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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 01, 2005
- Total Downloads: 963,067
- Downloads last week: 4,977
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 173 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This free program offers some useful system details to those savvy enough to understand its results. SpeedFan's tabbed interface isn't hard to navigate, but most users won't be able to make head or tail of the data this utility provides. The program's system-tray icon tells you the temperature of your PC's hard drive, and you can receive information on voltage and fan speeds.
The utility can display SMART data and includes a tool for resetting motherboard clocks. Basically, if this review makes no sense to you, SpeedFan is above your head and won't be worth downloading. However, PC technicians and those who like to do their own system maintenance might as well take a look at this application, particularly since it costs nothing.
Publisher's description
From Almico Software :SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan fully supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitor software that can access temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption.
Version 4.21 added full support for SCSI hard disks: besides SCSI hard disk temperature report, S.M.A.R.T. status is shown, including the full report for internal counters; added support for new buses and sensors; better handled resume from suspend.
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Version: SpeedFan 4.21
Pros: It's FREE of charge and FREE of Ad-Ware.
It works flawlessly, which for a completely FREE and AD-WARE FREE piece of software; is great!
It's Easy Enough for an intermediate computer user to use without difficulty.
It appears to be "intelligent" software, able to automatically detect and access many different sensors and diodes.
It has a nice collection of tools all in the one ?box?.
Cons: The GUI, although perfectly acceptable for my taste, is not as pretty as I am sure most users would like.
Also, the lack of built-in help is slightly inconvenient.
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Version: SpeedFan 4.21
Pros: Lot's of options/control.
Cons: Interface could use some touching up. And instead of "Temp1" and "Temp2" it should say "System Temp" and "CPU Temp."
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