Hello everyone.
Most of you (sadly) probably already know that Acer Predator (and others) systems tend to severely overheat, and the "best" thing is - cooling doesn't seem to really care. You could easily get 100 degrees Celsius on your CPU or GPU, while fans will barely rotate at 40% of their full speed, as if everything is fine.
Acer representatives again and again state that everything works as intended and SmartFan is perfectly capable of cooling your system effectively (and I don't judge you guys, you do what you got to do). That's why you can't really set fan policy in BIOS; it's locked and Acer doesn't want us tinkering with it. However, you might imagine that working at 100 degrees is not very healthy for your hardware, so many users tried many times to take control of cooling fans and set them to more reasonable speed.
Here comes the problem. Like I said, BIOS in these pre-built motherboards is very restrictive and is even protected against modding.
You can try setting your fans with software and this is actually possible for GPU fans (MSI Afterburner or others), but is close to impossible for CPU. Most software (like SpeedFan) can't take control of CPU fans, because motherboard, again, is not particular cooperative.
After insane search (including this forum) it seemed like there is no solution - people in all threads just give up and never show up to report they had any success controlling CPU fans.
So, BEHOLD - the first software I found that WORKED - Argus Monitor!
http://www.argotronic.com/en/
You just start it, go to Mainboard tab and set CPU fan to whatever you feel like (you can set it to fixed amount or set a rule/curve - relation of temperature to fan speed).
You can also set the same rule for GPU, but that is not rare - MSI Afterburner can do that.
Set the rules, make it apply rules on startup and there you go! Fresh warm healthy computer!
Disclaimer: it is not free, but it does have 30 days free trial, so check it out.
Disclaimer2: I am not associated with Argus Monitor in any way or form. I just feel obligated to share the solution with all the people who suffer from same problem as I.
p.s. other small thing: CPU TurboBoost is really-really aggressive, while doesn't provide fantastic performance increase, I suggest you turn it off, unless you desperately need it.
Below is the link to guide how to turn it off. Solutions 2.2 and 2.4 are super easy.
http://www.geeks3d.com/20170213/how-to-disable-intel-turbo-boost-technology-on-a-notebook/
