While it runs smoothly for all I need to do, 20 minutes after starting the CPU fan starts to get super loud. Here, the fan power is in the palm of your hands.I switched an old Imac (2008) to Lubuntu. Out of its competitors, it provides the most customizable options which means that there will be a lot of fan curve types that you'll be able to personalize based on various temperatures or conditions. More fan power controlįanControl is the best tool option to have when you want to be in full control of your GPU and CPU fan. It provides a modern and sophisticated dashboard-style UI, which can also work in the background. This simple utility gives you the power to save, edit, and load multiple profiles as well as read temperature from many sources including CPU, GPU, motherboard, hard drivers, and the. Not only that, it can fine-tune the fan control feedback with steps, activation percentage, hysteresis, and response time parameters. The graph fan curve editor that it provides can add, remove and drag points around the graph. Moreover, Sync coincides with an existing control while Flat permits you to set a fixed percentage value. The Mix allows you to use two different curves and apply a mix function-either max or sum-on it. Target curve type, on the other hand, holds fans' speed until your aimed temperature is reached. Linear and Graph types based the temperature on linear function and custom curve respectively. There are six fan curve types that you can utilize here.

It enables you to combine various curves, sensors, and graphs and even create custom fan curves. However, what makes FanControl unique among them is its high customization capability. Frankly, there are tons of applications in the market that offer the same.

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