Originally posted by SixedUp
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I finally managed to get hold of an ASRock Q1900-ITX. This is very slightly different to the Q1900B-ITX that was being benchmarked by riklaunim (more SATA ports, primarily) and although it does have the Nuvoton Super I/O chip on board, which both lmsensors and fancontrol support, ASRock have only provided 3 pin fan headers - so there is still NO support for PWM fans. Which is very frustrating.
I'm running it in a 2U rack case with a couple of big drives, so completely passive cooling is probably going to be a step too far. However, as the rest of the board meets my needs, I'm going to take the easy way out and just buy a fan controller to add-in instead. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd be happy to hear them - I don't need anything "Bling", just to control the speed of the fans depending on the temperatures. I've got 4 fans in the case, and lots of PWM splitters in my parts bin, so one or two channel would be more than sufficient.
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