Fancy Controlling your GFX Fan Speed?

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13-02-2005, 11:17 AM
Randell Floyd

Fancy Controlling your GFX Fan Speed?

Just been trawling the internet to see if I was able to control my Leadtek 6800 fanspeed as it's a little noisy when no other noise about.

So made a discovery!

Get yourself Expertool It's made by Gainward for their cards but works on a lot of other makes.

Then to better the fan control, use this This ”HACK” enable fanspeed settings in EXPERTool to range from 0 to 100%

Now my card near silent, and the temps have onlu gone up 2-3oC, and it will even let me have the fan on 100% when in a LAN.
13-02-2005, 03:43 PM
korda

Could be good...

Seems like a great tool in theory, but couldn't it cause problems in the long run? :inquisiti
When you say it works on "other makes" do you mean other nVidia makes?
or do they have a separate tool for Radeon cards? (e.g. the X800XT)
14-02-2005, 06:45 AM
davidstone28

Excellent tip (assuming it works).
14-02-2005, 07:35 AM
fei

just tried this on a bfg 6800 ultra

after closing the prog it seemed to stick the fan at full whack :(
14-02-2005, 02:39 PM
mark22

Hey this is great. I didn't use the hack bit I just changed the 2D fan speed to 50% instead of 60 on my gigabyte 6600GT and it got rid of an annoying whine. Temps went from 57 to 59c, which I can live with until I get some decent cooling on there.
14-02-2005, 03:29 PM
Steve

Quote:

Originally Posted by korda

Seems like a great tool in theory, but couldn't it cause problems in the long run? :inquisiti

They throttle about about 125C, so I doubt it.
14-02-2005, 03:34 PM
malfunction

Quote:

Originally Posted by fei

just tried this on a bfg 6800 ultra

after closing the prog it seemed to stick the fan at full whack :(

Try setting the fan speed and then killing the process via task manager (make sure it's the PROCESS and not the PROGRAM) instead of exiting the program manually.