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Is 69% fan speed good enough when gaming with 75 degrees on intense gpu workload? My concern is that maybe the gpu will get hot to not get handled with 69% fan speed. I set it to this because above 69 or 70 it would produce a grinding noise. I customized a fan curve to my liking and this is how it looks does it perform well?

______________________________ Version updated date: 11/04/2022 Current update version: 136 https://getfancontrol.com To run at startup: Use the new "Start with Windows" option in the left hamburger menu ______________________________ Tutorials: ______________________________ TLDR ______________________________ I built a new custom UI on top of OpenHardwareMonitor with additional features, mainly linear fan curves with custom temperature sources. ______________________________ STORY ______________________________ As you guys may know, SpeedFan is sadly not updated anymore, so newer boards are not detected properly. The main feature I used was the custom fan curves with custom temperature sources. I used it to bind my case fans speed to the hottest component of my PC, my GPU. (My BIOS only supports CPU temperature as a temperature source for the PWM fans). I searched around for an alternative software with this particular feature and only found a paid option (Angus Monitor). However, I also came around this: https://github.com/openhardwaremonitor/openhardwaremonitor https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor The first link is an original project which could be downloaded here https://openhardwaremonitor.org/, but just like SpeedFan, the project is not updated anymore. However, thanks to the code base being open sourced, there are a couple of active branches, LibreHardwareMonitor being the best one I found, supporting my MSI Z390 Edge AC board and being updated regularly. OpenHardwareMonitor is divided into two parts, an API to interact with your hardware ( CPU, RAM, Fans... ) and a UI. The existing UI is a HWMonitor clone that allows to set a manual fan speed to any fan, but no temperature/speed fan curve here. ( sigh ) So I decided to make my own lightweight application with the OpenHardwareMonitorLib API, and here is what I got so far... Current features: OTA update Multi-config support with quick-switch from tray icon Dark/light mode + colors Graph fan curves Linear fan curves Flat fan curves Mixed fan curves Sync fan curves Custom name for each fan / curve / control Material UI ( thanks to http://materialdesigninxaml.net/ ) Smooth fan speed transitions Custom temperature source Automatic or manual matching between your controls and fan speeds Activation% (dead zone) for each fan Saves your current configuration and reload it on startup Board support is updated whenever the API gets an update! Please note that this is a small personal project. It works great for my needs but I didn't test it on a hundred different motherboards. Take it as it is. If it works on your current setup, well you got your fan control situation sorted at least until you change your motherboard! If you want to help me out a bit or give me feedback, I included some links/button in the left hamburger menu out of the way to send me an email or to pay me a ... or . I will also keep an eye on this thread to see how it goes. Confirmed compatibility list from members Enjoy!

im having issues setting the aio pump and fans to a certain curve i try l connect 3 and nothing very weird

so i just recently got a prebuilt PC from a reputable company. .I love the computer and it runs all the game i want very well. This is the first PC ive had since 2016. So im very out of sync now, as opposed to 8 years ago lol. Im using an intel i3 13100f..a gigabyte B760 MB..16gb of ram, and an rtx 3050.. so my question is one i know alot of people probably bring up, and ive read alot of forums and feel like i know whats going to be said when i ask this..but this PC was a large investment..and i want to take the best care as i can of it.. and btw my cpu cooler is stock, but at some point ill move to a liquid cooler, but it wont be for a few months, maybe less. SO under load, load being when download updates for games/playing specific games..ive noticed the cpu getting to 80c, or a bit under 80c. Normally its anywhere from 32C , like right now im looking at it and its 32c, with nothing going on beside google..with certain games itll b around 50-65c..i was just installing an 18gb update for this game..and it shot up to around 75c...this MB came with gigabyte control center installed so i can see fan curves, temps, memory info, overclocking stuff, etc...so the fan curves were automatically set up to run the fans at X speed when the cpu is at X temp...so the hotter it gets, the faster they spin..but im concerned becasue the fans go up and down sometimes pretty quickly to keep the temp at reasonable levels..and im concerned the the fans going up and down that the fans will wear out or soemthing. im NOT a tech guy, i love computers and hardware but im not very educated in all the specifics and etc..so please keep that in mind lol. So is it ok for the fans to jump around, speed wise? am i being paranoid?

basically, I've been trying to create a fan curve that isn't the silent mode in smart fan as the silent mode still ramps ramps up fast from 40c which is my idle lol. Anyway, I've been trying to customise it but it won't let me at the points just aren't moving. My fans are 3 pins so I have to control them in the bios as they don't have PWM which is annoying. I've got an Aorus b550 elite matx mobo. I can't use software to control the curve due to it being 3 pin.

