Looking for a simple fan speed utility

Logical Ron said:

You said in your first post "Why not continue with the BIOS setting to control the fans after upgrading from Windows 10 to 11?" So I thought you were thinking I was still on Win 11 as that is what you said, nothing about going back to Win 10.

I found a software, the one I posted a YouTube video in the first few posts of the thread, so far it seems to be working exactly how I wanted. I have one small issue that I will contact the them and ask about it but I think this thread can be closed. If anyone else is looking for a fan controller I would take a look at "fan Control"

GitHub - Rem0o/FanControl.Releases: This is the release repository for Fan Control, a highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.

Ok. Fan controller, I think, it was recommended to me in this forum, but my motherboard is too old, it doesn't work or I haven't tested it, I don't know. I'm going to make a new build soon, I'll see if I need a fan controller.

Logical Ron said:

I'd like to get a fan speed utility to control fan speeds of all my system fans. I've been looking at many but most have a ton more features than I want or understand. Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple utility that will do the job, show me the speeds of all system fans without getting too overboard in features.

Thanks in advance

Just a shot in the Dark why haven't you used MSI utility to do the very thing you need ?
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solarstarshines said:

Just a shot in the Dark why haven't you used MSI utility to do the very thing you need ?
You have a Z790 Tomahawk MSI Global - The Leading Brand in High-end Gaming & Professional Creation

Simple answer is I didn't know MSI had that. I did install Fan Control and if anyone is using that utility I would appreciate some help with a few things. I have no curves setup on Fan Control yet I set the curves in my bios.

I don't use my system for anything that pushes it very hard at all. I'm thinking I could have slower fan speeds and still cool my system enough but I don't know enough about this subject to make my choices. Hoping someone uses Fan Control and can give me some suggestions.

Also My GPU has 3 fans but Fan Control is only showing 2?

Here are a few screenshots to show you what my fans are running at now and also what temps my CPU are at. Hopefully with that into someone might be able to help me decide if I can lower the fan speeds to make the system quieter but yet keep it cool enough.

Logical Ron said:

Simple answer is I didn't know MSI had that. I did install Fan Control and if anyone is using that utility I would appreciate some help with a few things. I have no curves setup on Fan Control yet I set the curves in my bios.

I don't use my system for anything that pushes it very hard at all. I'm thinking I could have slower fan speeds and still cool my system enough but I don't know enough about this subject to make my choices. Hoping someone uses Fan Control and can give me some suggestions.

Also My GPU has 3 fans but Fan Control is only showing 2?

Here are a few screenshots to show you what my fans are running at now and also what temps my CPU are at. Hopefully with that into someone might be able to help me decide if I can lower the fan speeds to make the system quieter but yet keep it cool enough.

Sorry for the late reply chances are it's not connected to a pwm header but it's still running

solarstarshines said:

Sorry for the late reply chances are it's not connected to a pwm header but it's still running

Sorry to sound so dumb but what is a pwm? also the GPU is in slot and is powered by a 8 pin connector. I've never had a GPU that has any other connections?


If anyone can reply about my fan Control app I woud appreciate it I would like to set curves to control all the fans as they are needed. I think some are running too fast, as you can see from my system temps above it runs cool I never really put much of a load on it. I just don't understand how or what % the fans should be running.

I've watched the videos on YouTbe about the fan control but everyone talks so fast to make the videos shorter and most terms I am not aware of. new to controlling fans on a PC, never done it before always let the MB handle that as needed.

Logical Ron said:

Sorry to sound so dumb but what is a pwm? also the GPU is in slot and is powered by a 8 pin connector. I've never had a GPU that has any other connections?


If anyone can reply about my fan Control app I woud appreciate it I would like to set curves to control all the fans as they are needed. I think some are running too fast, as you can see from my system temps above it runs cool I never really put much of a load on it. I just don't understand how or what % the fans should be running.

I've watched the videos on YouTbe about the fan control but everyone talks so fast to make the videos shorter and most terms I am not aware of. new to controlling fans on a PC, never done it before always let the MB handle that as needed.

Basically the 4 pin fan header gives a direct line for fan control you should have about 3-4 4-pin slots you can also control the speeds in bios
Gpu is a separate situation you would need a gpu app like Afterburner

solarstarshines said:

Basically the 4 pin fan header gives a direct line for fan control you should have about 3-4 4-pin slots you can also control the speeds in bios
Gpu is a separate situation you would need a gpu app like Afterburner

Not sure what is going on I am not getting email notifications even though I have it selected for this thread??

I'm not 100% sure but I think my case fans are 3 pin, they are older fans and the 2 that came with my CPU cooler are 4 pin.

I'm still having problems figuring out Fan Control Originally I created 2 curves a CPU curve and a GPU curve and a Mix of the 2 curve. I then assigned my case fans to that mix curve. When I do that my fans are running faster and the system is louder. When I toggle off the CPU so fan Control isn't controlling it my CPU fan speed goes down from 47% to 29%. I think my CPU temps are fine at 29%

If someone who uses Fan Control can help me understand what settings are best for a cool and quiet system I would appreciate it very much. Here are some screenshots the first one is my current CPU temps then Fan Control controlling all fans and the last one is with CPU disabled in fan Control, these are temps when I am streaming Tv on my computer.

Obviously I want my system to run cool but I also want it to be quiet but don't understand enough about what min and max temps should be and also not getting fan control to work without it making my fan speeds going up which mean louder system.