Heat is the eternal enemy of all laptops and I'm serious about cooling my laptop down after 10 hours of straight blogging. Even with the aircon switched on in the room, it's good to ensure my laptop gets all the cooling it needs. With a cooling pad at the bottom, its a safe bet to also add a software to monitor the laptop's internal fans. SpeedFan 4.29 does a great job to monitor the temperature, thus reducing noise and power consumption.
SpeedFan monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitor chips. It can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. It can even change the FSB on some hardware. At the lowest level, it is a hardware monitor software, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption.
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