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what's up guys Jays two cents here and I'm gonna do a video I have been asked to do literally as long as my channel has been around I don't know why it's taking me so long to do this I even said on Tech Talk the other night that I was going to do this video and you guys flipped out like yes please do this video and that is like the ultimate how to set up speed fan guide because although it's an amazing free utility to control your fans and actually a lot of other things you can do with this utility on your system today we're just going to focus on fan control though it's not the easiest to set up and in fact it can be very very difficult for most people to understand all of the gibberish that's on the screen so today that is what we are going to help you do it's a free utility download it now the link is in the description they didn't sponsor this video I'm just so that I don't get a ton of people going how do you download it and put it in the description and then we'll we will do some 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head on over to Squarespace com / Jays two cents and use offer code J's now or after the video or just pause the video go and come back that'd work too alright so here's the program right here if you guys don't know where to get it again just look in the description of this video and I put a link a link there so you guys can download it it's completely free I don't want to be bombarded with a bunch of people go where do you get the program on Google Google's your friend - but anyway it's called speedfan SPE SPE edy and it's hard to say ee e anyway I digress I've got a camera down here wanting out my fans that we're going to use for example so that you at least can see it working if I was just showing you how to click a bunch of buttons and you didn't see the effect of it then that would be a really shitty tutorial and I don't want the tutorial to be any shittier then it's already going to be because I'm the one making it but anyway let's go and open up speedfan here yes windows I want to open it so I clicked it stupid anyway here it is right here what it's doing right now is it is scanning all of the different busses on your motherboard it's learning where everything is that way it knows how to control itself now the problem is once this is done you see all this information right you see your CPU usage you see all your threads you see fans right here normally you'll see rpms I don't have RPM showing on mine because I'm using a splitter or splitters and it just yeah anyway it messes up that you can see all your temperatures here for your GPUs and you can see your motherboard temps and CPU and all that stuff and then you can see you have your different PWM s and what tends to happen right here and people go all this software sucks is they start trying to control their fans going but nothing's happening da the software sucks this is this is stupid but guys what you have to do is be fans you have to configure it now this program is made by you know it's completely free it's all made by I think it's one guy who just does this as a hobby it's not like getting a ton of support meaning he's not going to go and pre configure this so that it sets up for every single motherboard on the market that's impossible to do so you have to actually use the scanner up here to try and learn where everything is on your motherboard so as you can see right here I set PWM to zero and as you can see by looking at the camera down here my fans are still going full speed nothing has changed so what you're going to do next you're going to hit configure that's going to bring up this guy right here and make it so you can actually see this I guess and then you're going to go over here to advanced now real quick there's a lot of things we can do on here there's there's lots and lots of function built into speedfan but today we are focusing only on fan control because if you can't get the fan control to work then you might not be interested in what the rest of the software can do so right now yes fan can is all that we are going to do now if you click on advanced right here you get this drop down here and it shows you all of the busses here on your chips you can see we've got our three video cards now we've got this one right here this dollar sign a 4-0 on is a that's actually going to be where our pwms are here they are PWM 1 2 & 3 and you can see the modes are set to on/off now the only one I'm going to worry about right now is PWM mode 1 that's the header I've got my fans plugged into for my GPU loop and that's what we're going to use as our demonstration today but as you can see by having it set to on/off it's literally just that the fans are either on full speed or off and the motherboard is what actually set that when the motherboard booted up so all this did was scan what was going on with the PWM what did the motherboard have pre-configured and then speedfan will match that setting rather than trying to take over so what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to look at the drop-down here for set 2 and you can see we've got on/off software-controlled on/off smart guardian now you might see some different things in your motherboard again this is not going to be exact for your motherboard there are going to be a lot of different variations every single motherboard BIOS is setup different so you're going to have to play around with this what I'm trying to do with today's video it's just more or less give you the direction of where to go to start learning how to use this software now I don't know why on/off is listed twice I truly don't smart guardian when I set that again nothing happens on my motherboard but on your motherboard they might slow down suddenly because you see how right here on its own when I click smart guardian that went down to 27% that's where the fans should theoretically be spinning at but as you can see right here they are still running full speed like absolutely full speed nothing changed or noisy absolutely atrocious so we're going to go back to configure go back to advanced go back to that chip we're going to change the setting again now yours might say manual yours might say temperature offset it might you might see a bunch of different things here than what I see so again you're going to have to play with it manual will more than likely be what you would expect it to be manual but there should be a setting they're called software-controlled and what that means is let speedfan control the fans it's basically saying override the PWM bus and let my software speedfan control the fans so when I click that watch what's going to happen oh dang you see that look at the fans see they're slowing down oh my gosh they're like super quiet now and this load all the way down to 27 percent because as you can see that's by default where the PWM went to now once you figure out which one it is and which one works click this button here that says remember it if you don't every time you open the software this is going to revert back to wherever the motherboard sets it to so hit OK check it out we now have fan control I literally just turned