Hey guys,

Are there different BIOS layouts on Tuf laptops? Mine is the A15, and when I open BIOS by pressing F2 after turning on the computer, the layout doesn’t look like the ones in instructional videos. I can’t find the setting Smart Fan or Fan Settings or whatever the fan setting should be called.

It’s supposed to be under ”CPU”, ”Hardware Monitor” or ”Advanced”, but I can’t even find Hardware Monitor in any if the menus. I’ve opened the advanced settings but there was nothing either.

I need the fan settings to turn off a fan as it has a really loud weird noise (I have external fans as backup).

Thanks for helping out!

Recently replaced my old Intel X99 system that had MSI X99A Gaming 7 and Core i7 5820K with new AMD X570 with Ryzen 5800X. Naturally I picked a board that was generally highly praised, especially for its VRM so I'll be worry free if I ever plan on buying CPU with moar cores. And I'm really disappointed with ASUS Strix X570-E Gaming compared to 6 years old board from MSI... and yes, I am using the latest official BIOS...

• horrendous mouse input lag

• horrible fan curve control where all neighboring fan curve points can move others when going below or above them (pair this with above input lag!)

• fan speeds can only be based on CPU temperature

• fan speeds are always instantaneous and super jerky

• Entirely lacks fixed manual mode

If I knew it's this bad I'd stick around with MSI, but I bought this because I generally have good experience with ASUS and now I'm stuck with this sad pile of high end components because BIOS is absolute garbage. My old MSI X99 board had super snappy and responsive mouse on identical monitor (ASUS VG248QE) and mouse (Logitech G502) I use now. Fan curve allowed you to shift control points on the curve which would always STOP at the lowest (or highest) level of the neighboring point instead of just pushing it further too like on ASUS. Pair that with massive mouse input lag and you can imagine how literally impossible it is to adjust the fan curve with mouse lagging all over the place and neighboring control points being pushed around messing entire fan curve). MSI also has SYSTEM temperature which is changing much slower compared to CPU temperature and was excellent method for controlling chassis fans. It fired up chassis fans slower and when you stopped doing intensive tasks, it kept chassis fans running for longer because it took a bit longer to get down, resulting in a smooth chassis fan curve that always cooled down system after intensive tasks. Here on ASUS, as soon as CPU drops in temp, case fans also instantly drop. Ridiculous and useless design. Then there is jerky and instantaneous fan changing. On MSI, even if CPU temp shot up, it had a lazy fan increase curve which made it really easy on the ears. Even manually changing the fixed fan speed meant it needed few seconds to reach 100% speed). ASUS board on the other hand, just instantly fires them up and these quick shifts are so annoying. And lastly, there is no MANUAL FIXED fan mode. On MSI you disable the curve and you get a fixed speed control with 0-100% slider. On ASUS you need to move about entire damn fan curve to achieve that. Ridiculous and beyond clumsy. Also why are fan presents not in order of Silent - Standard - Turbo - Full Speed - Manual. Instead, Standard is first and Silent is second. I know it's a minor thing, but still.

I generally have good experience with ASUS, but this is just sad to a point it feels like the worst motherboard I've ever used. And also the most expensive one at it. What's more worrying is that no one seems to be annoyed by it. Has no one ever tried how amazing and advanced MSI's fan control is while still very simple to manage? ASUS should really do better. Starting with fixing the ridiculous mouse input lag...

Which temperature sensor should I be monitoring for high temps? I realized the ASUS BIOS Fan Control uses the CPU temp sensor in the socket which seems to report a lower temperature than Ryzen Master and HWiNFO's "CPU (Tctl/Tdie)" sensor. But shouldn't fan control be based on the higher temperatures? Not a sensor reporting lower temperatures? Could this be an issue?

System Configuration:

Operating System: Windows 11

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x with PBO enabled

GPU: GIGABYTE RTX 2070 Super

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero

RAM: 4x8GB DDR4-3600 with XMP settings

PSU: EVGA 750W. I forget the exact model but it's Gold rated