Cooler management program. What programs are suitable for cooling a laptop?

SpeedFan is a program that monitors the state of your computer. The utility provides real-time data on cooler rotation speed, processor temperature, power supply voltage and other important parameters. Among other things, the program is able to identify current system problems, show graphs for various indicators, and also control the rotation speed of all fans.

The main tab is “Indicators”. All the most important information on the system is collected there. For convenience, icons are used to warn of an increase or decrease in temperature. The fire icon indicates a critical condition, but many devices can operate at fairly high temperatures. Therefore, you should not be alarmed prematurely, but it is better to look at the technical data sheet to find out the exact range. A little lower is the cooler rotation speed control unit.

A separate section is devoted to S.M.A.R.T technology for the selected hard drive. Essentially, these are 2 types of tests - extended and short. After running any of them, information about errors, if any, will appear in the status column. There are 3 icons to display the status of a particular attribute: a green one with the inscription “OK”, a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark and a red “Stop” sign with a white stripe. The first means that everything is fine with the attribute, the second - the attribute is close to the threshold value, the third - a critical case.

The default language is English. However, it can be changed to Russian through the “Indicators” tab → “Configuration” button → “Options” → “Language”. It is worth considering that tips and some parameters and all attributes from the S.M.A.R.T section will remain in English. So, RPM stands for the number of revolutions per minute of your fan. But most of the text in the program was still Russified.

SpeedFan allows you to display important indicators of your computer's health. However, the main function of this program is to monitor the cooling of the entire system and directly all available coolers. This utility will be very useful for preventing breakdowns when the hardware overheats.

This material is relevant for both laptops and regular computers. To adjust the speed, we use 2 programs, and at the end there will be a small list of the main problems that may interfere with speed control. The solutions found are attached.

CPU cooling control

We use Speedfan (Download).

After launching the program, in a few seconds it will collect information about all found coolers in the system and display it in a list. We are interested in 2 blocks:

In the first, we are shown the number of revolutions per minute, in the second - the available regulators for them. The program automatically quite accurately determines where the fan is, so it can find and sign some (CPU - processor, and GPU - graphics) itself.

But this is the best option. The picture may be the same as in the screenshot below. In this case, 3 unknowns and a GPU are available for control. If you know which cooler you have the most noise, then you can simply change the values of each Pwm until you hear a difference in noise.

In my case, the CPU allegedly does not have a cooler, but there is some unknown Fan2 (by the way, identical to CHASSIS, i.e. motherboard). This is due to the fact that I have a fan that does not support software speed control. Why this is so and what to do is at the end of the article.

Please note: the percentage value you set will be constant both when idle and under any load.

If you want these options to take effect immediately after Windows starts, check the corresponding box in the Configure → Options section:

Adjusting video card coolers (MSI Afterburner)

The utility is “tailored” only for video cards, so there is only one slider responsible for fan speed. By default it works in automatic mode and to start working it must be disabled:

When the desired value is set, click “Apply”. In the right window there is a monitor that displays changes on a graph, so you can see changes in , rotation speed as a percentage and revolutions.

If desired, the settings in this program can also be enabled when Windows starts. To do this, check the box:

But these are only the main functions of the program. There is an option here with which you can specify at what speed and at what temperature the video card cooler should run. Yes, the previous program also has it, but Afterburner is easier to understand.

Go to Settings → Cooler
Click "Enable Auto Mode"

In the graph that appears, the vertical indicates the rotation speed as a percentage, and the horizontal indicates the temperature. Left-click on any part of the green line to create additional refraction points. You can drag them and thereby set the desired values. By clicking “OK”, the changes take effect and now the regulator is highlighted green in the main window.

If you want to disable these settings, just click the “User Define” button.

Why don't the methods work and what can be done?

In the case of a desktop PC, most often the CPU cooler setting may not work.

Coolers have different connectors for connection: 3-Pin and 4-Pin (PWM). It is the latter that allow you to control the speed through programs, but the three-pin ones do not. Personally, I found out about this when I replaced my old cooler (4-pin PWM) with a new one (3-pin) and discovered that for some reason it could not be configured through the same Speedfan, although before everything was fine. Therefore, take this point into account when choosing a cooling system for your processor.

If we are talking about a laptop, then there are 2 options:

The manufacturer himself could block the opportunity - there is nothing to be done about it.
Laptops not intended for gaming have one cooler common to the processor and video card. The same applies to the graphics built into processors (the same Intel HD Graphics). In such cases it is useless to use

Conclusion

Owners of desktop PCs are in the best position: if the processor cooler is not adjustable, replacement will be cheap. There are even fewer problems with video cards. Among laptops, gaming ones have the best chance, average-priced “office” graphics are a lottery, but owners of integrated graphics will most likely be disappointed.

