FanControl, my take on a SpeedFan replacement

[Gottboost]

Ive found lately fancontrol to be laggy when opening and minimizing and i have no idea why

[MatsNorway]

 

Is it possible to make these boxes extendable so that i always see the objects added to it? Just a drag it taller type of deal. Currently its for surveillance only as the HDs should not run any fans normally. But that might chance if i observe any phunky buziness.

[Apple Tree]

I just got a 3060 TI Nvidia branded card --- without software, fan is zero rpm until 60 degrees, then if the fans get triggered, it'll shut itself off about 5 or so minutes if temps cool .... however, with FanControl, they won't shut off after that 5 or so minutes ... For each of the two fans, I paired it with a speed sensor and am running it to a curve I sent up.  Is there any solution to get my 3060 TI GPU fans controlled by this software?

 

They are stuck on "? 30 %"  (note the question mark on software) which the graph is telling it to be @ 0%.

[maka0]

Fantastic software, been using it for almost a year now.

 

Could anyone shed some light on if FanControl will take priority over MSI Afterburner for GPU fan curve?
If I not check "Enable user defined software automatic fan control" in MSI Afterburner, will it then use FanControl to control GPU fan speed.

 

Does anyone here have a Gigabyte RTX cards? I have a 3070 Gaming OC. I understand the fan speed limit of 30% though my card won't let me drop bellow 45%. Well one of the two GPU control will go just bellow 45% but other one when set bellow 45% will stop/start spin. I like to have my GPU fans spinning on idle. 

 

Also, PSU fan. Can that be controlled some how? I have Corsair RM750x

[MatsNorway]

Can we get a chance where peak temp(whatever temp you fixate on) is right below card name? Makes for a more consistent reading and priorities the most important info first. Card->temp target -> stuff in Card

[Kirti Rana]

first off. cool software. thanks op.

 

since i'm unable to get 0rpm gpu mode via fanconrtrol, i was wondering if there was a setting in fan control where in we can use 2 configuration.json where at gaming we can have fan control control both cpu/gpu in gaming mode json and a separate json for only control cpu in normal mode so we can get 0rpm on gpu?

 

thanks.

[AnoOdd]

Does FanControl support fans connected via the Corsair Commander Pro?

[Skiiwee29]

22 minutes ago, AnoOdd said:

Does FanControl support fans connected via the Corsair Commander Pro?

No. The fans need to be connected to the Motherboards Fan Headers. 

[GEORGE M99]

Apologies if this has already been answered; searched this thread extensively before posting.

 

First thanks to the OP for his awesome work on fancontrol.  Been using speedfan for many years and was looking for a replacement.

 

My question is doesn't fancontrol read SMART HDD temperatures?  I understand not many people use HDDs anymore but I have a few in my system and fancontrol only identifies NVMe temperatures.

Heres my device list when smartctl.exe is run. 

smartctl --scan


/dev/sda -d ata # /dev/sda, ATA device
/dev/sdb -d scsi # /dev/sdb, SCSI device
/dev/sdc -d nvme # /dev/sdc, NVMe device
/dev/sdd -d sat # /dev/sdd [SAT], ATA device
/dev/csmi1,0 -d ata # /dev/csmi1,0, ATA device
/dev/csmi1,3 -d ata # /dev/csmi1,3, ATA device
/dev/csmi1,4 -d ata # /dev/csmi1,4, ATA device
/dev/csmi1,5 -d ata # /dev/csmi1,5, ATA device
/dev/nvme0 -d nvme # /dev/nvme0, NVMe device

 

I have 3 HDDs in RAID5 plus an external HD and speedfan identifies all of them via smart

 

Am I doing something wrong?

 

Many thanks!

[Monsterkater]

On 2/15/2023 at 10:28 AM, GEORGE M99 said:

My question is doesn't fancontrol read SMART HDD temperatures?  I understand not many people use HDDs anymore but I have a few in my system and fancontrol only identifies NVMe temperatures.

 

When setting up the PC for my brother, FanControl didn't read the NVMe SSD's (Samsung 980 Pro 2TB) temperature sensors at all for some reason (yes, I enabled the "Storage" option in the sensor settings). All it read was the M.2 temp sensor from the motherboard, but that doesn't really help for NVMe controller temp.

 

So, what I did to circumvent this issue, is using the HWInfo plugin to report the sensor value to FanControl via HWInfo's "report to gadget" feature.

Keep in mind though that in order for this workaround to work, you need to have HWInfo running in the background at least in "sensors-only" mode, so if you can't or won't do that, this will not work for you.

 

Hope that helps!

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

11 hours ago, Monsterkater said:

you need to have HWInfo running in the background at least in "sensors-only" mode, so if you can't or won't do that, this will not work for you.

When using hwinfo in that way, you should also consider disabling monitoring for all sensors that you don't need/want. This will reduce the performance impact of leaving hwinfo running in the background.

[Teletha]

can it read temp sens from asus mobo if u have water temp sensor? does it also have UI support for showing Pump too. 

can this program replace the asus fan controller software for custom Watercooling?  does it have fan speed based on a temp sensor? 

