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View 172 business solutionsBrowse free open source Fan Control software and projects below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Fan Control software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Fan Control
Highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows
Fan Control is a Windows utility designed to give users fine-grained, customizable control over system fans (CPU, GPU, case, etc.) based on temperature and sensor inputs. Rather than relying solely on BIOS fan curves, it allows dynamic adjustment of fan behaviour at the operating-system level — letting you react to real-time load, mix multiple sensors (CPU, GPU, motherboard, drives, etc.), and define custom fan-speed curves for different situations. The tool supports both manual mode (user directly sets fan speeds) and automated mode (fans follow sensor-driven graphs), enabling flexible tradeoffs between noise, cooling, and performance. Users can create and save different “profiles” (e.g. silent mode, high-performance mode, custom GPU-heavy workloads), then load them as needed. Recent versions switched their driver backend (migrating from WinRing0 to a PawnIO-based driver) to improve compatibility and avoid security/AV-flagging issues. -
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Solution to the cooling fan noise annoyances Thinkpad T4x (T40/T41/T42/T43) notebook series. Allows the user to control fan activity based on the system temperature. Win XP Visual C++ project controls the fan via port IO to the embedded controller.
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NoteBook FanControl (NBFC)
Cross-platform fan control service for notebooks
NoteBook FanControl (NBFC) is a cross-platform fan control service for notebooks. It comes with a powerful configuration system, which allows to adjust it to many different notebook models. Currently, there are no pre-built releases for Linux, but you can easily build NBFC yourself. In general the NBFC Wiki is the first place to go if you have any questions. If you want to build NBFC from source, the first thing you have to do is to download the source code. You can easily clone the NBFC repository via git. Make sure the Mono runtime + development tools are installed on your machine (Debian based distros: mono-complete, Arch based distros: mono). Config files are an integral part of NBFC, because they define how NBFC interacts with your notebook's embedded controller (EC). The EC monitors your system's temperatures and controls the fan(s). It sits on the motherboard or is integrated into a Super I/O chip & is connected to the Southbridge via the Low Pin Count (LPC) bus. -
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SpeedFan
SpeedFan is an advanced system monitoring tool
SpeedFan lets you take a deeper view at the status of your computer. Almost every computer includes support for hardware monitoring. Accessing digital temperature sensors is really useful. If you are trying to figure out why your PC hangs when under heavy load or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you 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 (incorrectly) with errors from the operating system. SpeedFan automatically searches your computer for informative chips: the hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can display voltages, fan speeds and temperatures. On rare occasions, the BIOS doesn'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 currently sold hard disk. SpeedFan can access status info from EIDE, SATA and even SCSI drives -
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Lenovo Legion Linux Support
Driver and tools for controlling Lenovo Legion laptops in Linux
Lenovo Legion Linux (LLL) brings additional drivers and tools for Lenovo Legion series laptops to Linux. It is the alternative to Lenovo Vantage or Legion Zone (both Windows only). It allows you to control features like the fan curve, power mode, power limits, rapid charging, and more. This has been achieved through reverse engineering and disassembling the ACPI firmware, as well as the firmware and memory of the embedded controller (EC). -
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ATTENTION: This project is not maintained anymore. Current Macs properly manage temperature and fans. Speed fan controller and temp monitoring for MacBook Pro Unibody (Nvidia) for Windows under BootCamp. It allows to control MacBook fans speeds depending on the CPU and GPU temperature. ATTENTION: This program is designed and tested only on MacBook Pro with NVIDIA GPU. On newer MacBooks with ATI GPU the GPU temperature is not checked. On iMacs some sensors and fans are not used. In any case USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, I'm not responsible for overheating or hardware damage.
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Allows control of fans in Apple computers in Windows and monitoring of temperatures. All Intel Macs supported + any conflicting programs are automatically closed and reopened. Project is no longer being actively developed. See forum for alternatives.
