FanControl.Releases VS FanCtrl

You don't really need PID, just a decent fan curve with https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

This app relatively the same feature, but is not open source and run only on Windows

An all-in-one solution for controlling fans called... Fan Control: https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

As an aside, Jayztwocents once featured this neat fan control software you might be interested in. Interested to know what pcmr reddit's opinion of this software is, too

However all of these will be relatively loud if run at full speed. Which might be the real issue here. You should check your motherboard's bios to see if there are any options for fan speed controls, and set your case fans to 50%. Or you can use FanControl to adjust this within Windows. This assumes your case fans are PWM fans, and that the motherboard is setup to recognize them as PWM fans. If the case fans are DC fans (they use a 3 pin connector) or the motherboard only has DC fan headers (also 3 pin) for some reason, then you won't easily be able to control their speed from the motherboard. However you can buy inline resistor cables to slow down DC fans to make them quieter as an alternative.

However, you might be able to fix the problem without replacing the fans. You can try looking in the motherboard's BIOS for fan control options and reduce the speed of the case fans. Or use FanControl to do it from within Windows. This assumes the fans used in the case are PWM and not DC fans, and are plugged into the correct header on the motherboard, and in some cases the fans aren't incorrectly set to be DC fans in the BIOS.

u/xamphear as for Github, well no it's not open source, I'm basically just lazy and initially hosted there so I could refer stuff easily in other repo, namely https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor, and have a built-in issue manager so users could easily report stuff and interact with me. Back then I had no where near as many users as I have now. It just so happen Jayz video came up and the repo blew up. Haven't seen any specific rule preventing me from using Github like this, and it worked surprisingly well so far for the intended use case, even at the current scale. Recently made a website to transition the "main page" there https://getfancontrol.com/. Traffic is slowly transitioning to it, so the github page will likely stay up for a while.

Stopping the fan would cause damage, so yeah, don't do it. But a similar (visual) tool exists for windows: https://github.com/lich426/FanCtrl

Check out: https://github.com/lich426/FanCtrl

But if you guys prefer something with clunky UI but with HWiNFO64 integration, FanCtrl is another great tool which has been around forever.