In message , VanguardLH
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

So when I'm doing relatively little, and the fan suddenly ramps up and
then down again, I'm not left wondering "what caused that?"

To check the fan RPM along with temperatures (CPU, GPU, case), I use
Speedfan. There are probably other monitor-only tools but I need
Speedfan because the BIOS fails to control the CPU fan (always has it
run full speed). You could monitor the fan RPMs along with the

I have Speedfan, mainly to use for its ability to look at temperatures;
like you and your fans, I'm sure there are monitor-only temperature
utilities, but SpeedFan does the job and I had it. For monitoring the
fan, I find my ears suffice (-:

temperatures associated to them (CPU temp for CPU fan, etc) to make sure
it truly is a rise in temperature that causes the fan RPM to bounce up.
It is possible something bumps up the fan speed independent of
temperature.

This is a laptop - only one fan. I think it's somewhere around the left
of the keyboard - it certainly blows out the left side. It certainly
_seems_ to follow temperature - but then temperature seems to follow CPU
usage pretty closely too.

I'll have to think about a CPU usage threshold monitor for a bit. Still
need some coffee.
Maybe a scrolling window of the highest-usage process names. With a
little bit of memory (as a scrolling window would intrinsically have),
so you can ask yourself "what caused that" (brief surge), rather than
"what's causing that".
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

We need a reversal of the old saying: "DON'T do unto others as you would have
them NOT do unto you." (Paraphrase from "The Moral Maze", 1998-11-21: it was an
attempt - quite good I thought - to get a modern [and non-specific] version.)