I would like to keep the idle temp on the lower end, but I don't want put undue wear on the fans when I am not gaming.

Does anyone have any good balanced fan curve suggestions? I got an RTX 3070 with a Ryzen 5 5600X and an NZXT Kraken Z63 aio on the CPU. The two intake fans are connected to the aio in the front of the case, while I have the three exhaust fans in the back. All the fans are Corsair QL fans; the three in the back are 120mm, the 2 in the front are 140mm. (I use Corsair's iCUE software to control the fan speeds for the three exhaust fans, while I use the NZXT Cam software for the two fans on the aio.)

Hi i just bought The corsair h100x and connected The pump to The cpu_opt and its 2 120mm fans to The cpu_fan. I have a ryzen 7 3700x but The problem is that when my computer is turnd on it isvery loud. Suld i set a custom fan curve? Dose The fan spred on The aio matte ore shuld i just sett a custom fan curve for The pump? IF someone can help i would appriciate it thanks.

Hi i just bought The corsair h100x and connected The pump to The cpu_opt and its 2 120mm fans to The cpu_fan. I have a ryzen 7 3700x but The problem is that when my computer is turnd on it isvery loud. Suld i set a custom fan curve? Dose The fan spred on The aio matte ore shuld i just sett a custom fan curve for The pump? IF someone can help i would appriciate it thanks.

Hi, Quick question, I wanted to set a custom fan curve for my Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Eagle OC 8GB because I heard that the stock fan curve sucks. Basically the fans start at 45 degrees celcius and almost instantly go to 95 percent speed. This is my first time making a fan curve and based on some internet research I made this. Is it good?

Hi all I have this weird issue with afterburner, maybe someone have a solution or ideas how to solve it. (lets start by saying, that if I don´t use afterburner, the GPU will go wonkers with fan spinning during intense gaming, thus the reason I want it on) So.. I have everything set up, tried various options firmware control and hardware zero fan override (so I can start at 30, it is dead silent at fan speeds below 55) The auto feature is not on and the box around the "custom" is filled (it is grey however, don´t know if that is an issue) but I can click it on. When I ie. game, the temp will obviously raise, but the fan speeds do nothing, the fanspeed just sits at what I have slided it too at default (like if I have it on 30, it is 30 all the time, no matter the temp, if it is 50, then 50 all the time) This is just an example of a custom fan curve and what I have tried to put on (I usually never had firmware or override on, those have just been used for testing) I have tried with less agressive curves and so forth.. But no matter what, nothing happens, it just sits at the fan speed you see the slider on, if I move the slider, the fan speed changes (obviously) Maybe I should try out the Asus software? I heard it have custom fan curve control as well, can anyone recommend that? is it as good as afterburner? As you might notice, the core voltage is also greyed out, but that is alright, I just want the custom fan control. Extra information If I hit the custom fan symbol at the left and then also add auto, then the fans do spin better (they still go higher, than I want to on lower temps) but it is atleast acceptable in many cases, unless it is a super demanding activity (then it can still go around 79c and then go full 100% fanspeed) I had similar experience (albeit nothing near this in terms if noise issue) with my old 2080 card, that went up and down all the time (also with programs uninstalled) but it is still annoying not to be able to put a proper custom fan.

