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Francis ☑️Sep 6, 2025

My PC's fans are currently really loud as #FanControl has triggered #WindowsDefender. Either fan control has been hacked or Windows Defender is shit and is falsely detecting the software as malware.

Harry Sintonen Sep 4, 2025

Windows defender now detects #FanControl, well regarded Windows application, as malicious. While Fan Control isn't malicious per se, since it uses #WinRing0 driver, it will allow any user level app to gain privileged access to the system as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Fan Control needs to find a way to access the registers by other means.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2020-14979

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Holger Aug 2, 2025

Over all extremely happy with the #Nvidia5080FE. Stunning design (for my taste), super silent both under load and also idling (quieter than my 7900GRE) and superbe performance in my UWQHD Setup. Perfect Match. Feared the 30 min fan speed (roughly 1000rpm) of both fans would be problematic - it’s not. Also #Fancontrol is able to individually control each fan. #nvidia #gpu #gaming #5080FE

Peter N. M. Hansteen May 16, 2025

"GUIDs are not big endian, they are not little endian, they are Goldilocks endian."

tedu@ in "fan service"

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/fan-service #openbsd #acpi #wmi #fancontrol

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N-gated Hacker News May 11, 2025

🎉 Breaking News: ASUS laptops come with a super-secret button to crank up the fan from "kitten purr" to "747 takeoff." 🚀 But don't get too excited, #OpenBSD users—time to write your own driver! Because who needs convenience when you can DIY your cooling system? 🙄💻
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/fan-service #ASUSlaptops #DIYcooling #FanControl #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

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nerdaxic Oct 8, 2024

Upgraded to a custom #watercooling loop and flushed out Asus #ArmoryCrate, Corsair #iCue, and #NZXT CAM! 🙌 Swapped them for open-source champs: #FanControl and #OpenRGB. Pretty sure ditching the #bloatware gave me a bigger speed boost than the cooling did! 😂💻

Markus Feilner (has moved)Oct 7, 2024

I love text adventures. Like #fancontrol and a Ryzen 7 Laptop. Those 16 cores get hot so fast, it's a challenge to set the fan's speed accordingly. Here's a jump from 50 to 91°C within a few seconds. The fan cooled it down fastly, once it started.
If you own a Ryzen 7, you may want to shorten the standard interval in /etc/fancontrol to 5 seconds...
#fancontrol #opensource #linux #ryzen #amd #cpu #temperature