Now generally when you talk about your temperature input sources, all of them are gonna be generally referenced from the CPU, meaning that every single header that you have on here responds to the CPU temperature. "One of the things that a lot of users overlook and don't necessarily under stand is that the fan controls respond to temperature input sources. As far as I can tell, finding the fan control functionality on specific products is next to impossible, but I hope someone will prove me wrong.
Some may or may not have more advanced capability with Windows-based software utilities from the manufacturer and/or 3rd-party utilities like SpeedFan.įinding which overclocking features and controls available on specific low-mid tier boards is hard enough. Sometimes the only automatic fan control is in response to CPU temperatures. You have no idea, even after trying to read the manuals, until you buy and test the thing. Sometimes some of the other headers have DC control, with occasionally PWM being available on some of the others (and sometimes not even if the headers have 4 pins). Great, but how about everyone else?įor every manufacturer in a long time, the CPU fan header support PWM and usually DC control too, with the rest being anyone's guess. I assume most Z170 boards retain this feature. I believe starting from Z97, most Asus boards (the ones labeled with Fan Xpert 3) support both DC and PWM control on every fan header. And yet again, a lot of these are not necessarily well documented, while others are evolutionary changes that aren't focuses of marketing.Ĭutting to the chase, does anybody have any idea which Z170 boards support which kinds of fan control on which fan headers in response to which temperature readings or other forms of input? With a new chipset and lineup of motherboards usually comes some new features up and down (or partially down) the product stack for the motherboard manufacturers in a vain attempt at differentiation in the modern era of chipsets and CPUs themselves providing the vast majority of functionality on boards.
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