Author: parsec
Subject: Asrock Extreme 6 Board Fan Speeds
Posted: 08 May 2016 at 12:08pm
Your CPU temperatures are surprisingly good, given you are using the Intel stock CPU cooler, and have a high room temperature, 35C+.
You don't need liquid cooling unless you plan on over clocking your CPU and do a lot of CPU intensive tasks. There are many nice air only CPU coolers that can cool you CPU better than the Intel stock CPU cooler.
I have an ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ board, whose UEFI fan speed control is the same as your board.
Instead of using the preset fan speed profiles, you also have the ability to create custom fan speed profiles for each fan, and change their speed based on the CPU or mother board temperature. The custom fan speed profiles can be better is fan noise bothers you, or if a preset profile does not perform exactly as you want it to.
Cooling a PC's components is not simply a matter of following a set of instructions. Every PC is different, the PC case, the parts you use, and the fans you have or do not have in the possible mounting locations are all variables that determine what works best for cooling the PC. The only person that can tell you what works well is someone that has exactly the same PC as you do, from the PC case to every last part in the PC, mounted in the same locations.
The ONLY way to determine what works the best is to experiment. Also, what you consider "the best" is, may not be what I think it is. For example, I don't like fan noise, but that may not bother you. You may need to compromise the level of fan noise for the high room temperatures you have.
The only temperature reading in your last post that is not good is that of your video card, at least in my opinion. Your card might normally have an idle temperature of 52C, but that seems high to me. But if it is only reaching 75C at 96% load, and does not get much hotter than that with a high load for a long time, then that is good. What is the speed of the video card fans at idle, etc?
Your PC case does not have a way to mount a side fan to provide cooler air to the video card, so you will need to depend on the front fans. One problem is their is only one exhaust fan (I assume is it exhaust, pushing air out of the PC case), that being the top rear SP140. Warm air from the video card is blowing into the PC case, and is warming the air used to cool the CPU.
One thing you can try is removing all the covers for PCI cards from the PC case. That will allow air to flow more easily from the front (intake), over the video card, and out of the opening around the video card that are now blocked with the PCI slot covers.
Currently, you have more air being pushed into the case (three intake fans) than you are able to take out of the case, with the one 140mm exhaust fan. That pressure will also limit the amount of air that can be pushed into the case. Removing the PCI slot covers will help relieve that pressure, and hopefully provide better air flow to the video card, etc.
Your SSD is rather hot too, is that a normal SATA SSD or an M.2 drive?
It looks like all your fans are running at or close to their highest speed, including the CPU cooler fan. Given that, all you can do try what I suggested. You could try using the extra SP140 you are not using as an exhaust fan, mounted on the top of the case.
Subject: Asrock Extreme 6 Board Fan Speeds
Posted: 08 May 2016 at 12:08pm
Your CPU temperatures are surprisingly good, given you are using the Intel stock CPU cooler, and have a high room temperature, 35C+.
You don't need liquid cooling unless you plan on over clocking your CPU and do a lot of CPU intensive tasks. There are many nice air only CPU coolers that can cool you CPU better than the Intel stock CPU cooler.
I have an ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ board, whose UEFI fan speed control is the same as your board.
Instead of using the preset fan speed profiles, you also have the ability to create custom fan speed profiles for each fan, and change their speed based on the CPU or mother board temperature. The custom fan speed profiles can be better is fan noise bothers you, or if a preset profile does not perform exactly as you want it to.
Cooling a PC's components is not simply a matter of following a set of instructions. Every PC is different, the PC case, the parts you use, and the fans you have or do not have in the possible mounting locations are all variables that determine what works best for cooling the PC. The only person that can tell you what works well is someone that has exactly the same PC as you do, from the PC case to every last part in the PC, mounted in the same locations.
The ONLY way to determine what works the best is to experiment. Also, what you consider "the best" is, may not be what I think it is. For example, I don't like fan noise, but that may not bother you. You may need to compromise the level of fan noise for the high room temperatures you have.
The only temperature reading in your last post that is not good is that of your video card, at least in my opinion. Your card might normally have an idle temperature of 52C, but that seems high to me. But if it is only reaching 75C at 96% load, and does not get much hotter than that with a high load for a long time, then that is good. What is the speed of the video card fans at idle, etc?
Your PC case does not have a way to mount a side fan to provide cooler air to the video card, so you will need to depend on the front fans. One problem is their is only one exhaust fan (I assume is it exhaust, pushing air out of the PC case), that being the top rear SP140. Warm air from the video card is blowing into the PC case, and is warming the air used to cool the CPU.
One thing you can try is removing all the covers for PCI cards from the PC case. That will allow air to flow more easily from the front (intake), over the video card, and out of the opening around the video card that are now blocked with the PCI slot covers.
Currently, you have more air being pushed into the case (three intake fans) than you are able to take out of the case, with the one 140mm exhaust fan. That pressure will also limit the amount of air that can be pushed into the case. Removing the PCI slot covers will help relieve that pressure, and hopefully provide better air flow to the video card, etc.
Your SSD is rather hot too, is that a normal SATA SSD or an M.2 drive?
It looks like all your fans are running at or close to their highest speed, including the CPU cooler fan. Given that, all you can do try what I suggested. You could try using the extra SP140 you are not using as an exhaust fan, mounted on the top of the case.