tpfancontrol Temperatures for your ThinkPad

Just came across this great utility which lets you control fan speeds for your Thinkpad notebooks. Though I am not using to modify fan speeds settings, I found it useful to check on temperatures for your CPU, APS, PCM, BAT, BUS, PCI, PWR etc.

The utility itself is available at sourceforge and you can download it at this url.

After downloading the latest v0.18 release, extract the zip folder onto your hard drive and right-click fancontrol.exe and run with administrator privileges.

Either you'll get a window straightaway or there'll be an icon in notification area (bottom right corner of your screen).

With a photoshop cs3 window, and a firefox window with 7 tabs open, my CPU temperature is 63degrees and fan speed 3321 rpm.

It'll be great insight if everyone can share their cpu temperatures and fan speeds too.

PS: This tool will not change anything on your system, and neither I am asking you to change anything.

 

CPU is @ 100% load because I fold.

 

Dazzy, your notebook looks to be really calm even at 100% CPU load. Mine, on the other hand, has the following stats at 4-7% CPU usage and 50% RAM usage. I am using Vista Ultimate 32bit.

 

Yeah, it's a great little utility. I've been using this for a couple years with no problems. I've got my settings on 50 (0), 52 (1), 55 (3), 60 (5), 70 (128), and it's running as a service. It's definitely allowed me to enjoy this computer a lot more without getting annoyed at the fan.

 

I have never cleaned the fan, nor the heat sink since I purchased my T61 back in August last year and it seems the right time to do it myself.. or get it serviced by Lenovo.

I can not imagine any other reason for my T61 to get so overheated at 10% CPU Usage and 4-7% disk activity.

 

the latest version is 0.50 Search it up

if you want to stress out your CPU, then I can point you towards a CPU loader program that hits it at 100% computing for as long as you want, so that you see what the temp would max out at. Mine hit 82 deg C after the 5th minute ... same as what my GPU hits when overclocked (which is always, lol) and playing games

 

I just got an X300 and am having problems with TPFancontrol. I setup the following parameters:

I have it set on "Smart Fan". However, when the temp gets to 60 it goes to Fan Speed 2 as it should. But when the temp drops back below 60, it doesn't drop back down to Fan Speed 1. How do I fix this?

Now if I toggle it to BIOS mode, then back to Smart mode, it will drop back down to Speed 1. But it will then creep back up to Speed 2 at 60 degrees and stay there even when the temp drops.

I'm using Vista Business and the 54 version of TPFancontrol

 

Actually it is .54:
http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/donate.html

Cool to see that people are starting to get things to run without admin rights. Tried out .2 from the sourceforge link in the OP and it seem to work fine, might have to download .54 and keep it for some later date.

 

^ now it is .. yes . When I posted this it was 0.50

10x

 

Fan speed would no go to Speed 1 until temp reaches 50C. Try my values:

Levels= 45°C -> 0, 49°C -> 1, 60°C -> 2, 65°C -> 3, 70°C -> 0x80