Recent content by ChrisW

I have the same motherboard. As spyder suggested this is related to video signal, happens for me when my monitor isn’t on when I turn the pc on, so check it’s not that causing it.

Increased the back exhaust fan to full power as well for good measure, just be a case of seeing how it plays now. To be honest the case fans I were looking at getting come in a twin pack anyway, so wouldn’t really need the fan, although I appreciate it’s more about making the point I feel I...

I’ve installed iCUE and it appears the default was Quiet, with the fans at 440rpm and the pump 1020rpm, changing it to Extreme for all they go up to 1000rpm and 2790rpm respectively. Obviously this is all while idle so will have to give it a go in some games and hope for a difference in the GPU...

Thanks again Scott. I’m currently working at the moment but will update with my findings once able to in next hour or so. Strange how on the bios it was showing 2000rpm, I assume this was inaccurate and potentially just displaying the maximum, not what it was running at?

Yeah as per the user guide for the cooler the pump is connected to a USB header, the pump itself is connected to SATA power, and each fan to a shrouded 4 pin connector on the pump.

I’ve taken off both the glass side panel and the metal one to get a better look. It’s either a case of the cabling hiding it too well or I’m blind but it’s very hard to discern exactly where the cables go. as previously mentioned though there’s only one other fan connected which as it’s the back...

I thought this as well so that’s initially why I looked inside, from what I can see there is a 3 pin? connector plugged into the CPU_FAN header which I believe would be the correct one. The only other fan is plugged into a chassis fan header so doesn’t seem they’ve got mixed up or anything.

Since the above I’ve been into the BIOS and the fan settings there also confirm the CPU fan is at 2000rpm, ran the optimisation and it has set a different fan curve for it which appears to ramp up the rpm sooner. Again though while the bios displayed the fan speed at 2000 I still don’t hear any...

I’ve downloaded fan xpert as recommended and ran the fan configuration. The CPU fan is running at ~2000 rpm according to this although unlike with the rear fan I’m unable to alter this via the different settings (quiet, turbo etc.) or change the fan curve. I also don’t hear any particular noise...

Yeah with the cooler I fell for the trap of a newer edition with positive reviews when looking at online retailers and assuming it would be suitable. I haven’t downloaded any software for CPU fan control as that definitely hadn’t crossed my mind, regarding potential noise from increasing this...

Glad to hear it’s not massively different then to move the radiator, I think my worry is regarding the connections to the motherboard as well and having to reorganise those to accommodate the changes, unfortunately something I was hoping to avoid. Thanks for the reply

Hi all, Firstly before the concerns and queries the specs of the PC: Case FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor i7-10700K (3.8GHz) 16MB Cache Motherboard ASUS® TUF Z490-PLUS GAMING (LGA1200, USB 3.2, CrossFireX) - ARGB Ready Memory...