How loud is your notebooks cooling system?

I wanted to extend on this a little and create a poll.

What is "loud" to you?

I understand a notebooks fan never really "shuts off" but I am talking about when the fan becomes audible in a quiet room.

 

Loud is subjective. What I may think is not loud maybe be unbearable for another user. Now if you had a decibel poll that's another thing..

My fan in my Vostro 1500 only spins when heavy gaming. Otherwise silent.

My Latitude 13 is absolutely silent and only slight sounds during watching an HD movie or playing games.

 

Your options are confusing. Should have a 'never' option because my fans don't cycle during a constant usage scenario.

Also, if the room is really quiet, then all fans are audible - some just less annoying than others.

Loud to me is when the sound is distracting me from the work I want to do with the notebook - or, around 35 - 40 Db in absolute terms in a quiet room (depending on the 'signature' of the sound in question).

 

As has been somewhat alluded to... if the title is "How loud is your notebooks cooling system?" shouldn't the options be "very loud", "loud", "moderate", "quiet", and "very quiet"... or something like that?

 

Mine sounds like a blow dryer. Without help from 3rd party utilities the fan is on almost constantly. The settings are just too aggressive, and I was wrong with my initial estimate that the fan had calmed down after updating to the latest BIOS.
Fanless FTW!

 

I'm actually not too sure when my fans do run. I can't really feel hot air coming out of my Thinkpad T500's heat vents at all, so I assume it's not running. When the fan does run, it's pretty much inaudible unless under heavy load, when I can barely hear it.

Under ambient temperatures of around 20 C, my Thinkpad idles at around 28-30 C (and I haven't cleaned the vents since receiving my laptop nearly 2 years ago).

 

Its not to loud unless im gaming,then she really spins up.But just surfing net,small stuff it runs real low hardly notice it.Though most time im listening to music also.

 

i'm out of the chart even on idle my fans are alway runing but you can't hear them unles the room is perfectly silent

when i'm gaming how ever it feels like a f-22 taking off

 

To me, all notebooks run loud...my Toshiba runs at a sort of medium level of noise at idle, but when some load gets put on, it gets real loud.

The Asus is about the same as the Toshiba at idle, maybe just a tad higher, but it doesn't hit the same level of noise at load.

Keep in mind that this is all being done in a completely silent room. My guess is if they were both in a noisy room running at full load, I wouldn't be able to hear them.

However, my friend has a dv5-3 series notebook (latest redesign), and I can hear it from about 30 feet away in a relatively noisy room.

 

I can't really hear mine unless I'm in a completely silent room.

I've got an SSD which means (sans fans and electronic sounds you need to put your ear to the case to hear) my laptop runs completely silent as well. When the fan starts, it can be quite annoying in that case; but otherwise if the room is not completely silent, the fan is hard to notice unless I put my hand on the vent.

Generally I don't hear the fan at all unless it kicks into high gear mode; but that all said, this laptop idles quite high compared to some others. I've never seen CPU temp lower than 38C, nor GPU lower than 58C.

 

G73 here.. Mine only spins up in games and even then is almost still silent with speakers and everything... once in a few months , maybe it goes nuts in gaming and spins up very loud!

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