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Need help on how to setup correctly fan speed

Nicolanapa

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I have just recently built my first PC but my parents are giving me problems about the fans loudness so I want to lower their speed without affecting much temperatures. The images I uploaded shows the fan configurations, they're a bit outdated since I u tried lowering a bit the general speed. In sys_fan1 there's 6 fans (5 P12 PWM, 1 stock 4000d airflow fan) connected to a fan hub and two CPU fans (Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ) in the cooler. I'm giving more informations if it can help. Have a 7800x3d and sapphire 7800 xt. The currently average temperature are about 30C but haven't monitored constantly the temperatures while gaming but I've seen the graphics card getting to 59 degrees in heavy load
 

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The fan speed is usually controlled by the CPU temperature, not the GPU. I have seen some motherboards that let you chose the source though.

You could probably remove some fans, just have more fans pushing air in than out of the chassis.

You can let the fans run at a low rpm for more degrees. Start ramping up at 40C instead of 20C for example. Then have a steeper ramp up. And there is no point setting them to 100% at 60C. You can put that at 90-95C or even never go higher than 80-90% fan speed. Temps will get worse, but monitor them and see if they are still within the acceptable range. Experiment some with different settings. Find out at what percentage the fans get annoying and try to stay below that, even at higher temperature
 
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Blasting 100% early on is not necessarily a wrong way to setup fans. It will bring a very minor performance boost. But if the main concern is noise...
I would test out "What is the highest level of that specific set of fans I can set without bothering me / the user?"
Say, it's 60%.
I would then limit the fan speed to 60% until the CPU is really overheating. On the 7800X3D, if I remember correctly it will be fine <90C.

Note that normally the fan speed settings in BIOS cannot do anything about GPU temperature.

For your graphics card, assuming you haven't done anything to bump up the fan speed, 59C is very good and there's nothing to worry about.
 
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Welcome to TP, this is the one of the right places to ask those sort of questions.
Best way usually to set fan speeds are via the Bios.
Are you confident enough to try editing it?.
Or you just wanna go the way windows programs let you deside stuff ?.
 
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Just do stress tests and monitor the temperatures, I would limit the max speed to 80% if they are too loud
 
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Use FanControl:

59C on GPU while gaming is nothing.

Based on your BIOS photos:
1st curve does nothing, SYS Temperature won't reach 60C, it will probably move in the range of 1-2C

2nd and 3rd curve should be replaced with 2nd curve only and both fans connected through Y splitter to the CPU Fan header. CPU OPT is pretty much dedicated to pumps for AIOs. If you have matching fans on the CPU cooler it would make sense to run them with matching speeds.

Meanwhile FanControl will let you setup triggers based on GPU temps, deltas, etc. I setup mine so that CPU fan runs at 70% up until 50C on the CPU then auto ramp to max of 100% at 65C (but that's with SilentWing fan on the DR4). Front and rear fans are set to 32%/70% if GPU is below 65C, when it crosses that point they go up to 50%/100% and once it cools to 40C they go back to original speeds.
 
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go into your bios. set the highest static fan speed that does not bother you. F10 and you're golden.
 
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average temperature are about 30C...graphics card getting to 59 degrees in heavy load
Those temps are fine. Maybe lower fan speed until temps are an issue? Sometimes many fans can work against each other creating turbulence. Getting the right number of fans in the right place at the right speed can be tricky. Populating every available fan mount and running full blast isn't the best plan.

I also vote for using the software called Fan Control:
One thing you can do is adjust curves in you OS while you are gaming so you can see how it sounds in real world use, then taking pictures of those fan curves and duplicating them in your BIOS. As Chomiq said, the another thing is to use Fan Control to link fans to your GPU's temp.
 
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