I just finished building my new PC. Which consists of a Q6600 95w edition, Asus P5KE, Corsair 4gb DDR2, Corsair HX520w, XFX 7600GT XXX (to be upgraded to XFX 8800GT), Samsung F1 500gb, and Vista Ultimate retail edition.
I decided to go down the aftermarket cooler route for my CPU straight away. And since i had the Zalman 9500 AM2 on my AMD 4200+ X2, and it did a good job, i decided to buy the Zalman CNPS9700 NT for this one.
And it has "4-pin PWM fan for automatic fan speed control based on CPU temperature".
Therefore i assume the hotter the temperatures are, the faster the fan will spin. However it seems to be running at top speed....as i can hear it. And my temperatures are showing up as:
Core #0 - 32oC
Core #1 - 31oC
Core #2 - 27oC
Core #3 - 33oC
And i dont understand why its running so fast. Too loud for my liking, my 9500 had the fanmate and was silent, and even when on top speed it was barely noitceable.
HELP!
Do i need some sort of software.
I havent installed my drivers for the motherboard etc yet, going to do that now