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?) > 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. 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? 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 ?). 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? James
