Inepitech Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Hi. Recently purchased a H60, but the fan seems to be stuck on 100% (2,000RPM). It's plugged into the four-pin CPU header on the motherboard. I've tried changing the speed in the BIOS and using SpeedFan to no avail. Besides that it seems pretty good. Is there anything I can do? I have a ticket open but it hasn't received a response yet. The ticket number is 6082702 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wytnyt Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 i would think you need to get some type of fan controller or contact your m/b support and inquire on how or what needs to be done,,not really sure what corsair would be expected to do... do you have another way to test the rpms as speedfan isnt that dependable or using another fan to test with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternDreaming Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 my 3 questions are 1- are they the 4 pin pwm fan? 2- can u test with another program besides speedfan? 3- if the answer to question 1 is yes, call your mobo manufacturer to ask them what the deal is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inepitech Posted August 16, 2013 Author Share Posted August 16, 2013 I plugged in another fan into the CPU header and I could control that so I don't think it's the motherboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Sascha Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Hmmm.. I just threw out the H60's stock fan and replaced it with the SP120 High Performance - makes a huge difference in noise. But I'm almost 100% certain that the stock one was indeed capable of running at lower than its max RPM. Even though the box says "RPM: 2000 +/-10%". I guess that means max RPM or RPM@12V - having a 120mm-fan run at 2000 rpm all the time is hardly what I'd call "quiet", and noise (or lack thereof) is one of Corsair's selling points for the H60. I have the fan on my desk right now, and it does have four leads and a 4-pin connector, so it should be PWM. I controlled it both via Q-Fan (BIOS-feature) and Asus Fan Xpert2 (SW-solution), and it was regulated down in both scenarios. If you have a second, decent 120mm fan lying around *and* a MB with a secondary CPU-fan-header ("CPU_OPT"), here's a quick and dirty solution you might want to try: Mount the other fan behind the radiator, then mount the Corsair-fan in front of it. Looking at it from the side it should be "case backside, other fan, radiator, Corsair stock-fan". My reasoning for this is that I think the outer fan should be the quieter one, since it's in direct contact with the cases's back wall and thus is much more audible and likeky to cause vibrations. Next, plug the Corsair fan into your second CPU fan-header, the other fan into the main header. I ran this interim solution until my SP120 finally arrived in the mail today, and the stock-fan's noise and RPM were much lower when it was plugged into my CPU_OPT header. If you don't have a second CPU_FAN header, you could still try plugging the Corsair fan into another fan header on the board and see if you can control it there. Might also be a good idea to update your BIOS to the latest, stable version. Not sure what your MB supports, but since it's an Asus, I'd try to use Fan Xpert as well (part of Asus AI Suite). That program can control even fans with three leads.. no idea how but it seems to work. S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Sascha Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Quick update: Ran into trouble with my 200mm top fan, so I replaced it with the H60 stock fan until I get a replacement. Fan is plugged into "FAN 01" header on the mainboard, with Asus Q-Fan set to "silent" on that header. The fan is doing 1150 - 1210rpm on this setting. S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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