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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 23, 2006
- 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 monitors voltages, fan speeds, and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. It can even access SMART information for hard disks that support this feature, and show hard-disk temperatures if that's supported. SpeedFan fully supports SCSI disks and can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access temperature sensors, but mainly 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 4.28 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of SpeedFan 4.28
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 173 votes
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68 out of 95 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.28
"the little things are important"
Pros: it is more important then you realise to know your comp temp. if you like to tweak things you will love this app..
Cons: it has to many settings that i don't think are needed.
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16 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.28
"Doesn't work on all computers."
Pros: Despite some red firewall flags during installation, I allowed full install of the product, & although it appeared to have installed correctly, it didn't show any temps or fans. Since my computer was built in 2000 with a 1.8 p4 Windows ME, which is now XP, I can only assume that maybe my computer is too old or the fan runs at one constant speed.
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9 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.28
Pros: Amazine control: way more settings available than I know what to do with. To be honest, I primarily like this because it tells me my CPU temp.
Cons: If you don't know what you're doing, you could royally mess something up. But really, this isn't the prog's fault.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.28
Pros: Since I overclocked my CPU, I was looking for a simple program to monitor the CPU temp. without getting into the Bios. This software does just that and more. Depending on your mother board it will also monitor the temps at different locations as well, such as your hard drive. The automatic fan speed adjustment is another plus. If the temps start to rise it will automatically adjust the RPM of your fans to compensate. Great diagnostic tool using the charts tab.
Cons: Not novice friendly. I strongly urge reading the tutorial before configuring this application.
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9 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.28
Pros: Works well. Let me control my fans. Best to buy a controller but this is cheap and easy.
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