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[00:00:00]have you ever wished that there was just one simple to use piece of software that would allow you to take full control over the fans in your system well there's an answer for that today we're going to do a little tutorial on how to set it up how to use it where to find it and more importantly how to support this project this guy has no idea i'm doing this video this is a single developer type of project and it is a million times more powerful than any of the garbage any of the official motherboard slash fan control software people have ever dreamt of creating corsair's new 32-inch xeneon 1440p gaming monitor has the features you need to play your best features like silky smooth 165 hertz refresh rate ips display with one millisecond mprt response time quantum dot technology hdr 400 and built-in mount for either a microphone webcam or even a dslr to see the complete list of features of the corsair xenion 32-inch gaming monitor follow the link in the description below okay first and foremost i'll be putting a link to the software down in the description below hopefully i mean it is on github i know that's gonna be scary for a lot of people we have been using it around here so far we have not scanned anything malicious um i just wanna put that out there though anytime you grab any files from the net you are taking your own risk not us so download at your own discretion this software is um amazing absolutely the most powerful piece of fan control software we've ever used so far we have used it in this little system right here which is intel 12th gen and phil has been using it in his threadripper system which could not be any more different when it comes to motherboard approaches fan control modules etc etc um so this is this this is hopefully going to work for your system today we'll show you how to set it up although an amazingly creative piece of software not the most creative name it is called fan control v110 i mean i don't care what it's called you could call call it potato spam for all i care if it works that's all i care about so here's the problem with modern fan software it's controlled through your motherboard if you're using fan headers right on your motherboard if you're using a third-party piece of hardware whether it be like commander from corsair or liam lee lconnect or something like that i have no idea how well that's going to integrate with this personally for me on my on my rig that i'm building for home i will not be using any of the lconnect fan control hub i want to remove that hub entirely in terms of being inc even connected to the fan software so i will be connecting my headers for my fans to directly to the motherboard and then letting this software control it and i'll just be using the hub for rgb stuff so once you load the software it's going to automatically scan for all sensors and probes that are in your system anything that has any sort of speed report or speed or temperature reporting so fan headers temperature probes that are existing on your motherboard the gpu itself and then it's going to build a profile that's going to basically spread all those out across a gui here or graphics user interface showing you uh what they all look like the reason why we even went looking for software like this is because i said that when the gpu ramps up the unfortunate thing is the cpu does not get hot enough to speed up those fans and those cpu fans are also or the case fans are also cpu fans connected to an aio that's connected to the cpu header and the motherboard so until the gpu causes enough heat soak in the cpu itself to start ramping up those fans it's just sitting there sweating because there's not enough airflow happening with this chassis even though there's plenty of ventilation so i said there needs to be something that says hey speed up the cpu fans if the gpu goes under load etc etc well that's where this software comes in and that's what we found so as you can see right here we've got fan control one two three four five six seven and then the two fans found on our nvidia gpu right off the bat i've always talked about using custom fan curves in msi afterburner the nice thing about this is if you didn't want to run afterburner or let's say you're running a different piece of software you could control your fans on your graphics card using this software so that's already a plus right there it's one less piece of software that you need to start taking control over your system so you'll see right here that it's showing different percentages and such these are the controls but down here are the speeds so you have the control which is telling the fan what to do and then you have the speed which is something turning with an rpm wire whether it be a water pump a fan or whatever it has an rpm wire so that the system knows how fast is it turning so if you take a look at down here at speed at speeds we got fan number one fan number two technically that is my water pump and then fan number two is my system fans so right off the bat we can double click here and then we can rename this so i'm going to call this aio pump that way we know what we're controlling and then fan two i'm going to call this case fans i'm doing all caps because i find that to be a little bit more why is that capital s k stands okay anyway now you can see fan three has zero rpm fan four has zero rpm fan five zero zero so this particular motherboard although it has all of these additional fan headers available to it i'm not using them so if i want to make the gui a little bit less cluttered i can hide those [Music] which just sort of graze those out so the same thing we can do up here for fan control number one is aio pump so we'll label that one and then fan control two is case fans it's important to label it really is important to label because if you don't you're gonna just be wondering what is it i'm doing or what am i controlling so what we've done now is we've set up our system to know what fans are controlling what and what headers are they on at this point if you wanted manual control it would actually be this simple we have a we have a microphone pointed straight at the system so that you