Question What is "Target Temperature"?

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I'm working in a legacy BIOS from the good ol' days with "smart fan" enabled. When asking to pick a target temp for the CPU fan, what are they asking me to pick? The CPU temp I at which I want the fan to start speeding up? Go to max speed? Same question pertaining to the Sys fans /Cha fans.
 

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Some older systems used a different way to let you specify the "fan curve". But I've never seen one that asks for only ONE temperature. What you MAY see is a request for a Target Temperature that is the middle of the range, and then Minimum and Maximum temps for which it will apply min and max fan speeds.