M17x R2 Fan Throttling up all the time on idle

Hi,

I bought an M17x R2 about 1 and a half year ago, and lately it began making louder and louder noises with the fan, I use my laptop in class and its almost too loud to be used without bothering everyone,

Basically, even when I'm just idling, the fan throttles up to max power and back down repetitively, it just began recently so i'm not sure what might be wrong, any clue?

 

What are your temps? Have you cleaned out the dust in the heatsinks/vents?

 

I can only get my GPU temps with GPU-Z, but it seems its the system fan that is faulty, my GPU (Crossfire 5870s) temps are 60-65 and they are both running at 300mhz core clock or lower, when i'm just browsing internet or whater.. not playing games, do you have a program i could use to monitor my system temps other than GPU-z?

 

your temp is a bit high. after a repaste and disabling hardware accelleration on my browser, my gpu temps goes no higher than 45* unless I'm playing video.

 

you have to clean the radiators and maybe repaste the gpu.

 

Well i'm a total noob with stuff like that, and it does sound complicated, everything in my laptop is entirely stock, the only thing i've ever done is open it to clean the system fan, which didn't solve the noise problem.. i figure i'll get a new system fan while it's still under warranty and i'll get into repasting later on maybe.

Is it normal that the stock paste is like that or could it be faulty/lower quality?

 

Its not your fan. Its duty. Just use compressed air. Repasting will help for sure. Save money and don't get the fan. If its spinning and not making unusual noise i.e. Metallic bringing, your fan is fine.