M17 Loud Fans

So I have finally got my hands on Mike's M17... However, the fans are incredibly loud! Is there anything which can be done in this department? e.g. change the thresholds at which they spin up to something higher, but without it risking damaging the comp?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

The fans are loud, its needed...the cpu and both ati cards get incredibly hot.

Try reapplying thermal paste...i put OCZ Freeze on my cpu and both my gpu's and temps dropped 10 degrees (50 farenheit).

This means they spin less loud.

Also a notebookcooler might help, does f*ck all for me though .

Good luck

edit; ofcourse i asumed you mean they spin loud when doing something intensive, not in idle mode.

 

Ya, I've got a notebook cooler too. Does bugger all really. Surely, some one must have come up with a system to reduce the noise of this system though?

 

fans spin. that creates noise. you can't change that. i suppose you could stuff the case with sound-proofing material, but that'd lead to thermal issues i think.

 

I use headphones, and I have the AC right above me so I never hear the fans.

 

my machine is very loud as well, not alot you can do about it, you could down clock everything if you wanted to reduce the temps but obviously reducing perfomance

 

While gaming or idle ?

Idle i can barely hear it. While games you can hear the fans but the game sounds/music drowns the fan noise.

 

please don't metion who you bought it from. just say it's used. but yes at full blast, the fans is really really loud.

 

Idle, I can't hear mine. When playing games, they will be loud, there's nothing that can be done about that unless you want to play on low power mode. Switch to power saver if you want them to run quiet.

 

Which will make the game performance useless to add

 

W*T*F ???

 

I am running Windows 7. The fan noise is rather loud even when just browsing the net. Fans seem to power up more the moment there is a spike in CPU load.

 

Whats your idle temps ? Seems like fan speed for the cpu (since the sound is probably coming from there when you are just browsing the internet etc) is regulated by the ACPI temp.

 

cpu load= heat

 

Nah its not that. CPU temps go up for 2-3 degrees, ACPI degrees go up for like 15 when watching videos etc (no idea still why the ACPI changes temps like that) which causes the fans to spin.

 

the northbride runs hot for some reason. we thought it was the heatsink was causing the problem because in project freeze. hellcry cut the heat sink and used a ram sink on the NB to see if it will remain cool but the NB shot up almost to 80 in 3 seconds.

if you want to find out more about cooling your m17. check out project freeze.

 

Thought I'd just report back with what I ended up doing...

It just so happens that the fan which was running incredibly hard was the CPU fan (trying to cool the X9100). I managed an agreeable solution to this.

I created a new power setting which opts to decrease CPU performance before increasing fan speed, as well as throttling the max CPU speed down to 50%. For good measure, I also changed the power settings in the catalyst control centre for better battery life for this power setting.

This new power setting seems to work well and computer runs mostly quiet when being used to browse, word process, write emails, etc... and when I want to game, I stick it back to the high performance setting and the fans kick off, but at this point the headphones go in and the music is turned up, so it is not really a bother any more.

So that's one problem down.