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Re: Control CPU fan's speed



Nate Amsden <aphro@portal.aphroland.org> writes:

> > So I got this new motherboard (ASUS CUSL2-C), and I hear that one of
> > the Windows utilities that come with it can control CPU fan's speed.
> > I thought that it would be very nice (I have no way of checking),
> > since the native Intel's fan on my PIII wants to be a jet-plane
> > turbine.
> 
> for good reason! i got 12 fans in my box and a MASSIVE cpu fan(i think
> it pulls 25cfm or something) and my p3-800 still runs at 50C(AFAIK
> when its idle, as i can't query the cpu from linux yet lm_sensors
> doesn't support the chip..so 50C is from the bios)

Hmm... In my case the CPU is barely even warm.  It's a PIII-667 (not
overclocked).  My questions still stands, though: are there any
utilities for interacting with BIOS for this purpose, anyone?
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Arcady Genkin
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