I Love SpeedFan

[idea]

My PC experience just wouldn't be the same without it. It gives me all my stats, controls my CPU fan speed, and throttles my FSB according to CPU usage. What would I do without it?

 

[n7]

You'd be a more normal person without it

j/k j/k...i should check it out since my fans are noisy

 

[BlueWeasel]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[dug777]

it's mundo kewl

BTW- ne one know if i can control a fan's speed when i'm powering it off a psu cable adapter thingo- but have the sensor line running into the socket on the mobo? Cos i can control the one fan that is running of the mobo completely (ie the three pronged bit is plugged into the chassis fan three-pin thing on the mobo- but not the other set-up (currently running a separate 200w psu just so i can turn off one 5w fan in my case!)

& can i get a version that will allow me 2 play with the fsb on my A7V8X- i noticed there was support for the A7N8X's but not mine?

 

[idea]

Nope I think the power line has to be attached to the mobo. The one cable you are using is the speed sensor.

As for the A7V8X support, check the updated 4.20 version.

 

[dug777]

damn! Cheers ne way-i'll just have 2 keep using my second psu then

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Comparetti is a standup guy. I sent him a "tech-support" query once at 2AM, woke up the next morning and found his response stamped "sent" at just after 7AM.

For a couple months, the program would suddenly grab one of the hyperthreads on my processor and run it up to 100% usage. Definitely a "bug". I sidelined the program until after Xmas.

Then, I send Alfredo my question. I had crashed my system once before putting it on the back burner, and the crash had made my GUI look like Spumoni ice-cream spilled on a hot sidewalk during a Sunbelt summer.

The answer to the question involved keeping the nVidia graphics thermal sensors and stock fan out of the SpeedFan polling loop, and I could've cared less if SpeedFan successfully controlled my video-card cooling fan, anyway. I don't have an ordinary cooling fan on the video card. So I followed directions and inserted /NONVIDIAI2C as a command line parameter in all the SpeedFan shortcuts.

Since then, it has been marvelous. It has been my ASUS P4P800 instead that has fallen short of expectations, since they only implemented full fan-control for the CPU_FAN header despite the potential resources of the Winbond super-IO controller chip on the board.

THIS is why I'm not all that eager for low-rpm (and low-noise) fans if I can find fans that operate in a wide range with low noise levels at least in the middle of the range. Running PRIME95, Hoyle Casino, MS Fright Stimulator 2004 -- just about anything -- SpeedFan 4.20 is rock-stable.

Take a look at the VLSystem Zephyrus and mCubed T-Balancer controllers -- priced at around $60, and take a look at the review of same. They BOTH still have to go through the CPU to do the polling, they both ADD a hardware level to your system, and they BOTH have early-in-the-game software with bugs in it. Why bother?

Send Alfredo a $10 PayPal donation. He deserves it even more for this: When I mentioned that I would eventually send a few bucks his way, he told me "Don't worry -- you don't have to do it . . "