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G Good to know. So Afterburner is the app of choice amongst Geforce GPU users here?

Reassuring to hear. In fairness it has settled down a lot over the last couple of days. Just the occaisional burble on start up. No leaks fortunately, I've got a good view of the mobo under strip white LED lighting and all looks clean

Thank's I'll look into it. And these are good calls for a ASUS Turbo-GTX1080-8G or should I be looking for manufacturer specific software? Specifically for driver updates and what not, or is ference design fine with te 1080? I tried to register the Geforce Experience app that came pre installed...

Thanks Mike (& Mcnumpty). I just looked up Afterburner. It appears to an MSI product, is there a more suitable option for ASUS cards - or is this sotware just monitoring the 1080 reference design?

Resolved! Sort of... no fan controller :o just a simple splitter, the passthrough (combining the absent lighting) had not been attached to the 4-pin molex power source. It was hidden round the back of an otherwise very tidy build behind the motherboard plate. Is it normal practise to run...

Is it common practice to run the chassis fans directly off the PSU for the sake of cable tidyness? I suppose the next step is rip off the other side panel and see if the've been connected to a splitter running up the back hidden behind the mobo... Well, I bought it 'as new' off fleebay from a...

Right well, in answer to that, this doesn't look too good does it: Here's a schematic of the board showing chassis fan connectors 1 and 2 - And the view of the build showing the relevent top half of the mobo - and details of each BARE connector terminal

Definately strange. Pushed the to CPU 55degrees and GPU to 82degrees trying a game - DayZ - and the case fans still won't kick in. CPUID was a good call, thanks - temps decribed measured from that

what do you recommend for intel? full sys setup: Case: NZXT S340 (with x2 NZXT branded fans installed - but not running!) Processor: 8th Generation Intel® 6-Core™ i7 8700k Motherboard: ASUS Z370 Chipset ASUS Prime 2370-PII Graphics: Dedicated NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ASUS Turbo-GTX1080-8G...

Ah apologies. I missed that in your earlier reply

Thanks. Any thoughts on how to monitor temps from within Windows (rather than ending a session and going into the BIOS)?

It settles down after a few minutes, but is always present on booting and for a while into a windows session

But I can only access that info when sitting in BIOS. Is there a way to read that in natively in the windows environment, or do I need to install 3rd party software?

Ah OK, good to know - though I feel I need to confirm it's only that, without tearing down the entire build to check connections if at all possible! Any recommendations for thermally monitoring CPU/GPU/RAM etc from within the windows environment? Can't seem to find a way to do this natively in...

Hi. Just received a new build and am very concerned as the case fans appear to be kaput. How can I check system temperatures - I feel the urgent need to monitor what's thermally happening before I end up doing damage even at idle! Cant seem to find a way to do so in Windows 10 natively...

New build (or rather, system purchase - I didn't build it) and the two case fans are failing to fire up on start up. Is this normal behaviour? Do some mobo/case combinations boot without spin up and kick in only when temps rise? Seems odd to me. Also the case is advertised as having white case...

Hi, new build and new to watercooling. Bit alarmed as just fired up PC for the first time and there is a very audible gurgling/trickling sound. Is this normal, is it like trapped air in a central heating radiator or should I immediately shut down the system and reach for the hairdryer! Using a...

Cheers. Hope so!

Thanks. I ended up taking a punt on said well known auction site, and landed (in excess of my planned budget) a full system. for £860: Processor: 8th Generation Intel® 6-Core™ i7 8700k Motherboard: ASUS Z370 Chipset Graphics: Dedicated NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Memory: 16GB G.Skill Trident...

A very long time since I last upgraded, and I am woefully out of touch. Been looking at auctions for complete systems on a certain 2nd hand mass market site and I'm wondering if 2nd hand i7 are the answer or just build up from a Ryzen barebones base? The intel based pre loved gaming systems...