Speedfan has been released in a new version yesterday which added support for many new technologies such as full Vista 64 bit support. The basic functionality could be described the following way. Speedfan monitors temperature levels of core system units such as cpu and hard drives and puts out warnings if they do reach a critical level.
It is also possible to control fans that are connected to a supported motherboard which means that you could reduce the noise of your computer by reducing the speed the fans rotate in your system. The temperature levels will eventually rise if you reduce it to much but it is relatively easy to find a level that reduces the noise and keeps the temperatures at a good level.
I’m mainly using Speedfan to reduce the noise in my computer but it can also be used to monitor temperatures and find out detailed information about your hard drives, if they support S.M.A.R.T. Speedfan also reports voltages such as Vcore, 12v and 3.3V.
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Extremely useful.
BTW, would you happen to know of any utility that checks WinXP problems or missing dlls?
Thanks & cheers,
gnome
I could to some research but don’t know a program yet.
Gnome, try out Crap Cleaner(CCleaner). Under the tools tab it has a thing to check for a lot of dll and registry errors. It’s the only one I can think of off the top of my head that is free
Thanks a lot tash. I’ll check it out mate.
Oh, and Martin, f you find anything I’ll surely read it here, then.
Cheers & thanks guys!
I’ve downloaded it but am abit confused as to how to set it up running at an optimum setting. Perhaps you wouldn’t mind doing a walkthrough or something at some point? :) Thanks!
Have tried to use Speedfan several times over the years but a complete lack of information on how to use it results in its removal every time. I have looked at numerous forums and it looks like lots of people have this problem plus a lot of those who claim to know how to use it quite obviously don’t. I can never work out what temperature means what and what to do about it if I did. My motherboard is supported according to the site but that was about the only information on it I could make use of. A great pity as it would appear to be useful if only it could be used.