I have all fans set to manual, full on.Hi Matt
How do you have the case fans managed? Are they set to smart fan in the BIOS? As just found this thread https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...LfhkhN9us6bJYDFrg&sig2=p45A36oAPAxOd7TuaoIW5g
I did briefly dabble with the smart fan setting for the CPU fan, and indeed the fan didn't run---until there was load. That somewhat makes sense to me as I'm willing to bet that the CPU, in its least-power state, can be adequately cooled passively.
But, for my purposes, I keep the machine in a closet, and don't care about noise, and having the fans set to full on just seems simpler to me.