[lm-sensors] Using Asus P5Q-E sensors/pwm

[Jeff Rickman]

On 6/30/2011 3:53 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:42:30 +0200, Etienne Buira wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:47:15PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> Is it OK if you disable smart fan control altogether? If even the
>>> fastest smart fan setting doesn't work for you, then maybe your cooling
>>> solution is simply not adequate.
>>
>> q-fan turbo is most of the time enough, it is just not smart enough to
>> figure out my weird cooling installation when the weather is getting
>> warmy (though, nothing seems to be really boiling, but some temps might
>> reduce parts lifetimes). And it obviously cannot figure out when I don't
>> care about noise, and when I do.
>
> I would certainly appreciate if Asus could add fine-tuning to their
> BIOS rather than arbitrary thermal profiles (if nothing else, just to
> see what each profiles does exactly.) And I would appreciate even more
> if we had a way to adjust the values at runtime.
>

I agree with Jean. I and many of my friends use Asus boards exclusively 
for desktop purposes (non-work related builds). Fine-tuning the 
fans/cooling profiles would be appreciated for the same reasons.