The heart of the laptop is the processor, which increases the amount of energy released under heavy loads. Processes directly affect the motherboard, laptop case, and video card. Overheating of equipment threatens to break parts and fail at the most inopportune moment. A special program for cooling a laptop helps to avoid breakdowns, overheating, and increasing the number of revolutions of the cooler, which is responsible for cooling the entire system.

Laptop fan control

Manufacturers set a standard cooler rotation speed, which must maintain normal operating temperature inside the laptop. It is impossible to foresee all the subtleties of using equipment and the load that the user will give. In this regard, temperatures often reach critical levels, which becomes dangerous for the laptop. This is especially true in the summer, when the cooling system cannot cope with its tasks.

The situation can be changed by increasing the fan speed. You can control the cooler yourself using one of the following methods:

Making settings to the operating system.
Making settings in the BIOS.
Using special programs to cool the cooler.

Before making changes to the fan control system, it is the user's responsibility to check the condition of the inside of the laptop. An increase in temperature often occurs due to the accumulation of dust, hair, pet fur, and pieces of dirt. If cleaning the laptop does not help, then independent management of the operating system, BIOS, or installing a program to increase the speed of the cooler will help.

OS Settings

A user who seeks to change the manufacturer's factory settings must take into account the following fact - the speed of rotation of the fan blades affects the noise level that the laptop produces. Increasing the cooler speed will cause an increase in fan hum. Another consequence of changing the standard parameters of the cooler will be a decrease in energy performance and battery life of the laptop. This effect will also occur if WINDOWS was reinstalled incorrectly or the drivers were upgraded incorrectly.

Similar utilities are produced by Intel and Microsoft, which have the same installation and configuration principles. When deciding to use applications, it is worth remembering their energy consumption and increased noise.

How to set up BIOS

Every user can enter the BIOS system, but it is recommended to do this only if the user understands the BIOS and the features of the operating system. The step-by-step steps for BIOS settings are as follows:

During the system boot process, press the Del button. In some cases you have to press f8 or f2.
Go to the menu section called Power.
The HW Monitor configuration menu will open. There is a function here that allows you to increase the speed of the cooler. The name may contain words such as fan, speed, control.
Having selected the desired option, the user must press the Enter button on it.
Set the Enable parameter.
Activate Profile, which will display a menu with various options for the system operating mode.
Select the Turbo or Performance profile.
Save settings.
Reboot the laptop.

As a result of simple manipulations in the BIOS, the fan operation will begin to be regulated every time the system boots. The cooler will spin at the set speeds, which will cause an increase in noise levels, but will reduce overheating of the laptop.

TOP best programs for fan control

Various utilities are created in order not to change the cooling system, not to make changes to the BIOS settings, not to change any elements in the cooler. Most of the applications released are free and do not take up much space on your hard drive. Such utilities control the cooler, increasing its speed.

You can regulate the rotation speed of the cooler blades using programs such as:

SpeedFan application. The utility is free, you need to download and install it on your laptop, then run it. A graph of the system temperature will appear. You need to select a laptop element whose temperature is higher than normal. After this, press the “up” button several times and select the optimal parameter that will allow you to lower the temperature. The program cannot be closed so that the process of adjusting the fan operation is not completed.
AMD OverDrive utility. Installed with the main software package provided by AMD. When the installation takes place, the application starts. In the main menu there is a Fan Control section, and there is a Performance Control sub-item. Here are the sliders that control the rotation speed of the fan blades. You need to click on one slider, bringing its value to the mark from 70% to 100%. You must save the value using the Apply button, then going to the Preferences section. There you need to select “Settings” and activate the “My latest changes in settings” item, click on “ok” and close the program. During each system boot, the application will adjust the fan speed.
Riva Tuner. This is a product from Intel, which is characterized by ease of use, ease of installation and fan control. The program is suitable for Windows of any version. After downloading and installing Riva Tuner, the user launches the utility and goes to the “Advanced Settings” section. Next, you need to find the Fan sub-item, moving the sliders there to the desired values, which are expressed as a percentage. When the parameters are selected, then the settings are saved by pressing the “ok” button. After this, all changes will take effect and the cooler will spin at higher speeds.
MSI Afterburner. Produced by MSI, the utility is designed to overclock the cooler to the required speeds. The application is used on equipment from AMD and Intel. The advantage of this program is that all the necessary parameters and settings are located in the main menu in the first window that opens after installation. The fan speed increases if you move the slider to the right in the Fan Speed section. There is also an automatic setting function that allows you to change the speed of the cooler depending on the loads placed on the video card.

