Software Fan Regulator. Is there such a thing?

[BDSM]

Yeah.. I want to regulate fan rpm from within windows.. No knobs. And it would be awesome if it would be possible to program it too so the rpm would go up at certain temps.

Is there a product that can do this?

 

[nebula]

I did something similiar to control the speed of a DC motor. I used a microcontroller to talk to a digital potentiometer, that's the key piece. When I would push a button, the micro would see that a send a command out to the digipot and it would change its resistance and hence motor speed. The micro I used can be interfaced with the serial port and you could write a little VB app.

BasicX-24 Micro programs with basic, very easy to use. Not exactly super cheap, but very powerful. I've seen them on eBay.
Digipot

 

[beatle]

SpeedFan

 

[Bluefront]

SilentTek

 

[BDSM]

hey thanks all of you for the replies!

I can't wait until I come home to try to test this!! (the smartfan program) if it works with the abit nf7 2.0 I am in heaven cuz then I can up the cpu speed just a li'l bit more (I wanan get up over the 2500 mhz mark!!) and still don't have to have unbearable noiselevels since I rarely do anything more than browsing and play chess online