Is SpeedFan reliable?

CosminGCole · 2 Nov 2014 at 00:25

I'm just wondering about speedfan, is this thing reliable ? Does it actually read the correct temperatures or averages randomly

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Also, can someone tell me what Temp1,2,3 are and all that ? Are those different locations on the motherboard?

Doomedspeed · 2 Nov 2014 at 05:26

Speedfan is pretty good, I tend to use HWmonitor though. Both shoid be as reliable as the information is taken fro the BIOS.

Core temp is another good programme to keep track of the CPU.

I think temps 1-3 are motherboard temps, though exactly what/or even why/if there measuring is beyond me, and more than likely massively unimportant.

Hope I helped.

CosminGCole · 2 Nov 2014 at 13:39

You did help a little

Cheers for the confirmation.

I shall get HWmonitor as well.

CosminGCole · 2 Nov 2014 at 13:48

Something tells me this is not working quite well for me

EDIT: Nevermind, I just had to run it as an administrator

derp

Craig321 · 2 Nov 2014 at 13:50

CosminGCole said:
I'm just wondering about speedfan, is this thing reliable ? Does it actually read the correct temperatures or averages randomly ?

Also, can someone tell me what Temp1,2,3 are and all that ? Are those different locations on the motherboard?

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I never have trusted Speedfan. I don't think I've seen one machine where the temp isn't in the minuses or in the hundreds of degrees. You can adjust the sensors so you might be able to make it reliable, but out of the box it isn't good.

HWMonitor on the other hand has been reliable most of the time.

CosminGCole · 2 Nov 2014 at 13:55

Craig321 said:
I never have trusted Speedfan. I don't think I've seen one machine where the temp isn't in the minuses or in the hundreds of degrees. You can adjust the sensors so you might be able to make it reliable, but out of the box it isn't good.

HWMonitor on the other hand has been reliable most of the time.

Yea I must agree with you, SpeedFan, looks a bit "fake" just by looking at it, temps are just going up and down randomly, I just downloaded HWmonitor now and indeed, it has much more information and it looks more legit.

Is there any way I can have HWmonitor to show the temps in the start bar ? somehow?

Craig321 · 2 Nov 2014 at 14:00

You could try http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

Looks identical to HWMonitor but is open source and includes temp output in your task tray.

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Not sure if it's any good though, doesn't look like it's updated anymore.

james.miller · 2 Nov 2014 at 14:04

speedfan reads minus figures because its reading every possible sensor configuration for your chipset, this includes sensors that arent connected (which normally show as -127c or something like that).

speedfan does need some setting up but ones its done its as reliable as any other software.

CosminGCole · 2 Nov 2014 at 15:16

You could try http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

Looks identical to HWMonitor but is open source and includes temp output in your task tray.

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Not sure if it's any good though, doesn't look like it's updated anymore.

This would be nice but as you said, seems to be a quite old version so I'll just stick with HW. Not such a big deal not having temps in my start bar.

speedfan reads minus figures because its reading every possible sensor configuration for your chipset, this includes sensors that arent connected (which normally show as -127c or something like that).

speedfan does need some setting up but ones its done its as reliable as any other software.

You do have a point but tbh, speedfan is a bit confusing to set up from my point of view

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Also, +1 for your signature

bloodkil · 5 Nov 2014 at 18:15

I've never had any issues with SpeedFan, but I'd prefer HWinfo or Aida64 for that kind of thing.

ginjaninja · 6 Nov 2014 at 16:35

wether speedfan or hwmonitor..
is it correct to say that you can use these softwares to read all sensors in the pc (both motherboard and gpu) to build a fan profile for Case and CPU PWM fans.....
(on asus x99-s)
ie for given temperatures across sensors change the speed of fans connected to the motherboard cpu and chasis pwm headers...(ie avoid need for fan controller)

would any pwm fan do (in terms of the ability to control it with speedfan/configure a responsive profile)

if yes...are there any rules of thumb people can share for configuring profiles..
im looking for silence at idle and 4.5ghz 5820k cpu overclock...no gpu overclock...at load...in a cosmos ii (large case with 10 sata hdds)