SpeedFan 4.44

SpeedFan allows you to have a deeper view of the status of your computer. Almost every computer includes support for hardware monitoring. Accessing digital temperature sensors is really useful. If you are trying to figure out why your pc hangs when under heavy load or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you to find the real cause. Very often it is a poor power supply, or an improperly installed heatsink that lead to behaviours that we tend to associate with errors from the operating system, but that are not. SpeedFan automatically searches your computer for interesting chips: the hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can expose voltages, fan speeds and temperatures. On rare occasions, the BIOS doesn’t activate such features. SpeedFan tries to enable them as long as this is a safe thing to do. Not only the motherboard is searched, but also some video cards and almost every recent hard disk. SpeedFan can access status info from EIDE, SATA and even SCSI drives, showing, in a consistent way, internal data that can be used to diagnose current and future hard disk failures. This is known as S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise.

Change Log :

- added full support for ATK0110
- added Advanced Fan Control including a graphical UI for configuration
- DELL support is now working on 64 bit systems too
- DELL support can change fan speeds, but if the BIOS is overriding it, there is little SpeedFan can do
- added support for ST STTS3000 and ST STTS2002 DIMM temperature sensors
- reported temperatures and fan speed on Sony Vaio VGN-FW21E
- fan speed is reported on some ASUS laptops with ATK0100 (like the F81Se and the K52JT)
- added preliminary identification of Fintek F71862
- PWM values can now be logged too
- temperatures are no longer tied to every fan speed as a default
- added F71809 PWM setting and reading
- improved SMART hard disk temperature reading if multiple attributes seem to report it
- rebuilt ARECA DLL with latest library and improved Areca RAID support
- more aggressive behaviour setting PWMs (this might help on systems where something else tries to change them)

Download : Freeware

SpeedFan 4.44 – (1.99MB)

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