Asus A8N SLI Deluxe fan control question

[Wish]

Howdy,

This is my first post here, and I have a question.

My new computer will be arriving next week equipped with an Asus A8N
Sli Deluxe Motherboard. I am just getting back in the game, and am
unsure if that Motherboard has automatic fan control based on
temperatures.

If it does, Yahooo!; If it doesn't I am looking for a good automatic
fan control device or software such as SpeedFan, or a Silverstone
Eudemon, or a Lian-Li TR-3B.

Anyone have any experience with that MB, or know the answer?

Many thanks!


*wish*
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[The little lost angel]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:09:28 +0000 (UTC),

My new computer will be arriving next week equipped with an Asus A8N
Sli Deluxe Motherboard. I am just getting back in the game, and am
unsure if that Motherboard has automatic fan control based on
temperatures.

I think most AMD gamers simply disable the whole Cool N Quiet thing
which does the thermal control?

Alternatively, download the manual from Asus' site and see for
yourself.

 

[George Macdonald]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:09:28 +0000 (UTC),

Howdy,

This is my first post here, and I have a question.

My new computer will be arriving next week equipped with an Asus A8N
Sli Deluxe Motherboard. I am just getting back in the game, and am
unsure if that Motherboard has automatic fan control based on
temperatures.

I don't know that mbrd in particular but every other I've seen recently has
auto temp/fan control through BIOS settings and the correct AMD driver.
Just go to www.amd.com and get the latest driver - the default in WinXP
doesn't work right.

If it does, Yahooo!; If it doesn't I am looking for a good automatic
fan control device or software such as SpeedFan, or a Silverstone
Eudemon, or a Lian-Li TR-3B.

Anyone have any experience with that MB, or know the answer?

I use Speedfan with my MSI nForce3 mbrd and it works very well. There's
also a way to get it to run as a service, which I need to get going yet.

 

[George Macdonald]

I think most AMD gamers simply disable the whole Cool N Quiet thing
which does the thermal control?

You don't need to - just change the Power setting from "Minimal Power
Management" to "Home/office Desktop" in the Power Options control panel.

 

[The little lost angel]

You don't need to - just change the Power setting from "Minimal Power
Management" to "Home/office Desktop" in the Power Options control panel.

Does that override the BIOS setting? I was under the impression that
issue was CnQ dynamically changes CPU clock speed and voltages
according to demand, regardless of the normal power management
available in Windows.

But I personally never bothered with PM on my desktop so I could just
be blowing all smoke

 

[George Macdonald]

Does that override the BIOS setting? I was under the impression that
issue was CnQ dynamically changes CPU clock speed and voltages
according to demand, regardless of the normal power management
available in Windows.

The BIOS setting -- which I suspect just sets register in the CPU and
chipset -- *and* driver cooperate for CnQ; without the driver there's no
CnQ - the driver is controlled through Power Options control panel. I've
been running it for several months now - you should try it. In fact I'd
say running witout it is losing a fair part of the benefit of AMD64

 

[The little lost angel]

The BIOS setting -- which I suspect just sets register in the CPU and
chipset -- *and* driver cooperate for CnQ; without the driver there's no
CnQ - the driver is controlled through Power Options control panel. I've
been running it for several months now - you should try it. In fact I'd
say running witout it is losing a fair part of the benefit of AMD64

I'm not going to screw around with my main system My philosophy is
the less drivers/services running the better it is. Power Management
has never quite worked on the desktop for me nor do I see a need for
it.

For the quiet bit, I'll be more bothered if my system was silent. For
the cool bit, I run the system 24/7 doing certain tasks so the
benefits from CnQ won't be as great as the one I got for switching my
large CRT to a LCD

 

[George Macdonald]

I'm not going to screw around with my main system My philosophy is
the less drivers/services running the better it is. Power Management
has never quite worked on the desktop for me nor do I see a need for
it.

The driver is there whether you like it or not... by M$ and the AMD one has
updates for later CPUs and I tend to trust it more.