Now you: Do you use tools to control the fan speed of your PCs? You may use it to reduce the speed of supported fans to reduce the noise level of the PC this works best if the temperature increase caused by the fan rotation decrease does not impact the PC's stability. Closing WordsįanCtrl is a well designed open source application it may not work on every PC you run it on as some configurations may not be supported, but if it does, it does deliver. Activate it to display temperature and fan speed information as well as RAM and FPS in an overlay on the screen. The second feature that FanCtrl supports is an on-screen display. Supported modes are normal, silence, performance, and game. You need to enable "automatic fan control" and may then assign modes to sensors and fans. A click on the option opens a new configuration window. The first allows you to configure the program's automatic controlling of fans. The fan control program for Microsoft Windows devices supports two additional options. Other motherboards via LibreHardwareMonitorLib or OpenHardwareMonitorLib.You may use them to change the update interval from the default 1000ms, enable or disable the use of libraries and support for certain devices, and configure the program to start with Windows.Īs far as support is concerned, the developer notes the following components are supported: Raising the fan speed on the other hand may lower the temperature but increase the noise the fan makes.Ī click on options displays a number of settings. Lowering the fan speed may increase the temperature of the component and lower the noise of the fan at the same time. You could lower or raise the fan speed of a component using the fan control fields. Just click in a field and type to change the value. You can rename device and fan names for better identification, and change the fan control value easily. The temperature of each component, as reported by the component or motherboard, and the fan speed is listed by the program. I ran it on several systems to get a feel for it it supports plenty of hardware components including processors, video cards, and motherboards. The program displays the temperature of components that it detected on start and the fan speed of those components. NET Framework 4.6 but can be run from any location.įanCtrl works similarly to Speedfan. For video card fans, I used MSI Afterburner, a free software for all video card manufacturers.įanCtrl is a free program for Windows. I used the free tool Speedfan about a decade ago to control fans on Windows PCs to reduce the noise these fans generated. It's because of the drive replacement.While that is necessary to keep components from overheating, it is sometimes problematic because of the noise that these fans make. But that's for another thread.īut you can't run smcFan and SSDFan concurrently.Īnd this has nothing to do with resetting the SMC. I have been running smcFan on this Mac for three years plus, with no problems because I know how not to overdo it. ![]() HDDFan Control is not cheap, However, there is a FREE version of HDDFan Control, which should do the job.Īnd by the way, smcFan Control, used for the purpose of manually regulating the fan speeds to minimum speeds- it's only purpose-where they would not be ramped up properly according to temperature, will NOT prematurely burn out the fan motors, so long as you keep the pre-sets within reason. In other words, it will keep the fan revs where they should be. You DO want HDD Fan Control, which will keep the drive fan regulated according to the input it is receiving from the System Management Controller (the SMC), and prevent the drive fan from ramping up to maximum rpms in this situation. That will only allow you to set minimum fan speeds in different presets. You don't want smcFan Control for this job. A lot of misinformation has preceded my post.
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