Great, but how about everyone else?įor every manufacturer in a long time, the CPU fan header support PWM and usually DC control too, with the rest being anyone's guess. I assume most Z170 boards retain this feature.
I believe starting from Z97, most Asus boards (the ones labeled with Fan Xpert 3) support both DC and PWM control on every fan header. And yet again, a lot of these are not necessarily well documented, while others are evolutionary changes that aren't focuses of marketing.Ĭutting to the chase, does anybody have any idea which Z170 boards support which kinds of fan control on which fan headers in response to which temperature readings or other forms of input? With a new chipset and lineup of motherboards usually comes some new features up and down (or partially down) the product stack for the motherboard manufacturers in a vain attempt at differentiation in the modern era of chipsets and CPUs themselves providing the vast majority of functionality on boards.