The user chooses independently which method to choose to regulate the fan speed and reduce the heating level of the laptop. If you do not understand the settings, then you should not make changes manually. The best option is to install a utility that will protect the system from overheating.

Today we will talk about coolers. The term “cooler” was formed by transcribing the English word “cooler”, which translated means “cooler”. To put it simply, a cooler is a regular fan used to cool the central processor, video card, power supply and other heating elements of the computer.

The cooler has one unpleasant side - they make noise during operation. And the more coolers your PC uses, the more noise they make. In this article, we will look at how to simply and effectively reduce the noise produced by a fan.

Why are coolers noisy?

If you do not take into account special fanless modifications, then each computer has two or more coolers. As mentioned earlier, this can be a cooler on the processor, on the graphics accelerator, in the power supply, as well as fans installed on the side and rear walls of the system unit case. And each of the listed fans creates a separate noise, and together it sometimes turns into a rather unpleasant hum. Some PC users have simply gotten used to this noise in their system unit and do not pay attention to it, believing that such a hum is in the order of things and nothing can be fixed. But there is good news! In 98% of cases, the noise from computer fans can be reduced by at least 10%, and at most by 90%.

As you may have guessed, the noise level in a working fan depends mainly on its rotation speed. As the rotation speed decreases, the cooler noise also decreases. Fortunately for us, there are wonderful programs with which you can easily control coolers by changing their rotation speed. Of course, you can reduce the fan noise by replacing it with a more expensive and low-noise analogue. However, such a replacement will not always give the expected effect, proportional to the money spent. Therefore, we will consider a less radical way to reduce noise, which is a program for adjusting the speed of the cooler. Naturally, reducing the number of fan revolutions has its limit, which does not threaten overheating of the computer. And if the adjustment is made incorrectly, problems may arise. We will try to explain everything in as much detail as possible so that you have absolutely no problems when changing your settings.

To complete the picture, it is worth mentioning that in addition to programmatically changing the cooler rotation speed, there are several other ways in which you can reduce the fan speed: the cooler speed control system, which is hardwired into the BIOS; use of a special device - reobass; artificially lowering the cooler supply voltage.

If control works well from the BIOS on your computer, then you don’t need to read this article further. But, as practice shows, very often the BIOS regulates the cooler speed only superficially. The understatement occurs with a large margin of safety, which, unfortunately, is not always justified and does not lead to a reduction in noise from the fan.

Now let's try to define rheobass. What is it and what does it serve? Most often, the rheobass is a device that is mounted in a computer bay measuring 5.25" or 3.5". It serves for manual adjustment of the rotation speed of coolers in the system unit.

Sometimes there are reobass models made for a PCI slot or even made in the form of a regular adapter for a cooler power cable. A similar device has one or several regulators on the front panel, with the help of which the fan speed is adjusted. When choosing a reobass, first of all you need to pay attention to the presence of a sufficient number of adjustment channels. In simple words, you need to buy a rheobass that can adjust the speed of all fans in the system. Also, when choosing a reobass, it makes sense to pay attention to the length of the wires, so that it is sufficient to connect all coolers. Additionally, you need to clarify the possibility of connecting the rheobass to the FAN connector on the motherboard, which is necessary to display changes in fan speed in the operating system. This option may, of course, not be needed if the selected rheobass has an LCD display, on which the temperature from the sensors and the rotation speed of the coolers will be displayed. But any reobas costs money, and not everyone has a free amount of money that can be spent on such a thing, which is far from essential. Therefore, to save your money, let's consider a program that serves to reduce the number of revolutions of coolers - SpeedFan.