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lm-sensors
lm-sensors repository
lm-sensors is the canonical Linux project for reading motherboard and peripheral hardware sensors—temperatures, fan speeds, voltages—and exposing them to userspace. It ships a probing utility (sensors-detect) that identifies I²C/SMBus chips and kernel drivers, then a runtime tool (sensors) that prints human-readable readings for quick diagnostics. The companion library, libsensors, gives applications a stable API to query sensor values, enabling desktop applets, monitoring daemons, and alerting systems to build on a common foundation. Configuration files map raw chip registers to friendly labels and scaling factors, so outputs reflect real hardware characteristics across many vendors. With this foundation, higher-level tools (like fancontrol or graphical monitors) can automate cooling policies and warn about thermal or power issues before they become failures. -
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MSI Afterburner
MSI Afterburner: Overclock, monitor, and optimize your GPU.
MSI Afterburner is the world's most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking utility. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for gamers and PC enthusiasts to enhance their graphics card's performance and monitor its health. With MSI Afterburner, users can overclock their GPU to achieve higher frame rates in games, undervolt to reduce power consumption and heat, and customize fan curves for optimal cooling. The software also includes an on-screen display (OSD) feature that overlays real-time statistics directly onto games, allowing users to keep track of their system's performance without minimizing their applications. Furthermore, MSI Afterburner supports video recording, enabling users to capture their gameplay or overclocking sessions with ease. Its compatibility with all major graphics card brands makes it an indispensable tool for anyone looking to push their hardware to the limit. -
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Stats
macOS system monitor in your menu bar
Stats currently supported on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and higher. Stats is an application that allows you to monitor your macOS system. CPU utilization, GPU utilization, memory usage, disk utilization, sensors information (Temperature/Voltage/Power), battery level, network usage, fans speed, fan control, and Bluetooth devices. Supports many languages, such as English, Polski, Українська, Русский, and many more. You can help by adding a new language or improve existing translation. -
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thinkfan
fan control for control fans
A simple fan control program. Read temperatures, check them against configured limits and switch to appropriate (also pre-configured) fan level. Requires a working thinkpad_acpi or any other hwmon driver that enables temperature reading and fan control from userspace. -
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HWSensors
All information from hardware sensors on your Mac
HWSensors is a software bundle that includes drivers and applications that allow you to access information from hardware sensors available on your Mac. FakeSMC is an open source SMC device driver/emulator developed by netkas (http://netkas.org/). NOTE: FakeSMC & Plugins starting from v915 provide additional sensors information to HWMonitor then running on Macs. By installing FakeSMC on real Mac you should consider you know what you are doing and how to recover your system if something will goes wrong. All repositories: Sourceforge, sources & downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hwsensors/ BitBucket, sources & downloads: https://bitbucket.org/kozlek/hwsensors/overview Assembla, sources: https://www.assembla.com/code/fakesmc/git/nodes GitHub, sources: https://github.com/kozlek/HWSensors HWSensors Project (c) 2014 netkas, slice, usr-sse2, kozlek, navi, THe KiNG, RehabMan and others. All rights reserved. -
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Open Hardware Monitor for Alienware
Open Hardware Monitor Alienware r10 edition
Open Hardware Monitor for Alienware r10 with automatic and manual fan curves. Replaces AWCC and outdated SpeedFan. -
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TeLOS Linux
humbly smart Operating System - Debian derivative
TeLOS is a new, universal Linux distribution, a carefully customized derivative of Debian bullseye / sid with KDE Plasma Desktop Environment featuring an unbiased selection of useful applications and services. You may find TeLOS Linux to be snappy, lightweight, ready for work or fun straight out of the box and easily configurable. This Operating System is freely distributed and honors free, open source software development. Nevertheless, some non-free proprietary packages are included to widely support common modern hardware. Google Chrome browser and TeamViewer contribute to making this unconventional distribution remote work and distance learning friendly. TeLOStore, our AppStore application, makes installing and uninstalling apps in TeLOS an easy, fast and safe game. TeLOS is suitable both for Linux newcomers and for experienced users. -
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Phoebetria
Software control for the BitFenix Recon fan controller.
