How do I confirm that my CPU cooler speed is variable ?

NRT said:

ickymay said:

yes

AddRAM said:

Your BIOS will give you the best reading. There are also settings you can use to change the speed.

ken9122 said:

NRT said:

anybody plz confirm my previous question...

Those temps are low so it's still on idle. need to get to above 50C or so to speed up the fan on most standard Bios settings.

Ken

Thank u all for replying.... :)

I'm currently encoding a movie. My CPU is running at 59C. CPU fan 1921 RPM. Case fan 1982. Ambient 42C

NRT said:

Thank u for the info Quickdraw2011... :)

No problemo!

A Guy said:

HWMonitor will list min and max CPU fan speed.



A Guy

The utility Fanspeed shows min and max by hovering the curser over fans. I believe it's an older utility and not as detailed as HWMonitor.

You can go to BIOS or dowload speedfan to monitor the fan speed of the cooler actually. Then you can play around with the setting to see if the fan is moving up and down.

quickdraw2011 said:

NRT said:

ickymay said:

yes

ken9122 said:

Those temps are low so it's still on idle. need to get to above 50C or so to speed up the fan on most standard Bios settings.

Ken

Thank u all for replying.... :)

I'm currently encoding a movie. My CPU is running at 59C. CPU fan 1921 RPM. Case fan 1982. Ambient 42C

Forgot to mention, the rig I'm using to encode a movie is an old XP machine, with single core processor. Pentium 4 Prescott Core (P4). They run hot!

Check out this article.

Testing Thermal Throttling in Pentium 4 CPUs with Northwood and Prescott cores