Fan Speed Control?

[Psittac]

How does everyone control their fan speed?  I used to have speedfan but last time I tried it something wasn't right.

 

I'm on an all AMD system with a gigabyte mb

[Aleph256]

FanControl.

[johnt]

Motherboard? What's wrong with silent profile?

[GoldenWolf]

20 minutes ago, Psittac said:

How does everyone control their fan speed?  I used to have speedfan but last time I tried it something wasn't right.

 

I'm on an all AMD system with a gigabyte mb

You can in your bios (at least you can on my pc) if you have a pre-built it should come with software that lets you control them if you built it yourself you can find software online that will let you control them. 

[Psittac]

27 minutes ago, johnt said:

Motherboard? What's wrong with silent profile?

It wasn't working for some reason

 

21 minutes ago, GoldenWolf said:

You can in your bios (at least you can on my pc) if you have a pre-built it should come with software that lets you control them if you built it yourself you can find software online that will let you control them. 

yeah that wasn't doing it

 

31 minutes ago, Aleph256 said:

FanControl.

That is the program I used a while ago, somehow my fan profiles didn't go away after a reinstall of Win, potentially twice.  Just a loud arse computer.  I finally figure all that was left was an OS reinstall but she's a noisy one even after that.  I did afterburner to see if it was the gpu and it wasn't, so here I am.  Already have a quieter system during setup of fancontrol.

 

I really don't know the inner workings of why it stayed so noisy, even after silent mode in uefi, but it was.  Some kind of ghost in the machine I guess.

 

Thank you all for the input and solutions

 

*oh thank baby jeebus, it's quiet in here now.  It's been easily over a year of that drone.  Just been to lazy to fix it.  Now my aquarium is the only thing making noise

[kirashi]

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[Skiiwee29]

I use to use Fan Control until it started getting flagged by windows as a virus due to how windows changed kernel level access to programs. I now use Argus Monitor. yes its paid software, but its excellent and has a ton of features in it. Feels like HWInfo on steroids to me. 

[GuiltySpark_]

BIOS. Flat / static curve until the danger zone. Doesn't need to be any more complicated and the less software to run the better.

[StDragon]

2 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

I use to use Fan Control until it started getting flagged by windows as a virus due to how windows changed kernel level access to programs. I now use Argus Monitor. yes its paid software, but its excellent and has a ton of features in it. Feels like HWInfo on steroids to me. 

No longer a security issue. Rémi (the dev) already updated Fan Control to use PawnIO.

 

[kitnoman]

I had Argus monitor, but had to stop using it as the latest version I can get, had at the time had issues with windows. I don't know what windows update cause it, but it stop reporting the gpu sensors and fans. I would have bought another license to be able to update it to the one with the fix, but I found the free Fan Control a year back, so started using it when I got the the issue with the version of Argus my license is allowed to use. 

 

On 12/29/2025 at 8:29 AM, GuiltySpark_ said:

BIOS. Flat / static curve until the danger zone. Doesn't need to be any more complicated and the less software to run the better.

The less software argument is fair, but 3rd party tools like Fan Control (GitHub) or Argus Monitor solve a specific hardware limitation, BIOS is 'blind' to the GPU.
 

In most BIOS setups, your case fans only react to the CPU temp. If you’re playing a GPU-heavy game where the CPU stays cool, your case fans will sit at an idle crawl while your GPU chokes on its own hot air because there's no fresh intake. These apps allow you to create a Mix Sensor, telling case fans to follow the CPU or the GPU—whichever is hotter.
 

Crucially, these specific apps are extremely lightweight. Unlike the heavy, 'buggy' utility apps from motherboard or gpu brands, which are resource hog and did I mention buggy. Fan Control and Argus, for example, uses very little, while running in the tray. You’re actually removing bloatware by replacing those manufacturer suites with one tiny, efficient app that handles everything.

[Psittac]

For my own update, I think that it's possible the "silent" profile wasn't very silent.  My case is the Fractal Torrent and I'm sure that what my mb thinks is silent will be noisy.  I wasn't thorough in my testing, rather just a lingering thought.  I now have the fans set to 10% and everything stays nice and cool while being dead silent given my already high noise floor with the aquarium.

[GuiltySpark_]

1 hour ago, kitnoman said:

GPU chokes on its own hot air because there's no fresh intake.

Seems like a case limitation 

 

 

Never had this particular issue even when the case fans are at their static 40% PWM and the GPU is pulling 400W+. Card stays a nice and consistent 60-65c. No unnecessary and complex mixed curves needed.

 

33 minutes ago, Psittac said:

For my own update, I think that it's possible the "silent" profile wasn't very silent.  My case is the Fractal Torrent and I'm sure that what my mb thinks is silent will be noisy.  I wasn't thorough in my testing, rather just a lingering thought.  I now have the fans set to 10% and everything stays nice and cool while being dead silent given my already high noise floor with the aquarium.

As you can see, same case. 

 

No presets, just 40% PWM for every fan in the case. Every single one. Ramp to 60% if the CPU hits 85 and (for 7800x3D) 100% if 89c is reached (that never happens). Hell, only ever touches 60% during long CPU multicore tasks which in games, is only occasionally during shader shader compilation. 99% of the time I can't hear a thing.

 

KISS method reigns supreme.

 

Big fans turning slowly in an open air case is great.

 

[Psittac]

7 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Seems like a case limitation 

 

 

Never had this particular issue even when the case fans are at their static 40% PWM and the GPU is pulling 400W+. Card stays a nice and consistent 60-65c. No unnecessary and complex mixed curves needed.

 

As you can see, same case. 

 

No presets, just 40% PWM for every fan in the case. Every single one. Ramp to 60% if the CPU hits 85 and (for 7800x3D) 100% if 89c is reached (that never happens). Hell, only ever touches 60% during long CPU multicore tasks which in games, is only occasionally during shader shader compilation. 99% of the time I can't hear a thing.

 

KISS method reigns supreme.

 

Big fans turning slowly in an open air case is great.

 

Agreed on all accounts, what get's me is that after a new install it was still screaming like a banshee.  Even on "silent" in the uefi.

 

I really can't recount the order of operations but I know for a fact at least one re-install was performed.  I've had this case on two builds and when I used fancontrol and when I reinstalled previously are a mystery.  I just know that a few day's ago I did a reset and the fans were screaming.  Even now when I shut down or start up the computer the fans get pretty loud until the fancontrol software kicks in.