Phoebetria lets you take control of your BitFenix Recon fan controller on more operating systems than the official software. It offers all of the same features as the official software, with the exception of remote access, and has been tested on Windows, Linux, and OS X. The current plan is that future releases will add functionality and control that the official software does not provide -- giving you even more control over your fans. -
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Argus Fan Monitor
Control fan speed and monitor the temperature of system components.
Argus Monitor is a powerful fan-control and system-monitoring tool that gives you complete control over cooling behavior across your entire PC. It allows you to manage CPU, GPU, motherboard, and AIO fans using fixed values or advanced temperature-based control curves sourced from any sensor in your system. With multi-controller support, fan profiles, hysteresis, and temperature averaging, Argus Monitor offers smooth, precise fan adjustments with minimal noise fluctuation. The software also includes robust temperature monitoring for CPUs, GPUs, SSDs, RAM, and additional sensor channels. For supported devices, it provides RGB control as well as gadget and tray-icon displays for quick system insights. Lightweight, stable, privacy-respecting, and fully customizable, Argus Monitor is one of the most comprehensive PC cooling and monitoring solutions available. -
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Quiet Fan implements a control loop to set your CPU or motherboard fan speed. This means that it uses the lowest possible fan speed to keep a target temperature, and eliminates damaging hardware temperature oscillations.
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This tool let's you control the frequency and fan settings of your AMD/ATI video card. It depends on the proprietary AMD/ATI Catalyst display driver and makes use of the AMD Display Library (ADL).
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Antec Kuhler 920 Linux Driver/Control
Antec Kuhler 920 Linux Driver/Control
Linux Driver and control program for the Antec H20 - 920 Series liquid coolers. -
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ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
Linux kernel driver for ThinkPad laptops
This is a Linux driver for ThinkPad laptops, written by Borislav Deianov and Henrique de Moraes Holschuh. It aims to support various features of these laptops which are accessible through a ThinkPad-specific ACPI framework. The newest version is available in the latest version of the Linux kernel. -
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autofan is a very simple and light daemon written in C that automatically controls fan speed, according to GPU/board temperature, on an Nvidia-card that doesn't support automatic hardware control. It builds ontop of the nvclock backend.
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AlienFX Tools
Alienware systems lights, fans, and power control tools and apps
AlienFX Tools is a suite of utilities aimed at controlling lighting, fan, and power behaviors on Alienware systems, directly interfacing with USB or ACPI hardware rather than relying on official drivers. This project supports a broad range of effects and modes, allowing users to customize RGB lighting zones, create and switch profiles based on system states (like power source or running applications), and generate lighting behaviors tied to thermal and performance events. Because it operates at a low level, alienfx-tools can offer faster update rates and more flexible configurations compared to some manufacturer software. It includes both command-line and graphical frontend elements to support different user preferences, making it suitable for automation as well as interactive use. Enthusiasts use it to tailor lighting aesthetics and system responsiveness, especially on systems where official Alienware control panels are unavailable or problematic. -
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WebApp to start or stop remotely the computer's fan using HTTP (your computer's Firefox or your iPhone Safari...). Why do you want to do that? It's too impressive to stop the fan from your bed... :)
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FanCtrl
FanCtrl allows you to automatically control the fan speed
FanCtrl is a Windows desktop utility focused on automatically controlling PC fan speeds using temperature sensors and customizable fan curves, so your cooling behavior matches how you actually use your system. It combines monitoring and control in one place, letting you view temperatures, fan RPM, and control percentages while you tune how aggressively each fan responds. The project supports a range of control backends and integrations, including motherboard fan headers and several popular cooling ecosystems, and it can also pull sensor data from common monitoring tools so your fan logic can react to the readings you trust. A core concept is “auto fan control” profiles where you pick a target temperature sensor, select which fans should follow it, and then shape the curve via a graph-like interface. It also includes quality-of-life options like renaming items, choosing units (including Fahrenheit), and starting minimized for a set-it-and-forget-it setup.
