Hi again. I've got an irritating problem annoyance with fan speed and I've finally noticed what the problem is; My motherboard bases the fan speed on the motherboard TEMPERATURES. The problem with this is that the minimum settable temperature to begin INCREASING fan speed is 40°C, which is the highest my mobo will ever get to. So I have the option of fans constantly set at 40% or 100%. I tried toying about with Speedfan but unfortunately it seems that my motherboard does not allow for external influence... A case of can't do wont do.

So I'm left with looking for a suitable fan controller. One which can be programmed to adjust the fan speeds based on CPU temperature, preferably one which Speedfan can interface with. Unless anyone has any ideas as to how to get around a poorly programmed BIOS.

I have found a few promising items but some look a little flaky:
http://geoffg.net/fancontroller.html
http://www.velocityreviews.com/articles/sunbeam-theta-usb-fan-controller.37/
http://koolance.com/tms-205-software-thermal-interface-controller


[Btw, my computer doesn't need EXTRA air flow it would just be nice for the expensive fans I've bought to work nicely]

[Also FIY for those who remember, the mouse problem is on hold. I will get back to it]I had a system that needed extra cooling other than the CPU and wanted it to trigger to spin fans only when needing to cool the system so that it wasnt full bore 80mm fans going constantly. I ended up getting a hardware fan controller with temp alarm that fit into the 5.25" bay and it allowed you to program the set points of at what temp C or F to turn the fans on. I believe it also had a scale such as 50% fan speed at a certain temp and then 100% fan speed at another temp. But I just programmed it to kick on when it got too WARM in specific areas of the internal computer components. It had 2 thermocouples that I ended up using a drop of thermal compound and tape to attach them to internal case temp as well as HDD temp of some early 10k RPM SATA HDD's that ran hot. It was able to control 2 channels based on 2 thermocouple sensors.

The one I had was similar to this one, but mine had 2 thermocouples that I was able to place at key areas of thermal concern. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811992005

This isnt a software means of temp control, but wanted to share this option as for I used this hardware option with a server years ago and it worked well.Sorry Dave, I just realised that I forgot to reply.

This looks like it might just do the job, thanksGlad this might be a solution for you and no problem with delay getting back about this.