Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012, 19:55:30 schrieb James: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > are you going to blow the air in or out? > > Out the rear. So the 2 fans sandwich the > radiator and aim outward? > > Also, the cpu/cooler backing supplied by Gigabyte > fits well with the top bracket supplied by > the cooler kit, so I'm using that in lieu > of the cheap plastic back supplied with > the cooler (OK?) >
don't know - my cooler had a steel backplate and some screw-in mechanism... (not a boxed water cooler). > > hint: have the pump always run at full power but use fancontrol > > to control the > > fans - a lot of these pumps become pretty loud when they slow down. > > > > Also, set fancontrol to start the fan at something like 40°C with 65°C max > > - and most of the time the fans won't even spin, reducing the noise even > > more. 40, 60, 70°C won't hurt your CPU at all. > > The mobo has (4) fan terminals :(1) 3 wire (sysfan2) > (3) four wire sysfan1, CPUfan, pwrfan. > This is a dual bios system. so connect the pump to the 3 wire, the others to the four pwm connectors. > > Do both fans that sandwich the radiator run > at the same setting? The kit came with a "Y" so both can connected to > the same 4 pin (Y) connector. The chassis fan has a 3 pin > connector, but the slots do fit in the (Y) harness > correctly. The (Y) is wired for all 4 pins. So > will there be a separate BIOS setting (control) for the rear > fan, different than the fan to the inside of the > radiator? If so, what settings do I set each fan to? > really, get pwm (for pin) fans and connect them to the four pin connectors. > > It seems I have plenty of fan power/control terminals, > but the mobo install book gives no guidance as to which, where.... > The chassis has a large fan (sysfan1 ?) for the drives, as well as the rear > chassis fan(sysfan2 ?). > doesn't matter at all. Because you won't use the bios to drive the dans. > > Once I get Gentoo installed, what's the best software to monitor > this cooler rig and set alarms? Auto shutoff if it overheats? > (I run the system when I'm not around quite a bit)... > I'd really like to know if one fan fails the other one is > still working so guidance is appreciated, or just some > discussion on how all of this should work. > I'm presuming all of this is in the BIOS? sensors, pwmconfig, fancontrol. No need to get the bios involved (except maybe shutdown at 95°C)
