d830 fan noise

Hallo all,

I have bought d830 couple days ago. I think it is very good machine, but I have an issue with fan noise. The noise caused by fan is not very high but what I really dont like is that it is running ALL THE TIME! I am working in very queit environment and it is annoying.

Do you know how to cool d830 passively until some temperature is reached?

Anyway I have installed I8kfangui program but it can't display any data except CPU temp and system load. I don't see any other temperatures, fan speed, nothing. When I try to change to control fan manually nothing happens. It reacts when setting to HIGH but it keeps running when set to OFF.

Could you please give me your setting and some explanation how it works.

Thanks a lot.
Martin

 

if you put it on a fanless laptop stand, it should keep it cool enough to not run the fan.

btw, would you rather your fan ran less and your computer died sooner?

 

I8kfangui seems not compatible with ICH8 chipset.

 

Hi, thanks for reply. What do you mean by "fanless laptop stand"? Is it an option somewhere?

Thanks