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The one and only web site for SpeedFan is and will always be www.almico.com.
Please, visit it. This website is from the same author of SpeedFan (Alfredo Milani Comparetti) and it is a placeholder to
point to the original one.
SpeedFan is a freeware tool that can let you have a deeper view of the status of your computer. Most
computers manufactured in the recent years include support for hardware monitoring. Accessing such
resources is really useful. If you are trying to figure out why your pc hangs when heavily stressed,
or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you to find the real cause. Very often it is a poor
power supply, or an improperly installed heatsink that lead to behaviours that we tend to associate
with errors from the operating system, but that are not. SpeedFan automatically searches your hardware
for interesting chips. The hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can expose voltages,
fan speeds and temperatures. On rare occasions, the BIOS didn't activate
such features. SpeedFan tries to enable them as long as this is a safe thing to do. Not only the
motherboard is searched, but also some video cards and almost every recent hard disk. SpeedFan can
access health info from EIDE, SATA and even SCSI drives, showing, in a consistent way,
internal data that can be used to diagnose current and future hard disk failures. This is known as
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). On
some hardware, SpeedFan is even able to change the Front Side Bus (FSB) depending on CPU usage, but
this should be considered as a bonus feature. At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitor
software that can access temperature sensors, but its main feature is
that it can control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus
reducing noise and power consumption.
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