can just not see an actual percentage in rpm change but you'll hear an audible change as well so you can see it taking effect if i were to click the the three dot menu here and go manual control i could now just speed up stuff as i see fit now the aio pump is something that i tend to kind of leave at a static speed speeding up the flow doesn't necessarily reduce the temperatures because even though the water is gonna be flowing through the radiator multiple times right it's flowing over the component just as fast so i found that like finding a good equilibrium speed and just leaving it there it's just as good as letting the pump control itself i don't run the pumps at 100 though because that just burns out its life faster than necessary so i'm going to leave aio pump at manual right there but you can see right here the rpm adjusted right so 1900 rpm is where we're at right there now case fans same thing i'll put it in manual just so you can see the way it reacts so until you enable the little toggle switch here nothing happens but watch i'll go full speed these are those loud fans we put in there that go up to like 3000 rpm check it out right there 2900 and 9000 rpm 15 rpm so a little bit of resistance keeping it from hitting the 3000 but there you can go you see that it's actually working now so you could just manually set a slider and call it a day but the software so much more powerful than that i would not do that i would actually set up a smart control so we can do now is if we come off of manual control you can see we've got this grayed out area right here called curve it says curve to be applied to this control now there's no curve set up yet we have to create that curve we need to decide first of all what do we want to control those fans well first and foremost those are the cpu fans and the case fan we should have the cpu temperature affecting the way those fans respond so if we hit the plus down here and then we have multiple options here auto beta fan curve we're not going to do auto we're going to use or control this we've got a sync fan curve we got a mixed fan curve a flat fan curve which is kind of i mean it can't be a curve that's flat right uh target fan curve so you can actually give it a temperature target like do what you got to do to do this to maintain this target we are going to do a graph fan curve here so if you click that you'll see down the bottom here and i wish that the software would auto expand to like let you get down there but you can drag it up and there you go so we're going to call this it's just called graph we're going to call this cpu so we're creating a curve or graph based on the cpu temperature so now that we've done that we can click uh temperature source and it says nan percent nand percent or none because nothing selected yet we haven't told it like what are we basing the curve off of if you do temperature source you will see everything it's scanned in this system package temp individual core temperatures you will see temperatures for the motherboard itself so there's a ton of things on here anything with a temperature probe remember i said that so if you were to install any of those additional probes that you have to tape down somewhere those would be visible as well so we will be doing a cpu package right here 12th gen 12 900k and now you can see we've got a curve that's fairly straight right so we want to adjust this now so if you hit edit you can now click along right and you can add different points that you can now move around and you can create you can create the scale of the chart as well so 120c we know the cpu will never hit that 100c is where i want to like max out the chart and then what we can do here is we can start creating our graph exactly like you wouldn't say like afterburner or something like that and this is all based on percentage to temperature so all we're saying is at this temperature put whatever we're connecting to it at this percent so now i'm going to hit okay and look there's our new curve right there we can see based on the current temperature cpu package at 40 c we have 51.8 percent just jumped to 55.

[00:09:46]now we can do is go back up here to our case fans we can apply this curve to cpu temp so you see now when you click on the curve cpu temp now appears now check it out you hear the fans start to ramp up now we have told the cpu case fans or the case fans that we set to use cpu temp as the speed that's not really that different from anything you could do say in the motherboard software or any third-party software iq msi afterburner for the gpu specifically any motherboard software lean leal connect has some control in there that's nothing special what's special here is the fact that we can create another graph and we are going to call this one gpu temperature we are going to set the source to our nvidia rtx 3080ti which is currently at 30c create our graph just like we want i like to let my fans sort of spin at 50 minimum right until approximately 45c and then i will let it sort of kind of exponentially ramp up we are going to max this out at 85c because i want finer control there's no reason let it go out to 120c that we we've already proved in a video it'll shut down before gpu ever gets to that temp and then maybe what i'll do is put another control right there and if it happens to be a cold day i'll let it go down as low as like uh 38 or something like that so hit okay now you can see we've got our gpu fan curve now check this out this is where the cool thing happens i showed you in the list here there's a mix fan curve we are now going to create a new fan curve that is going to take multiple curves into account on what to do so let me explain this if i click mix fan curve and we're just calling it mix that's perfectly fine function max sum average min and subtract so we're telling it what to do with the two figures it's going to be like looking at what i want to do is set max which basically says whatever the maximum temperature is that i'm telling you to reference use that to control the fan curve so i'm going to set max add fan curve cpu temp we can add another fan curve gpu temp so check it out now it says at the bottom it's at 53.3 percent and it's using