Glad you're using it.
I'll do some research about the hardware and raise the upper limit a little bit.
Would you find it useful? Do you think 70°C is a bit too low?
Thanks, it's a simple quality program.
I know in other threads you said you didn't let the upper limit be set too high because that could be dangerous (i.e. letting people set it to 200C) since the fans wouldn't kick up quick enough and the temp could creep up.
But I do think 70C for the upper limit is a bit low. If you want to play it safe I'd say make it 80 to 90C, for those that work their Macs hard my fans are full blast on full load when trying to get to the 70C mark...they never reach it on full load and manage to reach 84-85 under full load full blast fans. Playing it totally safe maybe even just a bump to 80C. I'm fine with mine hitting the low 90s once in a while during high loads and a higher upper limit might give the fans a small break.
I think 40C should be 50C only because again under even moderate load the program will force the fans into high speed to get say a 70C computer down to 40C and idling my computer sits around 65-70C anyways with your program. For heavy users.
It depends, maybe different setting recommendations for different users. For those regularly pushing their Macs to high temps and high usage, allow a higher upper limit target. Without your controller for example my laptop would easily hit 104C on the cores with full cpu loads, with it it stabilizes 6100RPM at between 84-88C. For light users maybe a lower upper limit and slightly lower lower limit.
As long as your fine program doesn't override Apple defaults (i.e. the fans will still rev up per Apple specs when the temps start hitting mid 80s) I think it would work well for heavy users and give the fans a slight break at times.
Overall this program has kept my CPU cores between 84-89C with 6100RPM fans under heavy load for hours and hours. I do stop my heavy load from time to time to give them a break and with your program I can keep it idling at under 68C which is nice for the fans and the CPU. In the end I'd rather burn out the fans and have the computer shut down do to that then have the CPUs running at over 100C temps for long lengths of time.
Long winded post aside I think yes a slightly higher upper limit would be helpful. But you're the programmer so I'll trust your judgement on that one.