The umpteenth Boot Camp fan driver topic.

Hello all,
This is a Boot Camp question, but as it specifically relates to the Mac Pro, so I'm posting it here.
I recently upgraded from 10.4.11 to 10.5.6, and from Boot Camp Beta to Boot Camp 2.0. I had previously used Boot Camp Beta, primarily and rather extensively for gaming, in XP, until it became obvious that my X1900XT was experiencing real problems. After some research, I realized that these problems likely stemmed from the fact that the MP's actual fans weren't doing anything while in XP, and the only thing preventing a total meltdown inside the case was the 1900's own onboard fan, which worked at full capacity nearly all the time, but still didn't manage to prevent the card's slow, untimely demise.
Nothing so far that hasn't been reported by dozens of other users...
I've since purchased a reflashed 8800GTS (G92) from Bruinmacs on eBay, and I'm hoping to get back into PC gaming... Now, it had been my understanding at the time (pre-Leopard) that the full version of Boot Camp was meant to include XP drivers for the MP's fans, but I have been unable to track down any relevant information as to whether or not that promise ever became a reality. I've found multiple topics by people with Macbooks where it is clear that fan control in Windows is still a distant fantasy, but I've seen nothing from any Mac Pro users either way, and have found no official word either.
I have SMC Fan Control, and I know how to use it, but it seems like a wrecking-ball-for-a-nail type solution. I certainly don't want to fry another GPU, though. So, my question is obvious...
Thanks for the help.

Well, I certainly don't have a good picture of what it should do, which is why I asked about how it works. I did Google for info, and I also did see the developer's site before I posted back, however. Frankly, I found the official site and every other source of info I landed on to be less than explicit about specifically the things I was enquiring on. All it says is "fan control" here and there, which doesn't necessarily mean variable fan control using hardware temperature monitors as a reference for fan speed. Besides, most of the info on the site is dedicated to Macbooks - including the remapping functions, so there's precious little for a Mac Pro owner to go by.
Also, as I'd written in my first post, I am familiar with SMC Fan Control and how it works. I was just specifying that, as far as I can tell, Input Remapper seems to do more or less the same thing, except that it does it directly from the Windows side of things. If that's the case, I'll just stick with SMC.
If there's a pertinent bit of info on that page or anywhere else that I've missed, I would certainly like to be more specifically directed to it. Otherwise, I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet and install IR so I can figure it out for myself. That usually seems to be the best method regardless.

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