Relevant specs: TUF B450-Plus Gaming - Bios 3002 and 3211 - Windows 10 Home 64 bit 21H2 - Noctua NF-P12 fans (non-PWM) Everything worked well until I upgraded my bios to version 3211 to set a new boot logo (I don't remember what version I was on before). The flash went well, but it reset my bios settings, so I changed them to adjust my RAM speed and I also changed the fans settings. When I booted into Windows, AI Suite 3 claimed that I needed to redo my fan tuning since my fan configuration changed. I did, and my fan curve was locked to 100% for all fans. I flashed bios version 3002, did the tuning again, but it didn't work. After disabling AI Suite 3 on boot I managed to have my bios managed my fan speeds but this isn't optimal since I sometimes need to change my fan curves on the fly, so I tried one last time to tune AI Suite 3 and hoped it would work this time, but now it makes my fan ramp up to 100% as soon as windows boots even though it's still not running at startup. Now after a lot of reboots here's where I am: All my fans are non-PWM, and are set as such in my bios. I am running Bios version 3002 (not latest). I reinstalled AI Suite 3. Only my two Noctua fans have the fan curve issue, not my third fan. I did the tuning process many times, both in the bios and AI Suite 3. Here's what it looks like for both fans: (UI translated in mspaint by yours truly) The red zone is the minimal voltage for the fan to run. Before I had any issue, every fan curve looked similar to this: What's weird is that it does detect the voltage-RPM curve correctly (on the right), and that this issue occurs on my NF-P12 fans but not my third fan, even though they're all non-PWM and configured the same in the bios. On top of that the update also broke my RGB configuration (Armoury Crate didn't detect my RAM anymore) but I sorted that out already.

Hello! I recently installed a couple of new PWM fans in my PC. I have not really messed much with the fan curve but I would like to do some tweaking. Since I first installed the fans I didn't change any settings. So I guess they ran on some kind of default profile. It felt like the fans ran on a higher RPM than what they actually could be running at. Resulting in a louder idle state. ASUS Armoury Crate was installed by default when I recently built the computer. So that software did come with some basic fan control, in the form of pre defined profiles. So I tried them out. Now the idle dB and RPM seems to be fine. But it will at some points during gaming enter a turbo state which makes the PC sound like it is about to take off from my desk. So my question is if there are any other other software with better control of the actual fan curve than Armoury Crate? And if I install a new software, could it somehow interfere with the Armoury Crate settings? Also, is it bad for fans to run in turbo mode? Did not catch the RPM during that state though. Fans and CPU cooler: 1 x Noctua NH-U14S(CPU cooler) 2 x Noctua NF-A14 140mm PWM(intake front) 1 x Noctua NF-F12 120mm PWM(exhaust rear) Thanks in advance!

Im trying to find a way to set my AIO fan curves to the liquid temperature of my NZXT Kraken X AIO though iCUE (I have Noctua fans). Any ideas?

I just need a good starting point for my fan curve.

I recently got a new set of fans for my PC with the goal of making it more quiet. The fans I had before were powered by a hub that didn't connect to my motherboard, so I had no control over the fan speed. As such, I hadn't messed with any fan curves on my PC until recently. After digging around in my BIOS for a while, I finally figured out how to set my chassis fan curve and decided to set it to the preset "Silent Mode" option. Manually lowering the fan speed past what that preset already does didn't seem to make the fans noticeably quieter. But that's just background information. The real reason I'm making this post is because of something I noticed while I was in BIOS. By default, my chassis fan curves are set to monitor my motherboard temps and respond to that. However, I also have the option to change it to monitor my CPU temp. I'm wondering which option would be more beneficial to use? Ideally, I'd want my chassis fans to respond to my GPU temp, since my GPU gets far hotter than my CPU does in games, but there doesn't seem to be an option to do so. I should also note that setting the chassis fan curve to silent mode hasn't impacted my CPU temps at all thus far. It still idles at 35°C with occasional spikes to around 42-45°C.

LTT fans I need your help!!!! I have 2 evga 1070 hybrids in sli. They are both running the same bios version, 86.04.3b.00.70. The drivers are 27.21.14.6109 One of the built in fans runs around 1070 rpm and the other runs at 6050 rpm I am using this 6050 rpm one as my main gpu. BTW both of them say they are at 28% fan speed even though the rpms are so different. I am using techpowerup gpu-z to see this. I have tried evga precision xoc, cupid, msi afterburner. I also installed a bios that evga sent me to put on them but nothing helps. I can't change the fan curve no matter what I try. I've had these cards for 2 years and it's always been this way its just so so so loud i can't take it. Please, please any advice besides get a better graphics card lol! Thank you!!!

