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This is the release repository for Fan Control, a highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.
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Suggestion: Fan speed modifiers #87

Open chjohans opened 3 years ago

chjohans commented 3 years ago

Sometimes fans (and pumps!) is registered with different than the actual speed. Usually, it's half or double the actual speed, but I've seen other speed factors in the past.

An example is my Corsair H115i Pro Xt, SpeedFan reports exactly double the actual speed. (Of course, the BIOS reports the same double speed as well as it reads from the same source).

I suggest a second option for "Speeds", in the "drop-down" where you have the "Hide" option. You could call it "Calibration" or something like that. The options should be to either multiply or divide the speed you read by a user-defined value.

And while you're at it, you might as well consider the option to add or subtract a user-defined value as well, in case some fans report too low or too high speeds. This might be a rare use-case though so it's not as important as the multiply/divide above.

Of course the resulting speed after multiplying/dividing and/or adding/subtracting) should be used by and reported by FanControl as the actual speed.

Some monitoring software, like HWiNFO, will report the speed of the H115i pump correctly, I suspect that is because it specifically supports this unit and it knows to divide the reported speed by 2 to get the actual pump speed.

Anyhow, please consider this. I just donated $10 as I really like FanControl, I'm using it to control my case fans' speed based on both the CPU and GPU temperatures. The mixed fan curves are really useful!

Rem0o commented 3 years ago

Stupid question, but how do you know the BIOS isn't right in the reading vs HWiNFO ? Also, is it the header itself that reads the wrong speed or is it that the H115i counter itself is made in such a way that it reports double the "ticks" from any other fan?

chjohans commented 3 years ago

Well, in the case of my Corsair H115i I'm sure because Corsair specifies the pump speed on their webpage, and corsairs own monitoring tool reports the correct pump speed, which is / 2

I am pretty sure it's the H115i (and all other AiO coolers from Corsair) that reports double the "ticks".

As I mentioned I have in the past seen fans doing the same thing, that is reporting double the "ticks".

HWiNFO, in addition to reporting the correct speed for the H115i pump, also have the ability to modify the reported speed (or any other measured data) the way I describe above.

chjohans commented 3 years ago

ANy chance of getting this implemented? I went to donate hoping that would "inspire" you to do something about this. In any case the Fan COntrol is worth the donation as it is, but please consider this. Thanks!