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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.
Features
- Customizable fan control curves driven by multiple sensor inputs (CPU, GPU, motherboard, drives, etc.)
- Ability to mix or combine sensor values (max, min, average, etc.) to drive fan behavior dynamically
- Profiles system letting you save, switch, and load multiple fan-speed configurations for different use-cases
- Manual as well as automatic fan control modes
- Plugin architecture to extend support to additional sensors or fan-controller hardware
- Relatively lightweight and user-friendly UI with portable and installer versions available
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