[DerekZ]

Hi guys. Since the program was updated to version 147, I encountered a bug: every time I wake up the PC from suspension, the program returns to the foreground! I have to minimize it every time with X.. and since I put the pc to sleep several times a day it's getting annoying.
Could you fix? Thank you!!

[Monsterkater]

In v148 I encountered a (seemingly) new problem: Whenever my internet connection drops out for some reason, FanControl starts throwing an error message saying "An unexpected error has occured and has been added to the log file.", which by itself wouldn't be an issue.

However, I can't get rid of this message without re-starting FanControl. No matter which of the two buttons I click on, the message just re-appears instantly with FanControl becoming unresponsive altogether. I can't even close it by right-clicking the tray icon, I have to manually kill the process using Task Manager (oder taskkill in cmd) and re-start the application.

[GEORGE M99]

On 2/19/2023 at 5:49 PM, Monsterkater said:

 

So, what I did to circumvent this issue, is using the HWInfo plugin to report the sensor value to FanControl via HWInfo's "report to gadget" feature.

Keep in mind though that in order for this workaround to work, you need to have HWInfo running in the background at least in "sensors-only" mode, so if you can't or won't do that, this will not work for you.

 

Hope that helps!

More on smart temp monitoring HDDs. Quick Setup Guide

 

The above was a major pain to setup as the instructions were very unclear, at least for me.  Couldnt tell that you need an additional program that I've never used before.

 

For anyone reading, first you need the HWInfo program from here

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

 

Then you need the dll only (HWinfo plugin) from the quoted message above, get the zip and you only need the dll file

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.HWInfo/releases

 

You put the dll file in fancontrol\plugins folder.  Dont open fan control yet, forget it for now.

 

Open the HWinfo program, play with it a bit.  Open the sensors button and you need to click the cogwheel/configure, go to last tab, press "enable reporting to gadget" AND go to each HDD temp from the list, select it and click below "report value to gadget"
 

 

Save and close.  The HWInfo must be running before you start fan control.  Go to fancontrol settings and enable the HWInfo plugin (this dll does nothing more than read the values from HWinfo program)

 

If you're lucky you'll see the HDD temps in there, otherwise you'll get errors, save close and do refresh sensors detection from the menu.

 

All of this to get HDD temps?  And you obviously need to setup write batch file / scheduled tasks to make HWInfo start before fan control...  Not to mention that if you start fancontrol before HWInfo the config gets messed up...

 

Why not implement HDD SMART info in the fan control program directly?

 

Thanks to anyone contributing.

Edited March 9, 2023 by GEORGE M99

[Monsterkater]

2 hours ago, GEORGE M99 said:

And you obviously need to setup write batch file / scheduled tasks to make HWInfo start before fan control

You don't, actually. In HWInfo's settings there is a check box for starting with windows, check this. In FanControl then, there is a setting in the hamburger menu for starting automatically, below that is a delay setting in minutes. This will delay the start of FanControl by x minutes after Windows started. Just set this to two or three (or five) minutes, this should suffice to make sure FanControl starts only after HWInfo has started.

[testeras]

On 8/31/2019 at 9:01 PM, Rem0o said:

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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

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Tutorials:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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       TLDR

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I built a new custom UI on top of OpenHardwareMonitor with additional features, mainly linear fan curves with custom temperature sources.

 

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     STORY

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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

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AsRock H97M Pro 4
ASRock Steel Legend B450M

Asrock Z390 Mini-ITX

Asus Strix Z270G

Asus maximus ranger VIII 

ASUS MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z 
 

Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7

Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0)

Gigabyte X570 Gaming X

MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS

MSI Z390 Edge AC

MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX

MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max 

 

Enjo

[kristofferR]

Anyone have any good setups for 360mm AIO fans?

 

Currently I have a setup that is way too responsive - while it's kinda cool to immediately "hear" the load on the CPU it's also kinda annoying. What is the best way to make the fans spin up slower and be more gradual?

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

35 minutes ago, kristofferR said:

Anyone have any good setups for 360mm AIO fans?

 

Currently I have a setup that is way too responsive - while it's kinda cool to immediately "hear" the load on the CPU it's also kinda annoying. What is the best way to make the fans spin up slower and be more gradual?

There's a few different ways to do that. I like to create a new custom sensor that is a time-average of the one you are interested in.

[Rem0o]

@Hairless Monkey Boy has part of the solution. 

You also need to set slow ramp up/ramp down% on your controls.   You can also set a high hysteresis and response time on your graph/curve to avoid detecting small spikes all together. 

[kristofferR]

Could you perhaps share some screenshots? I have a hard time visualizing it.

[RevGAM]

16 hours ago, kristofferR said:

Could you perhaps share some screenshots? I have a hard time visualizing it.

Go into BIOS, Fan Control or whatever you use to control your fans and change the curve to a more sedate one...

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

17 hours ago, kristofferR said:

Could you perhaps share some screenshots? I have a hard time visualizing it.

I try to remember to get some for you when I'm home, but no promises.

[Rem0o]

@kristofferR

[RevGAM]

1 hour ago, Rem0o said:

@kristofferR

Great software!