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Cooler: CM Hyper T4 MB: MSI GAMING PLUS MAX My CPU temperature ranges between 60 and 70 degrees while gaming. It's very annoying when my CPU Fan ramps up to full speed and then instantly goes down during gaming. Is this a good Fan Curve to avoid CPU fan getting to 100% when hitting 70 degrees? (While being safe for the CPU of course)

Hello all! This is my very first time posting on the LTT forums! I'm a little anxious to be honest haha. Anyway, recently i rebuilt my entire computer in a Corsair 4000d airflow case, as my old case (some prebuilt case from CyberPower that looked like a knockoff NZXT case) had pretty poor airflow in my opinion (and experience). It only had a side intake that could only fit 2 120mm fans, and the fans it came with were some no name Apevia fans that were powered by Molex, so they always ran at the max RPM, which idk what was, but it sure wasn't fast, that much i can tell you. So I decided to rebuild my whole rig into the 4000d airflow since it was so popular and highly rated. I had a Corsair h150i Elite Cappelix 360mm AIO liquid cooler that I had to install in the front, because the top only supports 280mm radiator. I ended up buying some Corsair SP120mm RGB Elite fans to pair with the rad, as one of the ML120 elite fans that came with the AIO ended up breaking. So I mounted the rad in the front, with the fans in front of the rad pushing cool air in. Then I put the 2 functioning ML120 elite fans that came with the AIO on the top for exhaust, and I also put one of the black 120mm Air-Glide fans that came with the case onto the rear exhaust vent/grill. So overall, I have 3 intake and 3 exhaust. Now, my specs are a Ryzen 7 5800x, socketed under the AIO. My GPU is a PNY XLR8 3070 stock, no manufacturer OC or anything like that. Its a 3 fan, 2.7 slot design with 2 8 pin power connectors. Overall, I've found it to be an excellent card. Now herein lies the problem. I got this case because the previous one got fairly loud while running demanding AAA games, so with this case being praised for its good airflow and low temps, I figured I would get some of those same results. But alas, my luck is shit it seems, and the PC still gets fairly loud while playing a game like No Mans Sky on High detail. I've messed around with fan curves quite a bit, but I'm not experienced with doing that AT ALL. So I'm hoping i can get some help here in the best way to adjust my fan and GPU curves to give the best noise to temp ration possible. ATM I don't have any data graphs from HWinfo to post, but i can definitely post said data if needed. Please help a new computer enthusiast out, getting his newly built PC noise to thermal ratio to the best possible scenario! Also, I should note, I've built PCs in the past, but this was my first time building a new PC completely from the ground up, in a brand new, empty case. The last builds i did were mainly comprehensive upgrades toa prebuilt i had bought, but the OSU and fans and fans remained, and then i did a PSU swap, but this time i got to experience the full... well... experience!!! The moment I sealed up the case and pressed the power button, and it posted and booted into windows was soooo awesome hahahah. I was so proud lmao. Anyway, If someone can help me get my fan noise under control, I would really appreciate it. I want to become so well versed in computers that one day i can contribute a solution to posts on here Thanks for listening to the rant, and i hope you guys could possibly help a budding enthusiast out Cheers!

Basically I can't find a good custom fan curve for my Ryzen 9 cpu, and my RTX2070, just trying to find a balance between temps and fan noise to game comfortably

I recently just upgraded my pc to a 3080 12gb gaming z trio and a i712700k and i noticed that my pc is running pretty hot with fairly loud noise. I watched a couple of videos and done what they said using the Fan Control app found on github(i pretty much copied what jayztwocents did in his video on it), but i feel that it is still pretty hot with a very noticeable noise level. The image I provided is about what my pc is at idle a but during extreme load it can get much hotter, my PC specs are a 3080 12gb gaming z trio, i7 12700k, msi pro z690-p ddr4, using 4 of the 5 pack of deepcool rgb fans i found on amazon, ak620 cpu cooler, and a nzxt h510 case. Pls help, i dont really know what im doing when it comes to this fan curve stuff.

Hello, I built my first pc in the last few days (R5 5600, and 6700XT) but I've noticed the fans have been quite loud. My case is a Lian Li Lancool 216 and I also have a Deepcool AG400 cooling the CPU. I downloaded and have played around in MSI Dragon Center (Motherboard is an MSI b550m pro-vdh) to try to adjust the fan curves and I think they're at a better idle level and are much quieter, but as I'm kinda new to this I don't know how I should balance my two front intake fans with my rear exhaust fan, and if CPU fan speed affects this in any way. From what I can tell my bottom front fan should be slightly faster to both cool my GPU and make sure cool air is coming in from the bottom. I've also heard the whole "you should have slightly positive pressure for dust" or something like that but any help and advice would be appreciated because I don't want to have optimized cooling wrecking my performance for no reason. I'll attach images of what I have now as well as my Open Hardware Monitor temps just as I do this but I didn't think too much about it and just did it based on intuition and not actual knowledge. Thanks! Also sorry about if these become terrible to view when I submit I don't really use forums much.

