Nvidia Linux Set Fan Speed

On windows it is simple i set it for 40 around 900 920rpm added this setting to nvidia control panel and enabled it to launch on windows start.

Nvidia linux set fan speed. In this tutorial i m going to teach a way to automatically and manually control the fan speed of an nvidia graphics card on linux with proprietary driver s at boot and reboot. If nvclock doesn t recognize your video card you can try the force option. So im trying ubuntu again after being off it for awhile in win7 i can set gpu fan to 10 30 and its barly reaching 52c however with ubuntu nvidia set it to 55 wich is really loud on my msi 460gtx. Now you can adjust the fan speed.

Coolbits are set in section screen. This is the only thing that keeps me from using ubuntu is there really no program or way to set manually like msi afterburner evga precision temperature curve fan speed. Sudo nvidia xconfig enable all gpus allow empty initial configuration cool bits 7. My nvidia graphic card has bios that enables fan when temperature reaches 60 c degrees.

Above command creates sections for each gpu in the system. The tutorial will give you two methods the first one is done by adding the coolbits component and the second one is done with nvclock. Controlling fan speed manually 2. The argument to fanspeed is the pwm percentage which is not the same as the percent of fanspeed.

Adjust the fan speed to a noise level you can live with that also doesn t let your video card get too hot. In this tutorial we will see how to adjust gpu fan speed for nvidia graphics cards under ubuntu or linux mint. In linux the fan speed is not controlled by default and the card itself auto adjusts the fan speed. Nvclock fanspeed 40 note.