For people that want to do something similar on Windows, I can wholeheartedly recommend FanControl [1]. It's sadly not open-source, but it works great, and is quite pleasant to interact with.
[0] https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor
In my 15 years of PC building this fan software tops them all. Huge amount of customisation and actually allows you to control fan speeds both under CPU OR GPU heavy loads at once.
This software can do what this article is looking to do, but I am not sure if there is a non-Windows version.
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- one you might expect to be open source, since there is no monetary interest behind it besides an option to donate, and
- one that would potentially lend itself quite well to being open source, since it would offer a great base for other people to tinker around with their own cooling setups.
But seems over time we’ve moved away from shareware and maybe open source to open source shareware. I’m trying to grasp how the expectations of people have changed over time. Not looking to start a flame war.
You're commenting on a discussion on how someone leveraged this sort of open source software to improve cooling.
Their linked GitHub repo, which only has a compiled zip uploaded for release artifact creation, not the code:
> https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases
From the repo:
"Sources for this software are closed."
I wonder why the author hasn't open sourced it - there doesn't appear to be any commercial aspect to the tool, and the author makes a point of it being "free" on the site.
Not everything is about LLMs.