cpu temp right now as our max because it's the hotter temperature so you'll see this number right here 57.4 which dropped down now to 50.5 and it switched to gpu because now the gpu is hotter than the cpu so now the mix curve has now switched to the gpu curve to control those same fans well not yet we haven't told it to do that to do that now if we come up here where it says curve and cpu temp we just select mix now the case fans will use whatever the max of those two graphs i set up to control those fans so you can see now the power of using this so you could have your intake fans if they're on a separate header be completely independent from say the exhaust fans and completely independent from the gpu fans independent from the cpu pump and independent from radiator fans so as long as you set those up on different headers and i would use like splitters to do that um you could basically set it up okay i am putting my system under load ramp up the intake fans so we have positive pressure ramp up the radiator fans right so you can really control that airflow balance like down to one percent intervals whereas a lot of fan control software like lee lee lconnect just has like a chart that looks like a wi-fi signal and you have whatever increments they set which is like a couple hundred rpm at a time so let's demonstrate now what we've just done and before we do that we need to hit the triple menu here save configuration if you don't do that and you close the software and you come back everything just is gone the one thing i think they should do with this software is add an auto save every time you make a change maybe auto save or at least warn you if you go to like shut down the system that you haven't saved because i can't tell you how many times i've actually shut this down after setting it up and then like didn't save anything so now we're saved now one thing we still have to do is we have to control the gpu fan so i showed you how to set up the case fans um if i want to create a custom curve for the gpu fans because i already created a gpu temp curve down here i can just turn on curve and select gpu temp on both of the fans right there if you have a triple fan cooler on your gpu three fans will appear so you can do that now our gpu temp on our fans on the gpu are using that curve we already set up so had i not selected the curve right now in those two the case fans would have reacted but the gpu fans wouldn't have sped up they would have run the factory nvidia curve which is way too um quiet in my opinion especially in a small form factor case we need as much airflow as possible all right so let's go and demonstrate the gpu fan speeding up and the case fan speeding up so if i go ahead and run heaven here you can see our case fans are using mix but if we look at mix right now it's currently favoring cpu temp because the gpu has not passed the temperature of the cpu yet okay we're pretty close 56 versus 57 now it's switched to gpu temp and it popped up to a higher percentage you can hear the fan speed up it's now 66 fan speed 58c on the gpu and you can hear them speeding up now 59c and at 70 now or 69 percent at nice percent small case only two fans exhausting a lot of heat 380 ti is a lot of watts that's why they ramp up so high so check this out now if i stop the gpu test right here and i run cinebench our cpu temp is going to spike up and you'll see this immediately switch to cpu there it goes and we are a hundred percent now on the fan curve because we hit 82c on the cpu and that's just where i have the fan curve set so if you don't want it to be that loud you just adjust your curve you push it out some on how hot it needs to be before it goes to 100 but 83c on the cpu 85 83 in the small form factor case i mean look at the gpu the gpu is cooling down fast too because that exchange of air happening inside the chassis is also helping the gpu right so now if i go ahead and start heaven again our cpu temp we'll switch to gpu well it will once the cpu and gpu pass each other so it's kind of going back and forth right there because it's like right on the edge where they're crossing each other and the funny thing too right now is with the cpu being hotter than the gpu it is affecting the gpu because the fans are still ramped up because of the cpu temp so the gpu is benefiting from that but check this out our gpu just crossed the cpu so now we are using the gpu fan curve which i have set a bit more aggressive than the cpu but you can see now we are intelligently mixing those temperatures and using the max of whichever curve we have set now there's another thing you can control here let's say you don't like that super fast ramp speed or it sounds like it's a car revving if you don't want that there's a couple ways you can control that so you'd have to set this up for each fan curve or reference curve that you have set up so if we click the edit button on cpu you can see here at the top we have a 2c hysteresis with a 1 second response time so what that is saying is every one second look for two degrees celsius of temperature change before we make a change we can adjust that we can say let's make it take three or four seconds that smooths out how long it's so if you have a like you load a program and the cpu goes back with a with like a one like or standard fan curve the fan would go that's annoying right as annoying as a sound i just made so you could set that to go hey it needs to be like changing temperature for at least three seconds before the fan does anything okay so you set the decision choice making there with hysteresis and you can change the the the change like how many c you wanted to adjust so we'll leave it at two and i'm gonna leave it at three seconds response time now personally if something goes under load right away i want it to ramp up quickly maybe not like instantaneous but i want it to be quickly but what i want to also happen is when it's done i don't want the fans to ramp down immediately either there's heat that's built up in there there's heat soak in the parts the parts going to be rating off heat even though the core drops suddenly the parts got heated up the case got heated up i wanted to continue cooling that chassis so