We put the installation in quotes because although you don’t need to install the app as such, in its settings you can make it run automatically when you start the PC, so you don’t don’t have to manually open it every time. This will be offered to you during the initial setup wizard which we will discuss in the next section of the article, but you can also configure it manually from the program’s own options.
Of course, to do the opposite, you just have to access these same options and uncheck the “Start with Windows” box.
How to control fan speed
As soon as we run the program for the first time, we will be offered to follow a wizard that will not only detect the fans installed in the system, but also perform a series of detection tests automatically to check their maximum speed, minimum speed, etc. ., according to so that the control we have over them is maximum. Y es que no todos los ventiladores son iguales: por ejemplo, en nuestras pruebas hemos usado una RTX 4080 que tiene dos ventiladores, y el software ha detected que su velocidad mínima de funcionamiento era de un 45% para uno y de un 48% para the other.
Once the software has detected all your fans and their characteristics, you will be offered to label them with the name you want to be able to identify them. In our case we have two fans on the heatsink but they go to the same connector so we named it “CPU Fans” but we also have 4 other fans (3 front and 1 rear) who are connected to a hub and they control them all at once, so we called them “Box Fans”.
Of course you can hide all the fans that are not used (in our case, since the board has 7 fan slots and we only use 2 of them, we have hidden the other 5 because we don’t want they are in the way). As you can see in the screenshot above, the interface is very simple and shows you at a glance the fans or groups of fans connected, with their speed and an interface at the top to control their operation .
At the bottom, in the “Curves” section, a flat fan curve is configured by default, but logically if you click on the green + button on the right side you can create your own profiles and then assign them to the fans you want. In our example, we are going to create a custom curve for the CPU heatsink fans, so to do this we simply click on the + and select “Add Graphics Fan Curve”.
By doing so, it will appear in the Curves section, where we can select the temperature source (the temperature sensor on which it will base its operation), and the green “Edit” button that will allow us to modify the curve and its behavior . We are going to create, as we said, a curve for the CPU fans, so we select the CPU temperature and create the curve according to our preferences, all with the mouse and visually.
In the curve we created, the fans will be at 20% up to 40°C in the processor, and they will increase their speed by up to 40% when the temperature reaches 60°C. Then we gradually increase the fan speed to 100% when the temperature reaches 80°C. We have done all this in a simple way, by simply clicking on the part of the curve that we want and moving the point with the mouse or, for a finer adjustment, by modifying the percentage of temperature and speed at the bottom.
Once the custom curve is created to control the speed of the fans, just assign it at the top.
With this, everything would be ready, and it only remains to do the same for the rest of the fans, including those of the graphics card if desired. Simple, right?
