Fan control options
Two boards for the same price but with different approach. After reviewing the key elements of their layouts and examining fan control options, you can look forward to a large portion of temperature and consumption comparisons. Let’s find out which one of these AMD Ryzen boards fulfills your expectations better.
Fan control options
Using the external panel makes little sense because these boards can do the job pretty efficiently.
Both Asus and Gigabyte have user-friendly and functional interfaces for fan speed control. Either in the BIOS (Q-Fan or Smart Fan 5 from Gigabyte), or through the operating system. Asus Fan Xpert 4, editing and monitoring in Gigabyte SIV (System Information Viewer) can be a challenge even for developers of third-party applications. Remember, for example, SpeedFan.
It is not necessary to describe them in detail because the most distinctive difference is design of interface. There are several preset modes, from “silent” to “full speed”. Although you should not take “silent“ very seriously, especially with Gigabyte. There is an aggressive transition from 50 to 100% speed between 50 – 65 ° C. However, each channel/connector is manually adjustable so you can comfortably create your own curve.
One profile can be applied to all connected fans, but you can also set each separately – CPU cooler fan, system fans or liquid cooler pump (constant 12 V is usually optimal).
The reference point for PWM to respond can be any of sensors on the motherboard (for example, depending on the VRM temperature or chipset temperature), even the external ones, only GPU lives its own life. But for the needs of the graphics card cooling, the board can react according to the PCIe ×16 temperature.
Alternatively, the regulation can be switched from the pulse mudulation to the traditional one (linear). Although in this mode it is not always possible to reach the lower limit of RPM, which would be available with PWM. Alerts can be set accordingly to the selected boundary temperature or fan failure detection which is forced for CPU fan in default (with Asus), so as prevention you cannot even get to the OS through POST.
- Contents
- Parameters and details
- Fan control options
- Test procedures
- Reports from internal sensors (chipset, VRM, ...)
- Power supply circuit heating – stock + same OC
- Gallery of thermal images
- Consumption – stock + same OC
- Conclusion
