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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.6
- Date added: April 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,770
- Downloads last week: 140
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on September 03, 2009
If you've got burnt thighs from an old MacBook Pro or you notice that your computer is always overheating and crashing from using CPU-intensive apps (like playing PC games in a virtual Windows environment), you might want to check out smcFanControl. This free, GPL-licensed utility has a single purpose: letting you increase the minimum speed of built-in fans, so your Intel computer will run cooler.
smcFanControl lets you monitor the current temperature (in Celsius or Fahrenheit), assign different minimum speeds for each fan using sliders, and even apply different settings when your power source changes (for example, going back to default fan speed when using battery power). As with any settings-tinkering software, you'll want to use smcFanControl judiciously--but fortunately this application always keeps fans in automatic mode (so speed will increase along with CPU load) and never lets you set the fan speed below the Apple-recommended minimum. This most recent version adds support for every current MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mini.
Publisher's description
From Hendrik Holtmann :smcFanControl lets the user set the minimum speed of the build in fans. So you can increase your minimum fan speed to make your intel mac run cooler. However in order not to damage your machines smcFanControl let's you not set minimum speed to a rate under Apple's defaults.
What's new in this version:
- Offical support for every so far released Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, mac mini included
- Fans of iMacs, MacPro's are read out on first startup. For official support of iMac/MacPro in a future release please send me your ModelName and min/max speed for every fan.
- The fan to be displayed in the menubar can be chosen now
- All known memory leaks fixed
- Spanish localization included
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Version: smcFanControl 2.2.2
"Fixed the lines I was getting."
Pros: Free download, trusted CNET site. Easy to use.
Cons: Clocking needs to be able to be typed in manually instead if the slider bar.
Summary: I thought my video card was going out on my Mac, decided to try this program and it WORKED! No more freezing, lines or jerky programs!
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