SpeedFan is the popular utility meant for accurately monitoring the status of your computer’s hardware devices. Besides helping you keep a close eye on the parameters of your hardware components, this powerful and feature-rich program also lets you change your computer's fan speeds.
One of the main advantages of SpeedFan is its comprehensiveness. It’s a feature-rich application that can display the temperatures of your motherboard, graphics card, and hard disks, read and monitor voltages and fan speeds, or verify the status of your hard disk using the S.M.A.R.T. technology or the SCSI attributes. It also comes with many handy additional features and functions, such as the possibility to set specific warnings and actions to be triggered when certain monitored parameters reach a specific value. For example, it can display a popup message, play a sound, or execute a certain app when the temperature of your GPU reaches a certain value.
Another remarkable advantage of this great tool is its accuracy. It has proven countless times to be capable of being a reliable utility that provides very precise data. Computer maintenance professionals or casual users can use SpeedFan to detect improperly installed heatsinks or other similar issues that cause the computer to behave poorly.
Furthermore, SpeedFan supports a wide range of available motherboards, clocks, chipsets, and other devices. You can rest assured that SpeedFan will correctly identify your devices and the monitoring will be both accurate and relevant.
SpeedFan is also easy-to-use and accessible to anyone, including complete beginners. As you can see, it’s loaded with undeniable qualities and leaves no room for complaint, completely justifying why it’s one of the most famous hardware monitoring tools on the market today. The fact that it’s completely free only makes it even more desirable. The “better safe than sorry” saying is true under any circumstances, and using the convenient, reliable and free SpeedFan utility to keep a close eye on the health of your hardware components is definitely a good idea.
v4.52 [Apr 14, 2012]
- added full support for Nuvoton NCT6791D (including fan control)
- Improved external (USB) hard disk detection (some were not properly detected on Windows 8)
- Added a method to access hard disks connected to 3ware RAID controllers (works on 64 bit systems too)
- Added support for Intel core temperature (Family 06h Model 3Ch)
- Added support for Intel core temperature (Family 06h Model 3Eh)
- Added support for AMD Family 15h temperature
- Added support for AMD Family 16h temperature
- Added support for Intel 8 Series SMBus
- Added support for Intel 8 Series Mobile SMBus
- Added support for Intel 9 Series SMBus
- Added Nuvoton NCT6779D/NCT6791D advanced option to choose between PWM and DC output for System Fan (PWM 1)
- Changed the way NCT6779D and NCT6791D read fan speeds
- Added 4 more temperature readings to NCT6779D
- Added Fintek F71808A advanced setting: PWM TYPE 3
- Refined Fintek F71808A description for PWM MODEs
- Added preliminary support for ITE IT8620E temperatures and fan speeds
- Fixed a minor typo that caused Fintek F71808A to not show some temperatures properly