i'm going to set this to like six seconds response time no not five seconds response time but only on the way down so that means after the temperature has dropped or started to come down it's gonna use this logic okay so we're gonna check that box right there and hit ok so now if we do some sort of a increase in temperature it'll use the logic i just set on the way down so now if we go up to case fans which is again what all of this is controlling we hit the drop down here we see we get step up step down and it's rated in percentage per second now you've got start percent stop percent offset percent just leave those alone for now step up means every second make an eight percent change in fan speed eight percent per second higher percentage means faster response okay so if i add fifty percent per second it'll make a fifty percent change in fan speed per second so now if i load cinebench it's gonna go what like real fast it's gonna be like literally hitting the rev limiter so check this out it's sped up fairly quickly right there but that's probably as fast as those fans can actually spin up as well remember the motor has that's a big blade that's turning at a high rpm so it takes time for it to ramp up we are going to now adjust this to ramp up time i want to go back to the eight percent but what i want is it to come down slowly continue exhausting the air so we slow down the percent per second so i'm gonna go down to like three percent per second because you heard how fast that kind of came down right now now if i set it to three percent per second and i run it again when the test is done you will notice it slowing down uh the fans a lot see here how fast it's ramping up you see how much longer it took too because i went from 50 back to eight percent on the on the step up but on the step down we want it to slowly do it so i'm just going to stop the test now listen see how much longer it's holding those fan rpms so you can fine tune all that with the step up and step down time personally i feel like it would be nice to have that be uh you know finely tuned because i think a lot of people when the when the load stops the fans just drop because it's percent per load and like that's how motherboards tend to work cpu like pwm is what it kind of uses more often than not in the motherboard control software but if we want that to last longer then we would go back down to the cpu temp right and then we would increase the response time from five seconds to say 10 seconds right so the longer we let it sit there and kind of scan what's happening the longer it'll hold those fans you know so you can adjust all of that this is incredibly powerful software anything that has a fan control or a temperature probe that the system sees if it can basically be seen in hardware monitor it's going to be seen by this software right here and this allows you to take full control over your system in a temperature-controlled way that again like i said no third-party software at all as much as they might want to tout that they do do not have this level of control this is what happens when someone that sees a problem as an enthusiast and as a programmer gets involved and says i'm gonna do something that nobody has been doing a way i feel they should do it and they did it right in my opinion this is a free piece of software okay i didn't mention at the beginning of this video it probably says it in the title somewhere this software is free right now i have no doubt thousands of you are running out at the very second i'm saying this and are already downloading and following along with this you might have even restarted the video and you're kind of going along as we talk about it if you feel so inclined donate to this developer it is these donations and again this guy has no idea i'm doing this donate because donations are what keep these independent creators like this going building new features and updating because if it's just like speed this is kind of like the modern speed fan of back in the day the speed van project was amazing when it was new and then once it got dropped as sensors and stuff moved forward and controllers move forward the software got left behind it no longer works because it just is not intelligent enough to actually make heads or tails of all the new hardware right now i'm gonna put my money where my mouth is and i'm gonna donate 500 to this guy because i firmly believe that stuff like this is what makes this this entire community amazing because this again no official huge company with nearly unlimited resources to develop this kind of stuff has come up with anything even close to this level of control and you know what i want to happen i want this the software to continue to outpace because i have no doubt this video might trigger some other word manufacturers to try and start to implement this stuff themselves which put something like this out of a little job and i don't want that i want this guy to continue to be better than any of the major corporations that don't care about this level of software because i've already got your money right so there we go i just donated 500 to remy there and because you know i've been saying this for years i wish there was a piece of software that would truly allow me to control gpu um like fan curves in the case based off the gpu without having to connect directly to the gpu with any sort of third-party software you know like using msi afterburner or whatever that just controls the fans on the gpu nothing to do with the case hardware the companies that make hardware like evga has tried to kind of approach the problem by putting fan headers on the gpu but then that no longer controls the cpu like the cpu no longer controls those fans just the gpu which is the inverse of the same problem so anyway there we go if you guys feeling so inclined download this software the link is down below give a small even a dollar imagine if all of you that downloaded this did one dollar imagine what that guy would wake up to probably pretty excited to make the next piece of software hey remy can you create rgb control you'd make a million bucks man all right guys thanks for watching hope this video helps someone we'll see in the next one