cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20144115

MSI laptop fan control

Hello,

Until this week I was using Windows for gaming. However since it won’t recognise any HDMI screen I switched to linux gaming.

So far, everything I heard was true. We can play on Linux !

There is, however, one small “issue” that I have. I have a MSI laptop (GF65 Thin 10UE) and until now I managed the fans with Dragon Center when gaming. With Linux I don’t seem to have that possibility, which leads to overheating issues.

Is there any tool suited to manage fans on MSI, since isw doesn’t seem to be compatible with my particular model…

  • Dreyns@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 months ago

    I had a similar issue with my asus, and some dude made a workaround, if you’re motivated you can always make your own heat / speed setup with fancontrol

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I like CoreCtrl. I don’t know how well it works with Intel and Nvidia, but it’s great on my AMD Thinkpad and desktop.

    Nice thing is it’s in most distros’ repos these days.

  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
    3·
    2 months ago

    When I installed Bazzite on my Asus laptop I got an Armory Crate application. There seems to be something similar for MSI laptops called MControlCenter, but don’t know anything about it. Hope this gets you going in the right direction.

        • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I see there is an m.2 slot too with what looks to be a Kingston SSD.

          I’m still confused what era this laptop is from. It might be a SATA m.2.

      • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Still a bit bizarre. I feel like with 2TB NVMe as cheap as it is, HDDs in anything remotely portable are insane.

        Now they make sense in RAID/NAS stuff, but I feel like ones the 3.5” ones.