I think we can all remember the little screamers that used to come on top of the SB years ago. I did get a couple of 40mm fans and glued them onto an Adaptec RAID card, entirely inaudible at 12v.... so hopefully Asus haven't been daft with the fans.
I did pick up a wee bit more information on the fan controls from Hardware Canucks. Have a look
here and it's got a bit of info about the Fan Xpert. It is one of my pet hates with Asus though. The update the Fan Xpert software for new boards only, existing boards get stuck with the old software, despite there being no hardware limitation on it. My Crosshair IV Forumula Fan Xpert isn't quite as good as it could be, but they've not touched it since launch pretty much.
I also hope the little fans aren't necessary because of the 'armour'. I hope that the 'armour' doesn't stop airflow to the point where without the fans you'd see 50+ MB temps.
You wouldn't be able to look in the manual (they only have Chinese on the FTP) and see if the system controls the speed of the little fans Flanker, would you?
In other news I stuck a new SSD in, the Intel 520 and it seems that a proper power saving sleep mode might now be available... a disaster as it removes my reason for an upgrade. However if my PC crashes just once between now and the end of April I'm buying Ivy Bridge.
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