Whenever I'm in the Thieves Guild, or traveling on a forested road just south of Morthal, I get screen flickering every 5-10 seconds. It's distracting, and leaves me worrying about the effect it has on my GPUs. If I alt-tab to my desktop and crank my fan speed up by 5-10% through a program called Vtune though, the flickering vanishes. So clearly it's a heat issue with my cards, and better fan control solves the issue.

Trouble is, I can't find a way to make Vtune's default dynamic fan speed setting work 5% faster than normal. I'd love to edit a setting so that when it calculates the needed fan speed at any given time, it then adds an additional 5% on top automagically. Having to alt-tab to manually switch between dynamic control and a specific speed every time I'm entering/leaving the Thieves Guild is annoying.

Are there any fan speed control applications out there that can do this? Is there a way to make Vtune do this?

Thanks for reading ^^

You could buy a fan controller. It hooks in to the PWMs that the fans use and control the speed via a knob or button system.

I use MSI Afterburner. You can take the fan off 'auto' and set it to whatever speed you like. http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

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One thing I would check for is dust in the heatsinks of the GPU and the PC. Dust could have built up so that the stock fan speeds are no longer adequate. Your PC is really a vacuum cleaner for your room.

Get a can of compressed air and blow things out. Careful that you don't blow air directly on the fans as that can mess up their bearings. If you have not done this in a while, or ever, then do yourself a favor and take the PC outside before you blow out the dust. You will thank me later.

Can I do this in-game though? I can already do that with Vtune (came with my PC) but only from the desktop. Alt-tabbing quickly gets annoying for this task.

Haha, thanks. I'll see if I can find a can from a supermarket or something. No idea where you'd buy it, but I'm sure I can track some down in town. Also, where are the heatsinks? Or should I just blast the entire card (from an angle, to avoid hitting the fan directly) just to be safe?

All electronics stores sell compressed air, generally. There's usually a few types: the cheap ones, which include a chemical that is generally harmful to the components in the long run, and a more expensive one that uses a similar compound but is better. I think the latter compound has a higher number in chemical terms.

Also you could ghetto-rig a 120mm fan to the GPU, quieter and cooler from my experience! (Though depends on the cooler design)

That's what I've now got after an accident with a loose wire in a case off, power on situation!