving me some grief and I think it's faulty, so that's one for me to RMA.....

Shame. Just grabbed a DFI crossfire board on ebay for the poultry sum of £60 so looks like if and when I do get my board fixed, it'll be straight onto ebay!

No more asus for me. Great ideas, but they always seem floored.

Never did like their bios though......