Best smcFanControl settings for me

Hey guys!
Could someone help out with the best smcFanControl settings to use on my 27" iMac i7 , now keep in mind i am from the uk! lol, the best outside temp i get is 28 degress on a good day! lol , oh and its coming into winter! i will post a link of what i am using at the moment.
WZZZ i had a look at your thread and the only difference i see is that the mazimum CPU speed smcFanControl will allow me is 2100 , i just want to keep it that extra bit cool . Any help would be great!
I am using
ODD - 1229
HDD - 1340
CPU - 1109
my temps surfing the net for say 30 min are
HD 34
CPU 28
Ambient 12
GPU diode 40
GPU heatsink 37
MEM Controller 33
optical drive 30
Power Supply 41

I agree with Lex. With those temps, which are quite low, you can probably stay at the defaults. At least experiment using the defaults to see if the temps remain in that low range. No need to go above the defaults if things remain that cool. I hardly ever run higher than my "minimum" setting. This increases the drive fan, for example, by 292 rpms above the defaults. Occasionally, if it's really hot here, I might go up to the "hot" setting, which is about 400 rpms above the default for the drive. During the winter, I'm usually at the defaults or, possibly, at my "minimum minus" setting, which is 227 rpms above the defaults, for the drive.
I constantly monitor the HD and CPU temps from iStat Menus, which displays them directly in the Menubar.
My settings are based, starting with the defaults, on raising all three fan rpms incrementally by approx 15-20%. These are based on the defaults of my 21.5, which has faster defaults than the 27, I believe. The 27, with bigger fan blades, idles the fans a bit lower to get the same air flow. I don't know what the exact idling rpms are for the 27, but your first setting should be about 15-20% above whatever those are, for each of the three fans. Next setting is approx 15-20% of the previous setting and so on.
You will find it's impossible to set the sliders for an exact figure.
My "hottest" setting is at approx 2K, but I never need to use it or the "hotter" setting. If it gets that hot, as it did during a searing heat wave we had a few weeks ago -- it was 110F outside and in the low 90s inside -- I just sleep the computer. No amount of blowing air around is going to help much when it's like that.
When I feel the back of the computer getting kind of warm -- and I often run without it during the winter -- I turn on the fan behind. It is a small clip-on fan mounted to the wall on a bracket to avoid vibration, with the blades only about 6" away from the back. It is aimed upwards, mainly at the upper left corner, as you face the screen, where it gets the hottest. The aiming upwards is to minimize the air flow under the computer, so as to reduce dust collecting at the bottom air intake. If it were not aimed upwards, most of the air flow would be striking around the middle of the back.

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