SpeedFan 4.45 (With Dell's Fan Control Support!)

NEW VERSION (27.03.2012) SpeedFan 4.46 is online.

What's new:

 

To get it working you have to enable 'Dell support' option in the settings menu. Then go to 'Readings' tab and you will see 'Speed01' fan control.

This software is for advanced users, so everything you doing is at your own risk

 

Just installed this and saw that my processor was running at close to 80 degrees C! This is with my XPS L502x with an Intel Core i5 2410M. Anyone else with these kinda temps?

EDIT: Still no change in control in fans for me...

 

80с degrees when it's idle, or while doing any 'heavy' tasks?

 

Im not sure what this does because once i have set it to a certain speed it will reach it and then stop.

 

Tried it, didn't like it when it seemed to stop my CPU fan working completely and my temps nearly hit 100c when not even under much load.

My i7 2630QM always hits 90c+ when gaming...
I'm too lazy to repaste the CPU or remove the vent grill though.

 

hoping I can set an upper threshold for the graphics card so I can leave throttlestop on all the time and have it monitor GPU temps without the on/off fan thing when idle.

not listing my fan with the Dell box checked on my L502x, I'll play more with it later

 

SpeedFan 4.45 donnt work with my Dell inspiron 14r n4010, when i enabled Dell support, lappy restarted
win 7 x64 8gb ram ddr3, core i5 m430, ati hd 5470

 

I have had some success on the l502x. Smetimes (easiest to do with powersaver unplugged plan) I can get the fan to run all the time, which I want. I think that dell's built in fan scheme lets things get too hot, and when I just run the fan all the time it doesn't eat that much battery and I get temps in the low 40's and even 30's with it always on. However, whenever I do something like run furmark, dell's crappy plan kicks in, and the fan, which was already on full, actually STOPS while the gpu is heating up, and even afterwards does it's whole "speed up, slow down, speed up a little more, slow down" thing. Any way to keep it on all the time, or at least not be so finnicky? Fan noise is not a problem, but I would like the most aggressive cooling policy I can get.

 

Thanks letmeknov, testing it now.

 

SpeedFan 4.46 is out with " greatly improved DELL support"

P.S. To control the fan you have to enable "DELL support" in options and restart SpeedFan.

 

Don't work on XPS 1645, and sometimes at startup speedfan freeze windows...

 

Sounds great.

I just got the XPS 15 and became a little bit frustrated because I didn't know about manual fan control like for the Vostro 1500.

 

It doesn't work for me on a L702x.
Fan spins up for a seconds then stops again.

Has anyone got Speedfan to work on their L702x/L502x? It would be class to get this working properly.

 

fluffy, what you have to do is turn the fan control down, then back up, it did it to me too, now it's stuck at 100% again and it's bee like that for 15+mins now

EDIT: It shut off again, i'm thinking it ran too cool (44C) and dell decided to override it and shut it off, i'm going to do a bit more testing at other %'s and see if it sticks longer (trying 95% now and so far it's sticking)

 

Yes, it works, but it can't take advantage of the fan control completely to set it as you wish.

 

Yeah, Mine's shut off again... a little frustrating =/

Ohh well, it was awesome if u have time on ur hands n wanna see how cool your laptop can get, I got my m1330 to get down to 62C on the vid card, and about 42C on the CPU (20% load).

On my L702x the lowest I've gotten was 39C CPU and 36C GPU.

 

I might try the turning it down first see if it works better.
It's still not much use if the laptop will override the settings after I set them, even if it takes a few minutes.

What I'd love to do with this if it was working is turn the fan to 100% then overclock the GPU as high as I can go and turn off turboboost to help keep the heat down then see if it can get max settings on BF3

 

okay, i figured it out fluffy, try this... turn on speedfan, once it hits 100% fan, close the program right away, mine's been STUCK for a while now. If it doesn't work I can send you my whole speedfan profile and we'll test from there.

EDIT:
I started running prime95 and stopped the process after it hit ~80C, it went back off again. There goes my theory I read on the speedfan website, that for dells, if the bios is controlling the fan speeds and adjusting it, then there's little speedfan can do, so I guess truly there's no hope for us

 

it wont work on dell xps l702x ,even with the unlocked bios, , someone need to set it internal in bios and add someoptions for the fan, i rather want to have manual controll or automatic with thse speeds

Low 750~900rpm continue, (med) when hit 55-65c 1700-2200rpm, (max) when hit 79c 2200rpm+

tobad this is no pwm fan if it was speedfan can take controll over it , but its a simple 3 pin fan

let me know if its possible

 

Indeed, doesn't work for XPS 1645.
Not surprised though.

Wish I could OC my i7 btw... so bottlenecked

 

you can oc it with "setfsb" you only need to know what controller/chip/clock w/e, but why oc it? do you have games that ask 4x 2.0-2.9 ghz? even i who run 2x tera online only use cpu for like 30%

SetFSB_HomePage

but i wouldnt recommer it to use it, you can break your hardware with it

 

You cannot OC with setFSB unless the creator makes it compatible with your chipset. If that's even possible since dell locks stuff.
And yes I wanna run this i7 as high as it allows with stock voltage. I can OC my GPU 30% but I'm still always CPU bottlenecked.

Oh btw, if it says 30% in can means it's only using 3 cores/threads at 100%. This is because the game cannot utilize al 8 threads at the same time but only 3. However if you would OC the 3 cores would run higher and therefore the game will run better.

Run Hyperpi on 1 core. Windows will say CPU is only 12% active. But in fact that 1 core is 100% active.

 

its not only dell , every notebook maker locks it, and how can a game run beter if you oc, i mean look at it the game dont even use 40% of my cpu so ocing wont help that much, unless you talk about the gpu's , i wouldnt oc something that prog. games dont even use at max, ok if your a wow player that game uses maximum of everything bcuz the game is corrupt

 

Please read my post again.
It's only using 40% because the game cannot use 8 threads @ 100%. This is because the game is not designed to use 8 threads/cores.
It will only using 2-4 cores, that's why it says 30 or 40% usage. However if you OC the game WILL run faster because the cores it's using are running faster

 

so you say, so homuch will you gain from it ?1/5 fps more or maby 1/3 ? is it worth the risk do make an heater of this single fanned and single heatsinked dell xps? unless yyou have an alienware or asus then ok they have 2 fans and heatsinks

 

I aplied artic silver paste and it's very cool (with the LCD down on a stand)
so no I can OC it so much it will give me way more increase.

 

i see , well i cant get mine's cool enough though i use a custom notebook cooler lols it have 2 enermax magma fans but they cant do the job