SpeedFan cooler management software

SpeedFan is a multifunctional and completely free program. SpeedFan is capable of controlling the cooler speed automatically. You will immediately have to be a little disappointed that this program is not able to work on all modern laptops, but this fact can only be verified by running these utilities. In addition, the SpeedFan program is capable of adjusting the rotation speed of only those fans that can be controlled by the motherboard from under the BIOS. For example, in the case we are considering, from the BIOS you can enable cooler control exclusively for the central processor. But at the same time, you can view the current rotation speed of two more fans. Now the most important thing, before you start using the SpeedFan program, you must disable cooler management in your computer’s BIOS! If this is not done, then the operation of the coolers may proceed according to the following scheme. When the SpeedFan program is loaded, it reads the current speed of the coolers, which it takes as the maximum values. Therefore, if by the time the program starts the BIOS cannot spin up the fans to maximum speed, then the program will not do this either. Let’s assume the following situation: at the time the program was launched, the fan on the central processor was rotating at a speed of 1100 rpm; SpeedFan, taking this rotation speed as the maximum, was unable to increase it when the processor further warmed up. As a result, the processor will continue to heat up to a critical temperature and if its automatic overheating protection does not work, it may fail before it has time to shut down. An experienced user, of course, will be able to grasp this point, noticing that when the load on the processor increases (let’s say running a game), the fan does not increase its speed (read, the noise it produces increases), but such a risk is not justified. Therefore, we remind you once again that before launching the SpeedFan program, be sure to disable fan speed control in the BIOS.

When you first launch the SpeedFan program, a window will appear on the monitor screen offering a description of the program’s functionality. Here you can check the box and close it so that the next time you start this message, this message will not be displayed on the screen. After this, the program will read the parameters of the motherboard microcircuits and the values of the temperature sensors. As a result of successfully completing this task, a window should appear in front of you with a list of the current fan speed values, as well as the temperature of the sensors on the monitored PC components. After this, you need to go to the “Configure -> Options” menu and change the language to “Russian”.

As you can see in the screenshot, the window also displays the processor load level and voltage information.

Block “1” lists the detected fan speed sensors under the names Fan1, Fan2, etc. In this case, the number of sensors in the list may exceed what actually exists. Pay your attention to the values, for example, line 2 - Fan2 and line 4 - Fan1, they have real numbers of 2837 and 3358 revolutions per minute (RPM). But the rest of the indicators are either equal to zero, like the value of Fan3, or a value called “garbage” is indicated (in the picture this is the value indicated in the first line). We will delete the extra lines later.

Block “2” indicates the temperature sensors that are detected in the system. GPU is the video card chipset, HD0 is the hard drive temperature sensor, CPU is the sensor on the central processor (instead of the CPU in the Temp3 picture). The rest of the readings are garbage (the temperature of the sensors in the working system cannot be 17 or 127 degrees). This is the main drawback of the program, that it is necessary to guess which value corresponds to which component of the system unit. For the sake of truth, it is worth mentioning that on the official website you can select the necessary configuration from the known ones, but this procedure is not easy, and besides, all descriptions are available only in English.

If you have difficulty identifying sensors, you can use another utility that is used to obtain parameters of the system as a whole, for example AIDA64. And after launching this utility, you can easily compare its indicators with the SpeedFan parameters, thereby determining which temperature and speed indicators relate to which component of the system unit.

Block “3” contains speed adjustments Speed01, Speed02, etc. With these adjustments you can set the rotation speeds as a percentage (sometimes these can be designated as Pwm1, Pwm2, etc.). At this stage, we are interested in one question: which indicator out of the six Speed01..06 is responsible for which Fan1..6. To determine this, you need to change the value of each Speed one by one from 100% to 85-50% and observe how much the speed of a particular Fan has changed. Thus, after running through all the Speed lines, you remember which of them corresponds to which Fan line. We repeat once again that only those fans that the motherboard is capable of controlling from the BIOS will be regulated.

Fan assembly

SpeedFan Settings

Now let's move on to the program settings. To do this, go to the “Configuration” menu and rename all sensors with names that you understand, so that in the future you will no longer be confused about which value refers to which component. In our example, we will programmatically regulate the rotation speed of the cooler on the central processor.

Go to the “Temperatures” tab and find the temperature sensor you defined a little earlier on the processor (in our example it’s Temp3) and click on it first once, and then a second later again, after which you can enter absolutely anything you like in the name field name, for example "CPU Temp". Then, in the settings field below, enter the value of the desired temperature, which will be maintained by the program at the minimum possible rotation speed of the selected cooler, and also indicate the “alarm” temperature at which the maximum fan speed will turn on on the selected device.

In our case, the desired temperature is 40 degrees, and the alarm temperature is set to 50 degrees Celsius. Naturally, for each case this temperature will be different, so the optimal ratio can only be selected by experimentation.

After this, you need to expand the branch and uncheck all the boxes, except for the Speed one, which adjusts the Fan speed corresponding to your cooler. In our example this is Speed04. Next, uncheck the remaining temperatures that you do not want to be displayed in the main SpeedFan window.

On the “Fans” tab, find the necessary coolers, rename them in accordance with their purpose, and disable the rest.

