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Noctua NA-FC1 - how to control via software?
My OS is Windows 10 Pro
I've been having issues with my system overheating during certain games (especially Assassin's Creed Odyssey)...
I recently upgraded to NVidia RTX 2080 ti (Hybrid, with both AOI and fan cooling) and Ryzen 7 5800X3D (Corsair h100i cooler)... though neither are overclocked, they are extremely powerful at default settings, and generate a *lot* of heat!! I've actually been climbing into upper 70s C during game play - especially recently, when my computer room is running at upper 80s F in our CA heat spell...
So I upgraded to more-powerful fans for the front of the computer, and got the Noctua NA-FC1 controller to control fan speed. It works well enough under manual control, but I really would prefer to use software control to manage this device - but I don't have any idea how to do this, and the NA-FC1 manual doesn't discuss software at all...
First of all, I have the controller plugged into CHA_FAN3/WP (Chassis/Water Pump Fan Connector)... I've looked around in various pages in Device Manager and in HWINFO, but nothing appears to actually know that there is a PWM-controlled device there... I was hoping that the Corsair iCue would somehow recognize this device and let me set up a fan-speed-vs-temp curve, as it does for the h100i cooler block, but it doesn't seem to know about the Noctua device.
Beyond that, I don't know what to look for in control software...
Any advice would be *very* welcome...
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Well, I found one solution... a logical one, though it took me a while to realize it...
I am already running ASRock Tuning Utility, for my ASRock x570 motherboard... it has a tab labelled FAN-Tastic Tuning, which lets me select which fan I wish to control, and set curves for each of them... that is working perfectly!!
That makes sense; only the MB maker would know what specific fan connectors were available on a board...