Fan Control Software

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

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I'm currently using a Lamptron FC6 and it's great for controlling my 9 fans over 4 channels. However, I'd like to look at options for controlling the fans via software, with the ability to link certain fans to certain hardware temperatures. All my fans are 3-pin.

Anyone running this kind of setup? I've looked at Speedfan, but it's a bit cumbersome plus I'd like to power the fans from a separate controller powered from the PSU.
 
Speedfan is about the most over complicated piece of crap I've ever seen, why has nobody made a simple little fan control GUI, surely it's not that difficult?
 
I have used Speedfan for a couple of years to run my case fans based off my GPU temperatures. However, Speedfan doesn't support my new motherboard (Z97X Gaming 5) so I bought the NZXT Grid+ do the same job via NZXT's CAM software. It works almost perfectly for what I need, and looks to almost meet your needs, but it actually only runs each fan at the same speed percentage, so you would need to ramp up all of your fans when you want to increase one.

Maybe you could offload some fans onto the Grid+ and run them based on CPU or GPU temp, then keep a couple of fans on the motherboard and use Speedfan to control them? Not ideal, but I couldn't find any other software fan controllers other than Speedfan when I was looking last week.

The main annoyance I have with the Grid+ is actually with the CAM software - you can only set temperature/fan speed points every 10C, and it doesn't interpolate between them. In other words, I can set 50C to be 40% and 60C to be 100%, but cannot set anything inbetween which means if the temp goes 59C-60C-59C, the fans actually 40%-100%-40%, which is not ideal. Still hoping this is fixed by a software update at some point, but I can live with it for now.
 
Thanks, Stu. I take it you mean the unit I've linked to below?

I wouldn't mind all fans increasing at the same time, but they would have to be triggered on an either/or basis. That is, say for example I set all fans to be running at 50% on idle, could they all be ramped up to 75% :

- IF the GPU goes above a certain temp
- OR the CPU goes up above a certain temp
- OR both increase...

Is that how it works?

The lack of speed curve doesn't sound too great. I wouldn't want them jumping from 50% to 100% every 5 seconds, but I assume you can have a sweet spot where they ramp up and stay there until you stop encoding or gaming or whatever has caused the increased load?

Finally, how many fans can the Grid+ handle? Is 30 watt enough for say 10 fans?

YOUR BASKET
1 x NZXT Grid +, 6-pin Fan Distributor With CAM control software £19.99
Total : £25.97 (includes shipping : £4.98).

 
I'm also looking for some fan control software. I'm using AI suite 3 at the moment which has some software. I need to play with it a bit more but I'd like something simpler.
 
personally i find speedfan really good.

yes the gui is crap. but once you follow a good guide a learn how to use it, then its great.

i don't need a flashy gui like most mobo manufacturers try and make. just something that does exactly what i want
 
Hope you don't mind the thread revival but little point in starting another thread for a simple question. After a recent Windows update, Speedfan hangs the system when opened. Can someone else recommend an alternative please? I just simply to be able to turn the fan speed down in Windows which was a breeze with Speedfan.

EDIT - it's had a change of heart.
 
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