Fans

After that, go to the “Speeds” tab. Go to the Speed line that is responsible for the desired fan, rename it (in our example it’s CPU Speed) and set the necessary parameters: minimum – the minimum percentage of the maximum cooler speed that can be set by the program; maximum – percentage of the maximum cooler speed. In our case, the minimum is set at 55%, and the maximum at 80%. It is not surprising that the program for controlling coolers cannot set a value equal to 100%, because in the “Temperature” tab we have already set the “alarm” value, upon reaching which the cooler speed will be forced to be set to 100%. Also, in order for the regulation to occur automatically, do not forget to check the “Auto change” checkbox.

Auto change

This completes the settings, you can go to the main program window and check the “Auto fan speed” checkbox. After this, the cooler speed will be adjusted automatically. Of course, you won’t be able to set the optimal fan speed settings the first time, so you’ll have to experiment a little.

Additional SpeedFan options

The SpeedFan program has a whole bunch of additional functions and parameters with which it can control the speed of each cooler individually. There is no point in considering all of them, since it may take up another page; we will describe only a few that are the most useful from our point of view.

Go again to the “Configuration -> Options” tab. After that, check the “Launch minimized” checkbox. It is necessary, as the name suggests, so that SpeedFan starts when Windows boots in minimized mode. If you do not check this box, then after loading the operating system the main window will be displayed on the desktop. It should be noted that if the program does not start automatically, then its shortcut should be added to the startup folder.

The next checkbox that needs to be checked is called “Static icon”. You need to activate this option so that the program is displayed in the system tray as a simple icon, and not as numbers. But this, as they say, is a matter of taste.

The “Minimize when closing” checkbox should be checked so that after clicking on the “red cross” the program does not close, but simply minimizes it to the system tray.

The “Full fan speed on exit” checkbox is checked so that after closing the program (exiting it), the fan speed is set to the maximum. If this item is not activated, then after closing the program, the speed will remain at the level corresponding to the moment of closing. And this, when the load on the processor increases, is fraught with its overheating, since nothing controls the processor cooler.

Summing up the article, we can safely say that now, using the SpeedFan program, you can independently adjust the speed of the coolers in the system unit, and also reduce the noise in your apartment.

Almost every person nowadays has a computer. And many people sometimes get tired of the annoying noise of coolers. Noise interferes with work and sometimes causes a deterioration in a person’s emotional state. And we need to fight this. But the question is “how?” I will be happy to answer this question.

Computer cooler management program

Now there are many different programs that can control the operation of coolers. One of the more popular programs is SpeedFan.

Download the program for controlling coolers - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

So let's talk about it in more detail. This program is quite multifunctional and, most importantly, it is completely free. At first, I can disappoint you a little because this utility does not work with all laptops. But this is rather the exception than the rule, because I have not yet met a laptop on which it would not work. An important point is the fact that the program can control coolers if they can be controlled by your computer's BIOS. There are times when it will be possible to enable the SmartFan cooler control option in the BIOS only for the central processor.

Now I’ll tell you about a very important point. Before installing this program, be sure to disable fan control in the BIOS! This is all because the following situation may arise. At the first moment of loading, the SmartFan program reads the rotation speed of the cooler and takes it as the maximum. And if your cooler has not been overclocked to maximum values at this moment, the program itself will also not be able to do this.

I once had such a slightly sad experience. The processor cooler was spinning at low speeds, and when its load increased, the program was unable to overclock the cooler, which is why the processor became very hot. To avoid repeating this, keep this point in mind.

When you start the program, you will see an initial window that will display the values of many sensors and a list with the speed values of your coolers.

Go to the “Options” tab and switch the language to Russian.

Now I’ll tell you what the main window of the program is. In the left corner there is a block of RPM values of our coolers, and on the right are indicators of temperature sensors (GPU, HDD, CPU). Below you can set their rotation speed as a percentage of the maximum frequency.

To manage coolers, you need to go to the temperature tab. There you can automatically set the temperature, upon reaching which the cooler will operate at minimum speed. It also sets the danger temperature, upon reaching which the program will accelerate the cooler to the maximum possible rotation speed under certain circumstances.

But do not forget that the system is capable of controlling only those coolers that provide this control. On the “Speeds” tab we can set the minimum and maximum rotation threshold.

The SpeedFan program also has the ability to receive a detailed report on its work, in which we can see all the work statistics for a certain period. It has the ability to view all data on the cooler (frequency, voltage) and disable viewing of coolers that we do not need.

To summarize all of the above, I will say that this program has many different functions with which a person can control the operation of the cooler, as well as make their computer work longer.