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Am I safe to use Q-fan?
I've just built a new system with an Asus board, and I want to try q-
fan, but want to be sure that it's safe. I'm using the stock AMD cooler at the moment, so I don't know what the fan specs are. If the voltage goes below the startup voltage will the fan just stop? Or can that cause damage to the fan header or motherboard? If it did stop, would it be reasonable to run my CPU passively until the temperature increased? The CPU is a 45W one, which undervolts and underclocks at idle giving a much lower power consumption. My power supply draws just 20W at idle including the hard disk etc. My CPU temperatures are generally being reported as about 10C at idle. That is MUCH lower than room temperature, so that's got to be wrong hasn't it? However, I did try touching the heatsink after turning my machine off, and I wouldn't have known it had been on. |
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Am I safe to use Q-fan?
wrote in message ... I've just built a new system with an Asus board, and I want to try q- fan, but want to be sure that it's safe. I'm using the stock AMD cooler at the moment, so I don't know what the fan specs are. If the voltage goes below the startup voltage will the fan just stop? Or can that cause damage to the fan header or motherboard? If it did stop, would it be reasonable to run my CPU passively until the temperature increased? The CPU is a 45W one, which undervolts and underclocks at idle giving a much lower power consumption. My power supply draws just 20W at idle including the hard disk etc. My CPU temperatures are generally being reported as about 10C at idle. That is MUCH lower than room temperature, so that's got to be wrong hasn't it? However, I did try touching the heatsink after turning my machine off, and I wouldn't have known it had been on. Email Asus and ask them if the 10's of thousands of mobo with qfan are at risk ;-) |
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If the cpu was getting to hot, the computer would warn you.
.. . . and yes, 10c for the cpu temp is way too low. --g |
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Am I safe to use Q-fan?
My CPU temperatures are generally being reported as about 10C at
idle. That is MUCH lower than room temperature, so that's got to be wrong hasn't it? However, I did try touching the heatsink after turning my machine off, and I wouldn't have known it had been on. Play safe! Keep the fan running at max speed. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 7.04) Linux 2.6.24.3 ^ ^ 17:23:01 up 3:11 0 users load average: 0.02 0.05 0.08 ? ? (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...ub_addressesa/ |
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Am I safe to use Q-fan?
You might also take a look at SpeedFan.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php ====================== wrote in message ... I've just built a new system with an Asus board, and I want to try q- fan, but want to be sure that it's safe. I'm using the stock AMD cooler at the moment, so I don't know what the fan specs are. If the voltage goes below the startup voltage will the fan just stop? Or can that cause damage to the fan header or motherboard? If it did stop, would it be reasonable to run my CPU passively until the temperature increased? The CPU is a 45W one, which undervolts and underclocks at idle giving a much lower power consumption. My power supply draws just 20W at idle including the hard disk etc. My CPU temperatures are generally being reported as about 10C at idle. That is MUCH lower than room temperature, so that's got to be wrong hasn't it? However, I did try touching the heatsink after turning my machine off, and I wouldn't have known it had been on. |
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