Help with changing fan speeds

[grmackintosh]

Hi guys,


In my PC I want my case fans to run a bit faster, or just in general have some sort of control over my case fans. My problem is I'm not sure which fan is which. All I see in SpeedFan is Fan 1-5, and these don't correspond to the fan numbers on the motherboard. I would change one of these to 0%, just for seeing which one stops, therefore indicating which fan number that is. I don't do this because I am too worried about shutting off my CPU fan or a GPU fan, and possibly causing some damage. Can someone help me as to find which number corresponds to which case fan, is having my CPU fan turned off for a minute cause some damage?, and how do I quickly revert my settings to defaults when using SpeedFan.

Note: One fan is constantly running at about 450rpm whereas the other one is running at about 1100rpm. Does this indicate anything, as I have one 120mm exhaust fan, and one 240mm intake fan?
Thanks for you help.

 

[MarkW]

You failed to tell us what brand of motherboard you have. So how are we supposed to know what your options are? I highly prefer to use motherboard setting when they exist over something like speedfan.

 

[grmackintosh]

You failed to tell us what brand of motherboard you have. So how are we supposed to know what your options are? I highly prefer to use motherboard setting when they exist over something like speedfan.

Sorry about that,

Its a Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H .

 

[MarkW]

They have a lot of utilities up on their web site, but none appear to be capable of monitoring fan speeds.

I have speedfan 4.49 on my system, but I only use it to check temps every now and then. I do see right on the main panel:

Sys Fan: 0 RPM
CPU Fan: 1439 RPM
Aux Fan: 0 RPM
Aux1 Fan: 0 RPM
Aux2 Fan: 936 RPM

Down below those, I see Sys, CPU and Aux entries each with 65% and up/down clickers.

So I am not sure why you are not seeing the same thing.

 

[grmackintosh]

They have a lot of utilities up on their web site, but none appear to be capable of monitoring fan speeds.

I have speedfan 4.49 on my system, but I only use it to check temps every now and then. I do see right on the main panel:

Sys Fan: 0 RPM
CPU Fan: 1439 RPM
Aux Fan: 0 RPM
Aux1 Fan: 0 RPM
Aux2 Fan: 936 RPM

Down below those, I see Sys, CPU and Aux entries each with 65% and up/down clickers.

So I am not sure why you are not seeing the same thing.

Screenshot of what I see when I open speedfan: http://i.imgur.com/c7jUnWS.png

Do the different speeds that they are running at indicate anything?
I have one 240mm intake and a 120mm exhaust, do the different RPM numbers help me indentify which is which?

Thanks for your help

 

[MarkW]

4.49 vs 4.51... Looks like the top fan in yours is the CPU, and my guess is that Fan 3 is aux1.

Your version has the entries for all 5 fans below the other numbers, mine only has 3 of the 5.

As for how useful that will be, I can't answer that. Never used SpeedFan for that.