asus sabertooth x79 - irritating thermal armor cover fan, can i remove it? (really small fan next to the input holes)

[piotrek255]

Hi

The fan is making very irritating noise becouse it spins so fast, how can i make it spin less (i tried in bios, nothing happened) or can i just remove it?

its the TUF THERMAL ARMOR FAN AT THE BOTTOM LEFT

 

[Branden]

the fan is there for a reason, it cools a small heatsink under it.
but i find other pictures of that mobo without the fan installed so it might be ok to remove it, do so at your own risk.

it does looks like a typical 40mm/3-pin fan, if so you might be able to replace it with a quieter fan instead.

 

[ingtar33]

if you're going to pull the fans out you'll need to remove the thermal armor. they're there to facilitate airflow over hot parts. if you take them out you'll be killing the airflow over those parts.

 

[piotrek255]

i managed to get the fan running on 40% power with the thermal radar application. the problem is that my motherboard temperature jumped from 45 to stable 50C.

Is it safe? how high can this motherboard temperature be?

 

[ingtar33]

i'm pretty sure you can have the nb and vrm running at 50c... you don't want them over 80 for sure... but 50 should be ok.

 

[welliwas]

i have mine running with no issues without it, it states that it is optional, although mine is only off becuase asus lost it when it had to be repaired