New laptop, busy setting it up and I'm finding the fan noise very annoying and constant on mains. On battery it is intermitant.
In the BIOS I found a setting 'Fan always on' with the option of on/off. Setting it from its default on to off, it does seem a bit slower/quieter. Am I OK to do this?
Yes, it won't cause a problem.
If the CPU heats up then the fan will come on to cool it. It's possible - likely, if you're a heavy CPU user - that the fan won't be on all the time but runs much faster when it does come on.
There'll be a cutoff point where the PC will power off if the CPU gets too hot.
I use a monitoring tool HWINFO to see CPU core temps, fan speeds etc. It's at
I use Core Temp which is freeware. It's compact, gives the CPU temperature and clock frequency.
It is worth looking at Windows power settings where you can choose a setting for CPU speed according to demand.
Fredxx a écrit :
Got it :-)
This -
If its still put on if needed then probably, but the machine in the always off position may throttle back the processor to keep it cooler instead of course. Brian
My 2p's worth: I like
The default for Windows 10 is CPU min 5%. I'm surprised you've had to change it.
Did you notice he uses Core Temp too?
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