Now, CAM can tell you the Rad fan speeds AND the PUMP speed of its system. I expect this would be done whether or not SmartFan is Enabled, but I don't know. An important second function of the CPU_FAN header is to monitor the speed of its fan (in your case, of the Kraken PUMP) for FAILURE and generate a quick alarm and protective action. So if you turn SmartFan off, I am not sure whether the BIOS will do the fan speed reading job. It also MAY be involved in actually counting the pulses in the fan speed signal lines to display fan speeds, although that function is not needed for fan control. SmartFan is the system built into the mobo BIOS (probably not a software utility loaded to run under Windows) that manipulates fan speeds to keep temperatures on target as measured at specific sensors. The Why? part mainly is my being cautious because the Kraken manual does NOT tell us exactly how it does some things, AND the mobo manual does not tell us all the things SmartFan does.
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