02-25-2016, 08:59 PM
I've got an ASRock Z170 OC Formula board that works alright with 4 GTX 980s. I've beefed up several of the chassis fans that handle the cooling ok, but now they're quite loud. I'd like to be able to spin them down when the system isn't under a heavy load. My problem is that the fan control is handled in the bios and only has the ability to monitor the mobo or CPU temp. Since most of my heat is generated by the GPUs, ideally I'd like to be able to control the fans based on that. The Asrock board has a Windows utility that can control the fans, but I'm in Ubuntu and I need it to be scriptable. Getting the temperatures of the GPUs isn't a problem.
So here are my two questions:
1. Does anyone know of a way to control the chassis fans on this Asrock board from the command line in linux?
2. Would anyone recommend a hardware fan controller that I can control through linux?
Is there another solution I'm missing?
So here are my two questions:
1. Does anyone know of a way to control the chassis fans on this Asrock board from the command line in linux?
2. Would anyone recommend a hardware fan controller that I can control through linux?
Is there another solution I'm missing?