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    ASUS UX430 fan noise

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by dandv, Oct 2, 2017.

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    Bought it. The fan is always on indeed, even under no apparent load. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.3. The BIOS was at the latest version.

    The noise isn't that annoying though. It's a constant white noise that I estimate at around 32dB based on this scale.
     
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    Thoughts one year later: while the noise is constant and not annoying, it's still unjustified IMO.

    At ~20% CPU usage, the fan is loud enough that it gets your attention.

    The fan spins up like crazy when the CPU usage goes above 30% (try loading Chrome with 30+ tabs), while my old DELL E7450 loads Chrome with 200 tabs without spinning up the fans (CPU at 100%).

    Thermal management on this laptop is junk. Not sure if it's Ubuntu's fault (I've never run Windows on it).
     
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