[SOLVED] what setting for cpu fan?

[froggy8]

hi guys,

was wondering what settings you guys use on your cpu fan? on mine its at full and wondering if that is overkill? my cpu has been at around 30 on idle.

many thanks

 

[Newtonius]

30c is plenty cool for a CPU, if anything most CPU's hover between 35-50 at idle. What CPU do you have? You can drop it down to 70% at idle and create a fan curve to rise to 100 the closer it gets to max temp.

 

[froggy8]

30c is plenty cool for a CPU, if anything most CPU's hover between 35-50 at idle. What CPU do you have? You can drop it down to 70% at idle and create a fan curve to rise to 100 the closer it gets to max temp.

i have the ntel i5 4570S 2.90GHz
i put it on max becuase im not sure how to do curve settings.

 

[Newtonius]

i have the ntel i5 4570S 2.90GHz
i put it on max becuase im not sure how to do curve settings.

Fan curve settings are simple, normally the Y-axis (vertical line) represents the % of fan RPM and the X-axis (horizontal line) represents the temperature of the CPU. Simply drag or manually set the curve so the fan percentage has a base speed of whatever you want (50-70% is fine for idle) and then set markers for temps that you know you want the fan to reach higher RPM. It's hard to explain without an example, something like this might help:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgysU-aEBdQ


If you don't have a software application to control your fan on windows you can check to see if your motherboard's BIOS provides a feature to control the CPU fan curve.

 

[froggy8]

Fan curve settings are simple, normally the Y-axis (vertical line) represents the % of fan RPM and the X-axis (horizontal line) represents the temperature of the CPU. Simply drag or manually set the curve so the fan percentage has a base speed of whatever you want (50-70% is fine for idle) and then set markers for temps that you know you want the fan to reach higher RPM. It's hard to explain without an example, something like this might help:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgysU-aEBdQ


If you don't have a software application to control your fan on windows you can check to see if your motherboard's BIOS provides a feature to control the CPU fan curve.

yeah on the bios there is a button called customize and it has the fan curve in there.

 

[Newtonius]

yeah on the bios there is a button called customize and it has the fan curve in there.

Give it a try, though if you don't mind leaving your CPU fan at 100% then so be it. Fans usually have a very long lifespan even at 100% 24/7 RPM. The only issue is noise, so if you don't mind the noise then there's no need to change the curve. But if you prefer a quieter experience then I recommend fiddling with the fan curve. You can't go wrong and mess anything up, you know..... unless you set the fan to 0%....

 

[froggy8]

many thanks for your help