MP 6,1 Fan is spinning but SMC reports 0 RPM (2667v2)

[tpivette89]

Glad you got everything sorted out!

I’m about to pull the trigger on 64gb of Micron RAM on ebay... perhaps that will bump the Geekbench scores up to near yours. Time will tell.

I have my fan control software set to start ramping up at 40 degrees, and to max out at 75 degrees. So thats why my fans come off idle slightly during the Geekbench tests.

 

[crystalidea]

Thanks!

I also find the default fan control pretty conservative and spin up the fan manually for better cooling when doing some intensive tasks.

PS. Got 64 GB 4 x 16 GB SK Hynix PC3-14900R ECC (great deal for just 84 EUR incl. shipping at ebay)
Time to update your signature to 8 core

 

[flygbuss]

@tpivette89

I swapped the I/O board between 2 computers and both fans work fine. I'm 99% sure that was a bad connection with the interconnect board. Now all good, thanks!

Regarding the GeekBench scores, I consistently have 900/6500, 64GB of RAM
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My fan is always at min rpm during GeekBench. Actually, it starts to speed up only after ~15 minutes of Handbrake encoding when CPU temp is 70C+
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Told you so!
Really glad for you all is good now. I cleaned one of the nMP in the studio yesterday and re-applied the thermal paste (Gelid GC Extreme) and noticed the same thing. Not a chance to make the fan spin up with GeekBench. It went up from 790 to 830 after 15 min of encoding a h264 with compressor. It's the E5-2690 V2.