Hey guys, I am currently trying to figure out appropriate fan curves for my CPU and case fans. Since I never adjusted any fan curves in my life I am a bit confused with all the available tutorials and thought I would try to get some advise. First of all, my specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER CPU fan: Be quiet! Dark Rock 4 Pro CPU Cooler Top Flow Processor Case fans: 1x beQuiet Pure Wing 2 (DC) 140mm / 900rpm to the back (exhaust), 2x beQuiet Pure Wing 2 (DC) 140mm / 900rpm to the top (exhaust), 2 x Noctua NF-P14s redux (PWM) 140mm/1500 rpm to the front (intake) Case: beQuiet pure base 500dx Motherboard (probably doesn't matter): MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk Temperatures (pretty much Idle): Please see screenshot attached for CPUID HWMonitor snippet Now, I have a couple questions regarding the custom fan curves, and please keep in mind that my goal is to have my fans run as quietly as possible without putting my performance (when gaming or other heavy tasks) and parts at any risk: Do I adjust the CPU fans curve aswell or just the case fans? Is it stupid to use so drastically different fans for intake/exhaust? I added the 2 Noctua fans while I kept the 3 Pure Wing 2 fans that came with the case, I heard that I want to have a bit higher intake than exhaust anyway, but is the difference of 3 x 900rpm exhaust to 2 x 1500 rpm intake too drastic? Also does it matter that the Noctua fans are PWM and the Pure Wings DC, and does it change anything when creating custom fan curves? Any recommendations on how to change the fan curves? I thought of using the BIOS but its quite annoying to test it that way, so I thought of using MSI center in order to do so, does anyone have any experiences with it? How can I figure out the right temperature? Most tutorials always argue that I should go by sound, but this seems not so logical to me since of course in order to have the most quiet rig ever I could just put the fan speed at 10% for all temps, but that would lead to a overheating system, so yea I am a bit helpless in figuring out the right %/temp constellation for the 4 dots... EDIT: 5. Can I connect one of the Noctua fans to PUMP or is that solely for water cooling fans? Thanks so much for your time, and I hope you guys can give me some advice or tutorial recommendations, that would be great!

Hello i have been having a minour problem lately and it has been stressing me tf out. Pretty much my case fans are at there default settings in the bios, but whenever i do a fan curve the system just doesnt want to listen, when im in the bios the fan curve works how it is suppose to but as soon as i launch into windows my fans are going up and down like crazy from 900rpm to 1400rpm. I know it is a minour issue but i want to do a custom fan curve. Any help will be appreciated

Hiii! this is my first topic on this forum, i apologize for the possible mistakes in english but it's not my native language ^^ Anyway i'm searching help for a fan curve, i made one myself but i'm not sure if it's good enough. This is my fan curve made on msi afterburner, i have a rx 580 armor, i5 4460, 8gb ram. and a seasonic focus 550 tell me if i forgot something. Anyway i made the fan curve after last night "accident", a friend of mine told me that i could put the fans at 100% speed always i didn't believe him but i wanted to try it out, To understand how it would act, and it really felt like it was going to explode. the noise it was making panicked me so much i unplugged the pc hahahaha. that's why i don't get over 85% fan speed. Now i would like to understand how a great fan curve it should be so i don't have to get anxious playing games. By the way, i tried the one i made on one game only (thief 2016), i know it's not demanding but i was in a hurry so i did it fast. The benchmark, which i didn't recorded or screenshotted sorry :/ showed me that the max temperature was 77 Celsius, with around 3500+ rpm on the fan (i don't know if it's a lot or not. i really don't know shit about it) and in percent was around 77/78. i read only that the gpu don't have to exceed 80 C, is it true? is my fan curve good or not, if not could you please suggest me one? thanks in advance, sorry for the english and if it's not the right topic section :/