[Hardware] Synchronize your case fans with the GPU in Argus Monitor

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One of the most common problems in terms of cooling and especially optimization in PC is the fact that each component has its own control that, depending on the motherboard, cannot be synchronized with the rest. A very clear example is the fact that the chassis fans do not go up in RPM when the GPU gets hot during use. Therefore, today we show you how to do this synchronization of fans and GPU with Argus Monitor.

 

Argus Monitor is a fairly simple program in appearance, but at the same time it is very complete. It's not very popular, but we can do things other shows can't. In the case that concerns us, synchronizing the fans of our GPU, their temperature and the fans of the case is something that some particular programs of the motherboard manufacturers can do, but they are really few.

Therefore, if your motherboard does not have this software option, if the BIOS makes you dizzy with the configuration options to do the same, Argus Monitor is your simplest solution.

Synchronize the RPM of the chassis and GPU fans with their temperature
The first thing we will do is logically go to the program's website (www.argusmonitor.com) where in the upper right part we will find the download link for the latest version for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

But roughly, what can Argus Monitor do that other similar monitoring programs cannot? The developer quotes it like this:

Viewing and controlling system fan speeds.

 

Viewing and controlling the fan speed of modern NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards.
Monitor your hard drive's temperature and health, constantly checking critical SMART attributes.
It warns you with up to a 70 percent chance before a hard drive fails, in time so you can save all the valuable data added to your system after the last backup.
Graphical display of the temperatures of your hard drives.
Monitoring and graphical display of the GPU temperature.
Graphical display of CPU temperature (independently for each CPU core).
Graphical display of the center frequency (allows you to check if the power management is working).
Benchmark HDD / SSD: measurement of access times and transfer rates.
This among many other things as we will see below. Influence the fact that Argus Monitor is a paid software that has a free evaluation time of 30 days, so that we can investigate it without haste and decide whether to acquire it or not.

Having said this and having downloaded the program, the installation in Windows goes through the typical next, next, next for ordinary mortals, since there is not an option that we really have to mark or unmark as such.

This is what the Argus Monitor will look like from the start. As we can see, we have two clearly differentiated sections: tabs and information. For the task that we are going to carry out, we will have to navigate to the motherboard tab.

 

The next and last step is to click on the Curve button, where we will see a new and small window like the one above, very much in the MSI Afterburner style. In it we can select the PWM of the fan in% according to the temperature that the GPU reaches. Remember that we are synchronizing the chassis fans with the temperature of the GPU, not the fans of the GPU itself, which will go to your love depending on the SKUs that the BIOS of that card has.

As we can see, it is fully customizable, after which we can save the curve to practice with another without losing the values, rename it, open a previous one or delete it. The Hysteresis section refers to the number of degrees of delay for any point on the curve to be applied.

It is a fine adjustment in case the GPU is set to intermediate values and does not stop oscillating, for example, between 60 or 61 or 62 degrees Celsius, where the fans would be constantly varying the speed.