studio 17 fan noise

KEITH25 · 10-05-2008, 02:50 AM

looking at buying studio 17 have not viewed or used this notebook only read reviews. is this a quite notebook, i have sensitive hearing and hate having a fan switch on and off every couple of minutes bought an acer and sent it back. have an old sony pcg-grs614mp and this is nice and quite.
can anyone advise who has one on the noise issue and is there a way of controlling the fan settings in bios and how do you do it.
looking at T8100 processor and will not be using it for gaming. cad work and watching movies

Stezzus · 10-05-2008, 05:53 AM

My fan is never audible and I overclock the video card by about 100 MHz when gaming. I am surprised as hell, but the temps stay nice and cool. I could not get speed fan to control my fans as Intel boards are not supported for some reason. Maybe it is possible, but it has not worked for me.

Tinderbox (UK) · 10-05-2008, 05:58 AM

Hi.

why dont you get a system with a p8400 processor it`s 2.2ghz and only uses 25watts opposed to the T8100 35watts, it will be a bit more expensive but you will get longer battery life.

Regards

John.

atbnet · 10-05-2008, 09:34 AM

I8kfanGUI is a way of controlling the fan speed. You can also try undervolting or a notebook cooler.

ach3al · 10-05-2008, 04:08 PM

Hi, my fan is running all the time and it is annoying. The temperature ia always below 40 degree most the time it is even below 30 degree but the fan is running. I tryed all programms I could find, none of them could control the fan in a statisfying way (either on or off, or mouse not working anymore..). Dell offered to excange the laptop, it should be here next week.