Laptop Fan Control

[Creatorbros3]

I have an Asus ROG G15 AMD Advantage Edition Laptop. 5980HX with an RX 6800M. I would like a way to set a custom fan curve without using Armoury Crate. It seemed to really bog the system down and was overall overkill for a hardware monitor / configuration tool imo. If you think I am mistaken in that conclusion, let me know please. One thing it did have was a fan control option where I could set a curve. Having removed it completely from my system and disabled it in the BIOS, I would now like to find a simple fan control software that won't bloat my system.

Any suggestions? The fans ramp up pretty much immediately upon startup and don't slow down until I turn it off. Just scrolling in task manager with all other apps closed is enough to get them rolling pretty good.

Upon googling, I have found plenty of suggestions - but I am unsure which ones would actually be good, from reputable suggestions, and which ones are potentially malware/ransomware. I do have Norton, so not a massive risk - but I still like to avoid such things.

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

I like this. I've used it on quite a few laptops of varying sorts.

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

its just called FanControl, works well.

there is also this

https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor

If you really need nitty-gritty control of things, but be prepared for a more complex setup process with Libre Hardware Monitor.

 

[Uns1gn3d_C0d3]

Any suggestions? The fans ramp up pretty much immediately upon startup and don't slow down until I turn it off. Just scrolling in task manager with all other apps closed is enough to get them rolling pretty good.

Sounds like a thorough cleanup and repaste is in order. Unless you were monkeying around with settings that have the fans running full tilt all the time?

If you're certain it isn't the latter, then I suggest the former be done first.

 

[Creatorbros3]

Sounds like a thorough cleanup and repaste is in order. Unless you were monkeying around with settings that have the fans running full tilt all the time?

If you're certain it isn't the latter, then I suggest the former be done first.

I have never done that to a laptop before. I have had this just over a year and it has done it pretty much from the start. I have the laptop set to balanced in Windows Power settings.

I like this. I've used it on quite a few laptops of varying sorts.

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

its just called FanControl, works well.

there is also this

https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor

If you really need nitty-gritty control of things, but be prepared for a more complex setup process with Libre Hardware Monitor.

I tried both, but my laptop doesn't seem to allow any control of the fans manually. No fan controllers come up to manipulate the speeds. Guess I am stuck with vanilla settings.

 

[Uns1gn3d_C0d3]

I have never done that to a laptop before. I have had this just over a year and it has done it pretty much from the start. I have the laptop set to balanced in Windows Power settings.

It isn't hard, and I'm sure you could find a teardown video online. If you're skiddish, you could probably find someone local.

Your fans shouldn't be doing that all the time. Do you have any temperature monitoring software installed? I would be interested to see what temps look like under load.

 

[kurosagi01]

I use this on my Zephyrus g14:

GitHub - seerge/g-helper: Lightweight Armoury Crate alternative for Asus laptops and ROG Ally. Control tool for ROG Zephyrus G14, G15, G16, M16, Flow X13, Flow X16, TUF, Strix, Scar and other models

Lightweight Armoury Crate alternative for Asus laptops and ROG Ally. Control tool for ROG Zephyrus G14, G15, G16, M16, Flow X13, Flow X16, TUF, Strix, Scar and other models - seerge/g-helper

github.com

A light weight version of armoury crate.

 

[Creatorbros3]

I use this on my Zephyrus g14:

GitHub - seerge/g-helper: Lightweight Armoury Crate alternative for Asus laptops and ROG Ally. Control tool for ROG Zephyrus G14, G15, G16, M16, Flow X13, Flow X16, TUF, Strix, Scar and other models

Lightweight Armoury Crate alternative for Asus laptops and ROG Ally. Control tool for ROG Zephyrus G14, G15, G16, M16, Flow X13, Flow X16, TUF, Strix, Scar and other models - seerge/g-helper

github.com

A light weight version of armoury crate.

I'll look into this. I had armoury crate running before to control stuff and silent mode was the only thing that ever made them slow down. Even on silent mode it would still crank the fans sometimes. It seemed like AC was taking a lot of processing power a lot of times. If it was open, it would show like 3-4 different related tasks running in task manager and collectively they could be bumping the CPU up to 20% or even more sometimes. Seemed dumb and unnecessary. Especially with a 12-core 5980HX.