A small application that shows you fan speed, voltage and chip temperature
Monitoring hardware temperatures is necessary procedure for many users and it is carried out on a daily basis by most of them, in order to maintain and protect the health of the system. What's more, by tweaking various voltage and temperature parameters, excessive heat can be restrained from damaging your system.
SpeedFan was crafted for this purpose in particular. It monitors temperatures from various sources, allowing you to adjust the speed fans based on the degrees Celsius that your hardware indicates. The program also has the capability to monitor S.M.A.R.T. readings for EIDE, SATA and SCSI hard disks and RAID controllers.
Installing SpeedFan is a simple operation that requires only a couple of seconds. Its tabbed interface allows you to view the information in categories, while the system tray indicator displays the temperatures from the hard disk and cores.
SpeedFan also shows the CPU usage and allows you to configure the fan and voltage settings in according with the detected temperatures. In addition, it offers you the possibility to adjust the processor clock values based on various usage scenarios.
The S.M.A.R.T. feature performs an in-depth analysis on your hard disk and reports various indicators of reliability, thus enabling you to anticipate system failures.
Also worth mentioning is the section that generates charts, thus allowing you to better visualize the temperature, fan speeds and voltages of your hard disk and cores.
All in all, SpeedFan offers you extensive CPU and hard-disk temperature info and enables you to control fan speeds for the proper functioning of your computer hardware.
As a side note, SpeedFan is mostly an application for the power user, because its configuration is complex and can mislead those less experienced.
The main viewing purpose of SpeedFan is to show its user what's really going in their machine. When minimized, a temperature reading is showed on the button right of the desktop. When Speedfan is in an open window you can see a whole lot more. From Fan speed to total voltage, you can view any and all of the current fans.
First of all, you have to identify which temperature sensor is which. SpeedFan strictly adheres to available datasheets for each sensor chip. Please remember that hardware monitors are chips that do have some pins (small connectors) which should be connected to some additional hardware (temperature probes, thermistors or thermocouples) in order to be able to read temperatures.
Only a few hardware monitor chips do label their connectors with "CPU", "System" and the like. Most of them use labels like "Temp1", "Local" or "Remote". The hardware manufacturers connect available pins to different temperature sensors basically according to the physical placement of components on the motherboard.
This means that the same chip, an ITE IT8712F, for example, might be connected to a sensor diode measuring CPU temperature on Temp2 and, on a different hardware, it might be connected on Temp1. If you have a "Local" sensor and a "Remote" labeled one, this usually means that "Local" is the temperature of the monitor chip itself and "Remote" is the temperature read from a "remote" probe.
When you have properly identified which temperature sensor is which, try to lower the speed of each fan and look at reported speed and temperatures. If you do not allow SpeedFan to change any fan speed and set all the speeds too low, then SpeedFan won't be able to avoid overheating.
SpeedFan was crafted for this purpose in particular. It monitors temperatures from various sources, allowing you to adjust the speed fans based on the degrees Celsius that your hardware indicates. The program also has the capability to monitor S.M.A.R.T. readings for EIDE, SATA and SCSI hard disks and RAID controllers.
Installing SpeedFan is a simple operation that requires only a couple of seconds. Its tabbed interface allows you to view the information in categories, while the system tray indicator displays the temperatures from the hard disk and cores.
SpeedFan also shows the CPU usage and allows you to configure the fan and voltage settings in according with the detected temperatures. In addition, it offers you the possibility to adjust the processor clock values based on various usage scenarios.
The S.M.A.R.T. feature performs an in-depth analysis on your hard disk and reports various indicators of reliability, thus enabling you to anticipate system failures.
Also worth mentioning is the section that generates charts, thus allowing you to better visualize the temperature, fan speeds and voltages of your hard disk and cores.
All in all, SpeedFan offers you extensive CPU and hard-disk temperature info and enables you to control fan speeds for the proper functioning of your computer hardware.
As a side note, SpeedFan is mostly an application for the power user, because its configuration is complex and can mislead those less experienced.
The main viewing purpose of SpeedFan is to show its user what's really going in their machine. When minimized, a temperature reading is showed on the button right of the desktop. When Speedfan is in an open window you can see a whole lot more. From Fan speed to total voltage, you can view any and all of the current fans.
First of all, you have to identify which temperature sensor is which. SpeedFan strictly adheres to available datasheets for each sensor chip. Please remember that hardware monitors are chips that do have some pins (small connectors) which should be connected to some additional hardware (temperature probes, thermistors or thermocouples) in order to be able to read temperatures.
Only a few hardware monitor chips do label their connectors with "CPU", "System" and the like. Most of them use labels like "Temp1", "Local" or "Remote". The hardware manufacturers connect available pins to different temperature sensors basically according to the physical placement of components on the motherboard.
This means that the same chip, an ITE IT8712F, for example, might be connected to a sensor diode measuring CPU temperature on Temp2 and, on a different hardware, it might be connected on Temp1. If you have a "Local" sensor and a "Remote" labeled one, this usually means that "Local" is the temperature of the monitor chip itself and "Remote" is the temperature read from a "remote" probe.
When you have properly identified which temperature sensor is which, try to lower the speed of each fan and look at reported speed and temperatures. If you do not allow SpeedFan to change any fan speed and set all the speeds too low, then SpeedFan won't be able to avoid overheating.
Here are some key features of "SpeedFan":
· handle almost any number of South Bridges
· handle almost any number of hardware monitor chips
· handle almost any number of temperature readings
· handle almost any number of voltage readings
· handle almost any number of fan speed readings
· handle almost any number of PWMs
· handle almost any number of South Bridges
· handle almost any number of hardware monitor chips
· handle almost any number of temperature readings
· handle almost any number of voltage readings
· handle almost any number of fan speed readings
· handle almost any number of PWMs
What's New in This Release:
- fixed a typo that caused ACPI temperatures to be reported wrongly on some Windows 7
- changed the name of the installer to improve compatibility with Windows 8
| Publisher | : | Alfredo Milani-Comparetti |
|---|---|---|
| License | : | Freeware |
| Size/OS: | : | 2 MB / Windows All |
Download | : | SpeedFan 4.49 |
