Been tinkering with my new Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH for a few days now and I have quite a few regrets as this is my first Gigabyte board.
I'm on the F5 "BIOS" version.
- no fine grain LLC control
- no adaptive Vcore (I thought Skylake was supposed to have this??)
- attempting to load UEFI profiles freeze the system after some OC failures
- multiple UEFI profiles sometimes get wiped after OC failure
- XMP profile throws overclock failed error (mentioned here)
- only 6 SATA ports on a $200 board (my oversight here)
and finally the issue in the title...
There's no way to link fan headers to different input temperatures. The ITE IT8628E fan controller chip is also not supported under SpeedFan (bugtrack) so exhaust fans using Sys_fan headers can't match speeds to CPU tower cooler fans.
When my two CPU tower cooler fans ramp up to 1600rpm under load, my exhaust fan continues to crawl at 600rpm because the input signals are different. Short of pinning the exhaust fan at 1600rpm, there's no way around proper heat removal.
What have you other Gigabyte board users with 2-fan tower coolers been doing?
I'm on the F5 "BIOS" version.
- no fine grain LLC control
- no adaptive Vcore (I thought Skylake was supposed to have this??)
- attempting to load UEFI profiles freeze the system after some OC failures
- multiple UEFI profiles sometimes get wiped after OC failure
- XMP profile throws overclock failed error (mentioned here)
- only 6 SATA ports on a $200 board (my oversight here)
and finally the issue in the title...
There's no way to link fan headers to different input temperatures. The ITE IT8628E fan controller chip is also not supported under SpeedFan (bugtrack) so exhaust fans using Sys_fan headers can't match speeds to CPU tower cooler fans.
When my two CPU tower cooler fans ramp up to 1600rpm under load, my exhaust fan continues to crawl at 600rpm because the input signals are different. Short of pinning the exhaust fan at 1600rpm, there's no way around proper heat removal.
What have you other Gigabyte board users with 2-fan tower coolers been doing?
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