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Message: [QUOTE="Shamiso, post: 92429, member: 160"] Palit says the RiTONA OC fans can remain stopped until the GPU reaches about 60°C or board power passes roughly 150 W. A motionless fan at the desktop can therefore be completely normal, not an instant sign something has gone wrong. The confusing bit is what happens afterward. Palit does not use one simple temperature switch for stopping the fans again, and ThunderMaster gives you enough control to make the behavior look inconsistent if you change several settings at once. The [B][URL='https://goldmidi.com/community/threads/palit-introduces-rtx-5060-ti-ritona-oc-graphics-card.77759/']Palit RTX 5060 Ti RiTONA OC design[/URL][/B] uses two large fans and a zero-RPM idle mode, so the sensible starting point is the default automatic curve. Change it only when you have an actual noise or temperature problem to solve. [HEADING=2]Zero-RPM behavior has more rules than one temperature[/HEADING] The fans are allowed to start when the GPU reaches roughly 60°C or total graphics power rises past about 150 W. Stopping is stricter. Palit lists three conditions for the quiet state to return, with GPU temperature below roughly 50°C, memory below roughly 80°C, and total graphics power below about 60 W. This explains a common head-scratcher. You can watch the core fall to 48°C and still see both fans spinning because memory is warmer or the card is drawing too much power. Waiting for the whole board to settle is more useful than staring at the GPU temperature alone. ThunderMaster also has a Fan Stop switch. Leave it on if you want the factory zero-RPM behavior. Turn it off, and the fans keep spinning, with their speed then following whichever curve you have selected. For basic troubleshooting, load a game or benchmark long enough to push the card beyond its idle state, then watch temperature, power, and fan RPM together. If the fans wake under load and later stop once the board cools properly, the system is doing what Palit intended. A 2025 [B][URL='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2025.110749']psychoacoustic analysis of computer axial fans[/URL][/B] also shows why chasing the lowest temperature with aggressive fan speed can be a bad trade. High-frequency fan components matter heavily to perceived annoyance, so a cooler number on screen is not automatically a nicer PC to sit beside. [HEADING=2]A custom fan curve should solve one problem[/HEADING] ThunderMaster offers automatic control, a fixed fan speed, and a user-defined fan curve. Auto is the boring option, which is exactly why it is a good baseline. You get Palit's intended balance without spending an evening nudging dots around a graph because one game made the fans noticeable. Use a custom curve when the factory response bothers you in a repeatable way. A sudden ramp during a specific load can justify smoothing the curve, while consistently high temperatures can justify bringing the fans up earlier. Random tweaking usually gives you more variables and less useful information. Fixed speed is mainly handy for diagnosis. Holding the fans at one value lets you compare temperatures or identify an annoying RPM range without the controller constantly moving underneath you. It is a poor everyday setting if you want the card quiet at idle. ThunderMaster can save up to six profiles, which is more useful than it sounds. Keep one profile close to stock before experimenting, then use another for your custom curve. If a change behaves strangely, you have somewhere sane to return instead of trying to remember every slider you touched. Avoid asking two utilities to manage the same GPU fan behavior at the same time. Pick one controller for the curve, apply the setting, and verify the result under a repeatable load. Cleaner testing beats conflicting background control. [HEADING=2]RGB settings can live on the card[/HEADING] ThunderMaster also controls the RiTONA lighting, and some lighting choices can be written to the board as the default. Once saved, the selected effect can appear at boot without you rebuilding the look every time Windows starts. There is a catch. Palit says GPU Temperature and Rainbow lighting modes cannot be saved to the board with the default-setting feature. Other effects can use the onboard option where supported, although Palit notes that some models may require a BIOS update for the feature. The six-profile system can keep fan, overclocking, and RGB choices together, but resist the urge to make every profile radically different. One known-good stock profile and one carefully changed daily profile are easier to diagnose than six mystery presets with different fan logic. ThunderMaster also lets you choose which monitoring values appear on its main panel, with eight items visible from a larger set of available readings. For this card, GPU temperature, power, and fan RPM are the useful trio when zero-RPM behavior looks odd. Watching all three makes the fan-stop rules much less mysterious. [/QUOTE]

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