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SSD Fan Control VS GreenWithEnvy

Compare SSD Fan Control VS GreenWithEnvy and see what are their differences

SSD Fan Control logo SSD Fan Control

Sometimes Mac users have to heavily rely on the external hardware system in order to control and monitor the performance of the fan of the Mac.

GreenWithEnvy logo GreenWithEnvy

Utility to provide information and overclock your NVIDIA card
  • SSD Fan Control Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-02-02
  • GreenWithEnvy Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-04-27

SSD Fan Control videos

Solving Heating Issue in Macbook using SSD Fan Control App

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SSD Fan Control and GreenWithEnvy)
Monitoring Tools
44 44%
56% 56
Log Management
60 60%
40% 40
Gaming
0 0%
100% 100
OS & Utilities
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, GreenWithEnvy should be more popular than SSD Fan Control. It has been mentiond 37 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SSD Fan Control mentions (4)

  • Questions about saving/re-using an old Mac.
    5) your fans may run on high after replacement of the drive because the lack Apple specific temp sensors. You can get a utility called ssd fan control set it to smart control and to start up with the system. You won’t have to worry about loud fans after that. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • 2011 iMac - 10.13.6 This starts on part of or entire display. Relaunch of Finder stops it sometimes. Any ideas what's causing it ?
    Keep in mind that when you swap the HDD on these iMacs, you'll lose the thermal control on the hard disk. Download this app and run it using the default settings. This will prevent your iMac from sounding like a jet engine and run the fan speeds to default. Source: over 2 years ago
  • What solid state hard drives are compatible with Macs?
    You may also find that the fans spin up loud and persistently if all you do is a straight swap. The app "SSD Fan Control" will sort this out for you. https://exirion.net/ssdfanctrl/. Source: about 3 years ago
  • Dell fan control?
    It's possible to switch between two fan modes with "SSD fan controll" in macOS. Not sure if it'll work with FakeSMC, I'm on VirtualSMC. But I can't turn off EC. The only thing it does is that it writes fan values faster than the EC. Source: over 3 years ago

GreenWithEnvy mentions (37)

  • Question about Nvidia options
    NVidia driver has a simple panel, but it's very limited in options. You can get more with https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gwe. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Really bad battery life on a Lenovo Yoga 7i
    On my system Lenovo Legion 5i i7-10750H with a RTX2060 on hybrid mode I got 15Wh. I'm starting to test with auto-cpufreq + LenovoLegionLinux + GreenWithEnvy (I hope it gets a new maintainer) setting the dGPU to 1W (which it never reaches, never less than 6w). Source: over 1 year ago
  • Nvidia on Linux state
    I'm happy with NVIDIA on Linux for the most part. I stick with X11 for the overclocking Green with envy and g-sync, plus DLSS 2 and ray tracing works in every game I've tried besides hitman, however DLSS 3 frame generation doesn't work and no idea when/if it will. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Nvidia settings shows wrong clock speeds
    I am not sure if it supports 1060, but search up GreenWithEnvy. It has maximum power draw control and displays the slowdown temperature among other things. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Help to Restore a Configuration
    I wanted to configure the nvidia graphics power with GreenWithEnvy but this requires activating Coolbits 8 in order to work, so I looked for how to activate and I found this. Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing SSD Fan Control and GreenWithEnvy, you can also consider the following products

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

CoreCtrl - CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles.

SpeedFan - Hardware monitor for Windows that can access digital temperature sensors located on several 2-wire SMBus Serial Bus. Can access voltages and fan speeds and control fan speeds. Includes technical articles and docs.

MSI Afterburner - Tool to manage video cards. Shows video card stats (temp, GPU usage, etc.).

xScan - xScan is an application for viewing the behavior of your computer and Mac.

NVIDIA Inspector - Nvidia Inspector is a small and handy tool that displays hardware information for Nvidia-based...