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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 22, 2008
- 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 4.34 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 4.34 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of SpeedFan 4.34
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 173 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.34
Pros: It really depends on what type of motherboard you have as to how configurable this application is. You can go to their web site to view a list of motherboards that are compatible with this software. Not a bad idea before you download and try this tool. With my motherboard I can monitor the cpu fan only. Temps. I get are the cpu, mainboard, hard drive and case. I have the cpu fan to run at a higher rpm if the cpu temperature goes above a certain level. I strongly urge you to read the tutorial before trying to configure this application.
Cons: There is a learning curve when it comes to setting this software properly. Not novice friendly at all. Even after reading the help files it took a good few hours of experimentation to understand how to use this application to the best advantage.
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SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks th... read more >>
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.34
Pros: SpeedFan is a very good program, useful in helping to keep your system at more normal temperatures. It can slow down your cooling fans to help reduce noise. SpeedFan is a very small application that puts very little drain on your system performance resources. New version has improved GUI, and a few more capabilities.
Cons: SpeedFan is getting better, but it still has some limitations... your system cooling fan may not have the ability to be slowed down. SpeedFan is working on getting more motherboard setting files, but it takes time.
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1 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.34
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.34
"Very good software to observer your computer stats"
Pros: Uses it all of the time to check my computer temperature and HDD status. Really good software and i'm still using it now
Cons: slows my pc a little... well i can't really complain about it due to its useful functions
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: SpeedFan 4.34
"Great program. Excellent early warning program. Love it!"
Pros: Speedfan downloads easily, provides online diagnostic info about your hard drives, and runs quietly in the background. No glitches. Told me what I needed to know to prevent future hard drive failures due to heat.
Cons: There is nothing that I don't like about it.
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