my fans off cool isn't it now I could be that all the way up to 100 if I wanted BAM like that now they're going back to 100% I could also set that to 50% whatever I could set it to 48 if I want because 50s just for noobs all right J that's all fine and dandy but I what if I want my fans to speed up when things get hot and slow down or even straight up turn off when things are not needed when it comes to you know things are running nice and cool what if we don't need all that those those fans spinning we're we're not under load well sir or madam or child I'm glad you asked because if you go back into configure you have fan control now you've got advanced fan control you're going to want to click that by default it's not going to be clicked now you're going to add a fan controller so we are going to add let's name this same this GPU control all right GPU fan control we'll call it that ok cool we've done that now what nothing happened I mean nothing's happening so what do we do well you're going to go back into your fan control you're going to click on that and as you can see you now get a drop-down here with a bunch of stuff so we're going to click click controlled speed because we want to control it we want to set up PWM one because that's the one I have this is the header that controls that fan and are these fans right down here and you're going to have to kind of label these yourself trying to figure out PWM one is PWM one on my motherboard is actually system fan one not CPU fan or any of that believe it or not my motherboard won't allow me to control CPU fan via speed fan so you're going to have to play around that so I'm not using the CPU headers at all on this motherboard so anyway we're going to control PWM one now on the method I always use some of speeds instead of max of speeds now on temperatures you have to now tell speed fan what do you want to control the speed what temperature probe are you going to use to control the speeds so you can hit add then you get this little pop-up here which shows you all of the different temperatures that are located inside of your system so these are all the temperature probes we've got our three GPUs we've got temp one two and three these are actually going to be my chipset and vrm I've got our hard drive temperatures because believe it or not your hard drives and your SSDs actually have temperature probes in them and then you have got all of your different cores right here now I'm going to use GPU one which is the top one listed here to control the fans that you see here on this camera because this is my main GPU radiator so I'm going to hit okay so when you click this right here this is your fan curve okay you can see we've got a range of 30 C to 60 C so that says 30 C or below will run a minimum of whatever this dot is set to and then this says right here at 60 C it will be a hundred percent so anything above 60 C will ramp these fans up to 100 now you can pull this in by clicking the left arrow arrow so as you can see iran or an arrow is anyway as I click that left you can see now our range is going to be commander right now our range is between 30 and 50 and because I have water-cooled GPUs I'm going to set these this to maybe 55 and I'm going to set the lower number here much lower so that we don't have the fans speeding up because again water-cooled yeah you know you know what I'm saying there so this is what our curve looks like right there okay we'll hit okay again nothing happened what the heck it's still at zero well it's because you have to click automatic fan speed now watch what happens when I click this BAM that jumped up to 22 the fans didn't actually kick on you can see they're kind of trying but that's only because I've got four fans actually actually I technically have eight fans hooked up to that particular circuit so we need to make our lower we need to make our start speed Jets a little bit higher so we'll do that we'll hit okay ah there they go so now that 30% is where we are idling now and as we start up things like heaven benchmark and whatnot it's going to ramp up and slow down now as one other thing we actually have to configure here and that's because speed fan has a safeguard that says if temperatures reach a certain warning level then just max out the fan just ramp the fans up as fast as they'll freaking go because we're trying to save our and we don't want to blow up and that's going to be right here where it says GPU GPU and GPU and if that's what we're using to control our fans you need to set the warning right here the warning is set to 70 C and I have it basically two things are going to happen if our temperature on the graphics cards and you have to set these individually reach 70 C a pop-up is going to come up at the bottom of the screen and say warning GPU has exceeded 70 C or whatever that setting is and then it's going to ramp the fans to 100% to control yo to try and cool itself down now watch what happens if I set this to say 20 C absolutely nothing there goes we got a little flame showing right here because we're at 30 C so we're above threshold of where I said it do you see how the fans ramped up to a hundred yeah it's it thinks right now that it's overheating and the little pop-up came up it just came up on my other screen so I'm going to set this back to 70 okay now watch that little thing went away and we went back down to 31 C so you can set where your warning temperatures are so that you can keep an eye on things you can even make a little audio thing happen you know a little beeping and stuff - that's really loud and obnoxious to kind of get your attention like hey you shits running really hot but anyway guys that's really all there is to it when it comes to speed fan there's a lot of other things you can do with this again I kept this very specific to speed fan or the fan speed control because as you can see this video is still pushing 15 minutes or more just showing you how to control that but I hope that that has helped you guys here oh and check this out if I have automatic fan speeds selected and I try and manually slow that down being it goes right back to 31 so you can't you can't accidentally change that you're just going to let it control itself yep there you go so yeah that's how how I control my fans so many people ask me how I control my fans this is how I do it this is how I've always done it and yeah it works out great for me so I got these fans set to run really whisper-quiet 30 30 percent or 31 percent when I'm not gaming when I'm gaming everything will then ramp up pretty quickly anyway guys thanks for watching I hope you've enjoyed today's video and tutorial if you want me to cover more topics in the future regarding software you know settings and controls let me know I'm going to do some overclocking stuff coming up for 1080 showing you how to do overclocking on that because it's actually a little different on the Pascal cards and we'll talk about that very very soon and I I need you guys to kind of help me just decide what it is you want to see so anyway time to get out of here thanks for watching guys and I will see you in the next video whatever that may be probably tomorrow yeah I've said too much