Hey guys,
So I'm new to the PC building game. I just assembled my first build this week, and it's all up and running with windows installed, so so far, so good!
HOWEVER, I can not for the life of me get my head around the the fans, and I'm finding very little reading materials pertaining to my situation.
So I have a Phanteks P600s case, a MSI Z490 Unify Mobo with a NZXT Kraken x73 cooler installed in the top.
I have an intel i9 10900k and I really wanna give it the best setup to ensure I get the best performance out of it.
(I probably won't manually overclock but to my understanding, the lower the temps, the better the turbo will perform?)
Now the Phanteks case has a fan controller preinstalled, with 3 DC connections on the left and 5 PWM connections on the right. It's powered by a SATA cable, and theres a cable labelled PC_IN, that I assume is what goes into one of the fan headers on the motherboard (the manual doesn't even refer to it, oddly). The white PWM connection furthest right on the controller apparently carries the RPM signal to the motherboard (which I don't understand the significance of, cause I'm a newbie).
SO! The case came with the rear fan plugged into the white connector, but I decided since its a 3 pin DC fan, I'll plug it into the left with the other 2 case fans. I then plugged my Kraken cooler fans into 3 of the PWM slots. Then I plugged the controller into the CPU_FAN header on my mobo.
(The CPU_Fan header on the Unify mobo is the only header that carries the PWM signal, bar the pump header but well...my pump is in there)
Now all my fans are turning, so good. However, in BIOS all I can see is one fan reading, coming from CPU. After installing windows I hoped some drivers would turn up that would allow me to see the status of all my fans, but nada. I installed SpeedFan hoping it would see something, but it basically can't identify any fans. Is this normal?
Basically it's disconcerting me that I can't seem to monitor or control any of my fans presently. I think currently ALL my fans respond to just the temp of the CPU, which is nice cause the case stays quiet when there's no heavy loads, but it's actually hard to tell if my case fan speeds are actually speeding up/slowing down, cause I can't see any readings!
I guess all I'm asking is... is this a stupid setup? Is there a better way to connect them?
I was considering just plugging only my cooler fans into the cpu_fan header using the splitter provided by NZXT, but then where do I plug in the case fan controller? FAN_1? Does it matter? Ideally I'd like to be able to see what all my fans are doing, so I'm not sure if that will still just show up all my fans as 1 unit. Plus would that make my case fans run at full speed constantly?
Sorry for the myriad of questions, I'm a total newbie and just want a better understanding of how these things should work!
Thanks in advance to any responses.
So I'm new to the PC building game. I just assembled my first build this week, and it's all up and running with windows installed, so so far, so good!
HOWEVER, I can not for the life of me get my head around the the fans, and I'm finding very little reading materials pertaining to my situation.
So I have a Phanteks P600s case, a MSI Z490 Unify Mobo with a NZXT Kraken x73 cooler installed in the top.
I have an intel i9 10900k and I really wanna give it the best setup to ensure I get the best performance out of it.
(I probably won't manually overclock but to my understanding, the lower the temps, the better the turbo will perform?)
Now the Phanteks case has a fan controller preinstalled, with 3 DC connections on the left and 5 PWM connections on the right. It's powered by a SATA cable, and theres a cable labelled PC_IN, that I assume is what goes into one of the fan headers on the motherboard (the manual doesn't even refer to it, oddly). The white PWM connection furthest right on the controller apparently carries the RPM signal to the motherboard (which I don't understand the significance of, cause I'm a newbie).
SO! The case came with the rear fan plugged into the white connector, but I decided since its a 3 pin DC fan, I'll plug it into the left with the other 2 case fans. I then plugged my Kraken cooler fans into 3 of the PWM slots. Then I plugged the controller into the CPU_FAN header on my mobo.
(The CPU_Fan header on the Unify mobo is the only header that carries the PWM signal, bar the pump header but well...my pump is in there)
Now all my fans are turning, so good. However, in BIOS all I can see is one fan reading, coming from CPU. After installing windows I hoped some drivers would turn up that would allow me to see the status of all my fans, but nada. I installed SpeedFan hoping it would see something, but it basically can't identify any fans. Is this normal?
Basically it's disconcerting me that I can't seem to monitor or control any of my fans presently. I think currently ALL my fans respond to just the temp of the CPU, which is nice cause the case stays quiet when there's no heavy loads, but it's actually hard to tell if my case fan speeds are actually speeding up/slowing down, cause I can't see any readings!
I guess all I'm asking is... is this a stupid setup? Is there a better way to connect them?
I was considering just plugging only my cooler fans into the cpu_fan header using the splitter provided by NZXT, but then where do I plug in the case fan controller? FAN_1? Does it matter? Ideally I'd like to be able to see what all my fans are doing, so I'm not sure if that will still just show up all my fans as 1 unit. Plus would that make my case fans run at full speed constantly?
Sorry for the myriad of questions, I'm a total newbie and just want a better understanding of how these things should work!
Thanks in advance to any responses.