IceRevenant

Hi, I ran into another weird gitch/problem.

At idle, my Q9550 CPU fan runs at around 2000rpm (reported from both the BIOS and Asus Probe II). I just bought an Arctic Cooler case fan and connected it to the CPU fan wire and then both connected it to the mobo's CPU Fan slot (4 pin). I also used the single yellow wire that has 3 pins and connected it to the Cha-Fan 3 pin slot in the mobo in order to use the Asus Q Fan feature in monitoring the case fan's speed.
Once everything's done, I loaded the BIOs and noticed the CPU fan speed was still 2000rpm and the new case fan was around 1400rpm.
Then when I got into Windows and opened Asus Probe II, the temperature reported for the CPU dropped to 1140pm while the new case fan went down to 400rpm. The CPU and mobo temperature on the Asus Probe II didn't change (it is still the same before and after I installed this new case fan).
So my question is, what happened to the fan speed as reported by Asus Probe II? Should I trust the readings there or the BIOS readings? I just hope it is reporting the right temperature otherwise it'll fry my new computer!



EDIT: Disregard my above question but I got a new question.

Sorry guys, I just found out it was because I enabled Q Fan control and I set it to standard. It's probably best to disable Q Fan manual control and let the computer decide how fast the fans should spin right?

ewells2420

Personally I hate all their software and dont use it at all. You dont really need it. Everything you need to be done can be done through the BIOS or windows.