E6600 OEM Cooling Fan

[Carlosinfl]

I just purchased and built a nice system in my eyes. I have everything assembled and I notice that the OEM Intel CPU cooling fan on my CPU throttles off for like 2 seconds and then starts going again. It does it every few minutes but stops the cooling fan enough until the fan blades are at a complete stop and then starts up again fine and normal. No noise and I made sure the pin cable to the motherboard looks good. I did not forget the 4 pin power connector as well as the 24 pin motherboard power connector. I have never seen this before however I have always used AMD. This is my 1st Intel system so I don't know what to make of this.

I would think this is not good and that the CPU cooling fan should remain 100% at all times but is this a known issue or do you recommend I check anything? This machine is not overclocked or anything of that nature.

Here at the specs:

- Intel e6600 w/ OEM Intel cooling fan
- Antec P182 Case
- Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
- G.Skill DDR2 RAM 2x1GB
- eVGA nVidia 8800GTS
- Coolmax AP-650X Power Supply
- 4 x Seagate 160GB S-ATA drives
- 2 x LiteOn DVD Burners

I have not checked my temps on this machine running Windows XP SP2.

Any advice?

 

[movax]

If the CPU fan control is on "Auto" in the BIOS, you have nothing to worry about. C2Ds boot so cool it'll take 15 seconds or so for the fan to even start spinning. There should be an option in BIOS to turn off fan control entirely, which will result in a constant 100% speed drone.

Load your CPU and observe noise; it should speed up/slow down when necessary.

 

[Carlosinfl]

Ah - perhaps that is correct. I need to check the BIOS and see.

I just downloaded Speedfan to see how the machine is running. It's not bad considering my house temp is like 80 F right now. It's very hot...