Well it’s been 4 years since I’ve had this computer case (Coolermaster Centurion) and the front 80mm fan makes rediculously loud chugging noises when the comp starts up. Probably because of the cold weather (it does this almost every winter but never in summer). So I went and bought a new fan with shiney leds for $8 bucks and gutted out the old one.
Then I realised that the new fan makes much more operational noise than the previous one which leads me to the point of this post which is fan control XD. I’m sure that if you’re a gamer, sometimes you just want your beast of a computer to stfu while you’re watching a movie/dvd/something you downloaded/”backed up”/etc. Or maybe you just want your comp to be more quite while it’s running overnight working away with your torrents.
After a bit of googling I’ve found this program which everyone seems to talk about called SpeedFan (best name evar).
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
And here are some guides on how you’re meant to use it:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1285260
http://unitstep.net/blog/2007/11/02/using-speedfan-to-automatically-control-your-pcs-fan-speeds
Firstly, any damage this may cause to your computer because you turned off all the fans on your comp will be your own fault =]
This program was a bit of a pain in the ass to set up, but once you get it up and running you’ll notice that things are much more quieter.
You can follow the guides above or follow a quick outline that I’ll post here. (Without pics though cause I’m lazy)
- ASUS motherboards need to have Q-Fan disabled in the BIOS.
- In the program tick “Automatic fan speed” near the top right.
- Click Configure
- In the “Temperatures” tab, expand every single list item and untick all the boxes inside (don’t untick the parent).
- Go over to the “Speeds” tab. Now here I got a bit lost, but you’ll just have to test out which speed belongs to which fan on your case/motherboard/cpu/gpu.
- For example, I have CPU0 and CPU1 Fan listed in the main window (among others). It just so happens that CPU1 is my chassi fan and it corresponds to “Speed02″. So, with “Speed02″, change the minimum value as you see fit (usually leave the maximum at 100%) and make sure “Automatically variated” is checked.
- Go back to the “Temperatures” tab and listed under CPU (since on the main window the fan is called CPU1), expand it and check the box for “Speed02″.
- Set the desired and warning values. Desired is the minimum temperature (minimum fan speed), and Warning is the maximum temperature (maximum fan speed).
- Click “OK” and within a few seconds you should hear one of the fans in your computer become gradually silent.
If I’ve lost you, be sure to read the 2nd guide link. It’ll help out a lot cause it has screen shots of each step =]
