Fan control in Windows

I completely agree Trevor! I just tried to install Fan Control and as expected it didn’t find a single fan that it could interact with or read the values from which is really odd considering that my desktop computer brings up every single fan in my case including the ones connected to my AIO, CPU and even the two fans on my GPU as separately controllable entities. This open-source utility even found the fans on my old Razerblade Pro laptop and gave me limited control of them.

Perhaps Framework is concerned that if they open up this functionality that people will turn the fans down to avoid the noise and risk reducing the life of the hardware creating potential warranty nightmares for them or the opposite where people overclock things since they can just run the fans at 100% all the time if they want too and that could lead to some extra wear and tear. But, the truth is almost all components in a PC now days have thermal monitoring and either throttle or lock up if they exceed their thermal limits to protect themselves so I don’t believe this would be a problem at the end of the day so long as they didn’t let people disable the upper thermal limits the unit is warrantied under.

I’d love to see someone from Framework jump in here and explain why they don’t want to give control of the fans to the end user because I think it would help a lot of people because I’ve seen quite a few threads where people were willing to trade performance for a quieter experience and this would give them that option. And then you would have people like me that would use super aggressive fan curves to keep things even cooler than normal because we don’t care how loud our laptop is since we’re basically deaf from all the constant noise in our environments that we choose to live in! :rofl:

C’mon Framework! Give the people some fan control baby! I want to use http://getfancontrol.com on my epic laptop! :pray:

Jerry (aka. Barnacules)

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I’m in complete agreement. Framework’s primary segment and evangelists are custom PC aficionados. Fan control, along with frequent bios updates*, should be critical to their business strategy. Their support could also use a business analyst writing some published troubleshooting workflows (me? haha) to make the support experience more consistent. 30-50 emails to explain what the user should provide in terms of video evidence of issues is inefficient and angers their evangelists. As a support person, would also be frustrating not to have expectation guide rails.

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  • They are fixing I hear - I’d expect bios updates at least twice yearly.
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That would be wonderful.