Should I Increase the GFX Card Fan Speed?

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Hello all, I recently built myself a new computer and I ran a test with PC Wizard 2010 and found that my GFX card fan was at 40%. I don't know quite well the anatomy of GFX card fans so I thought I would ask here. Should I increase it? If yes, then how do I increase it? I mean my temperatures are fine, but would there be a performance difference if I increase it? (If I can) Below is the readings that I got.




Hardware Monitoring : Fintek
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Hardware Monitoring : ACPI
Thermal Zone : 26 °C
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Processor Voltage :
Voltage : 0.99 V
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Processor Intel Core i7 : Sensor DTS
Core 1 : 40 °C
Core 2 : 36 °C
Core 3 : 42 °C
Core 4 : 37 °C
Energy Power : 78.36 W
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 : nVidia Driver
Temperature : 33 °C
Temperature (GPU) : 33 °C
Fan : 40%

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Hard Disk Monitoring : S.M.A.R.T
Hard Disk ST3250310AS : 39 °C




My Comp: EVGA E758-A1 3-Way SLI (x16/x16/x8) LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
Intel i7 930 2.8 GHz
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Windows 7 64-bit
 
Your fan speed only affects temperatures, unless your temperatures are getting very high(90-100C) and causing your system to heat throttle manually increasing the fan speed wont give you a performance boost and automatic fan profiles are usually decent.