Noisy laptops - what would you prefer?

Seems like people are mixed about heat vs noise on their notebooks, so I setup a little poll: If you only had 2 options, what would you prefer:

More heat = less noise
or
Less heat = more noise

Personally, I would prefer less noise with more heat anytime

Please vote - thanks.

 

actually more heat = high fan = more noise ..

I prefer less heat.. so the fan goes slow and less noise ..
umm.. no option for that? LOL

 

I would prefer less heat at the expense of noise.
I sold my sxps 16 as whilst gaming it was uncomfortable to touch and the touch pad was scorching just at idle

 

I've never had a problem with laptop heat and would very much prefer less noise at the expense of more heat. Or at least, I'd like to have the option to choose between the two. Probably thanks to the last-gen Nvidia fiasco, Dell E6400 has a fairly aggressive fan thermal table, and sometimes it just drives me crazy.

 

i'd like to be able to adjust it

 

I like a netbook for the reason. No fan noise (fan turned off) = quite a bit of heat

 

Yeah, I know, my netbook ASUS 1002HA is almost totally silent with no heat of significance, but I'll bet this is not common, and no doubt part of the reason it's possible, is the low powered Atom processor.

 

For me, i would take less heat, more noise....

When my fan is on max, 4370RPM, i can not hear it..

 

dude, seriously? you need to check your hearing

 

well, i do have a A/C in the window with just the fan on 24/7.(No A/C use, Its TOO COLD OUT at 8F) I like to keep fresh air this room. I also have a psp on 24/7 with the internet radio playing. (977MSUIC.com)

 

Hot laptop >> Thermal shutdown
Noisy Laptop >> irritated owner
Which take priority?

 

Less heat and more noise.

 

if it is more heat but well within the thermal envelope, i.e. 50° instead of 40°C but with less fan noise, then so be it.

 

Alright merv.. I'm going for less heat and more fan noise. I value my purchase!

 

I love cooling, the more the better. My laptop cooler boasts insanely high airflow yet it is relatively quiet. My hearing isnt the best because I work alot with engines. I am sure my hearing will get worse when I get my Detroit running.

K-TRON

 

[ ] OP understands what the equals sign means

 

I would rather have less heat and more noise. I can't stand having a lappy on my bare legs and it getting really warm. I wouldn't mind some noise, I'm used to the vacuum.

Besides, the hardware would last longer if it ran cooler, and might even overclock more!

 

Less heat for me.
Excessive heat = bad for components.
More noise is just slightly irritating.

 

Without specifying what the OP means about "more" or "less" noise/heat, these answers aren't really meaningful. I mean if the laptop is burning your pants and the computer won't run due to heat, then of course it would be better to take a noisier laptop. But if it's hot but under the thermal envelope, how loud are we talking, jet engine loud?

 

you're too exaggerating

 

More noise for me, if it worked that way. As a gamer, the lowest temperatures possible are pretty much always the best. Plus, when I'm gaming the sound from my speakers drown out the fans anyway.

 

my devices are all except for my laptop 100% silent. so i guess, more heat is it, for me, then.


but one thing i've noticed.

once you get rid of all the pc noises around you, you start to realize how silent and lonely your pc room is

happily, i'm mostly listening or producing or playing with music, so i know how to fix that with my own noise

 

What about your desktop?

 

silent, soon passive cooled, in the drawer of the table. currently waiting for a replacement, though.

if you checked my pics, you've seen my old black desktop case below the white table. the new one is in the drawer of that table (updated pics will follow once all is working again as planned).

it's an i5 660 with 4gb ram, intel ssd 80gb gen2. cost around 500$ +-.



and it's so quiet in the room, i noticed that my 24" screen actually has a fan! crazy thing, that!

 

During normal operations I want no heat and little fan noise.

However, if my laptop is running under load - e.g. Photoshop panoramas, HDR etc. I don't mind fan noise and a bit of heat.

 

it's fun how many spin the original topic around.


for a certain amount of work a laptop (or desktop or what ever) has to do, it produces heat, no matter what.

the question is now about preferring to get the heat just as is, heat, or getting it blown away with a fan, as noise. it's not a question if you like the heat to get produced in the first place, but what to do with it. want it as heat or as noise?

 

Low heat, low noise, like my Sony CW

 

less heat, thats more important. i can deal with the noise.

 

Doesn't seem to help you does it?

 

Less noise for me. A full-blast notebook fan is loud enough that it can distract other people around you, as well as yourself, from focusing, and it doesn't blend in very well as background noise (on medium, they tend to be a lot more reasonable). CPU whine is worse yet, as the high-pitched noise from that gets old very quick. But even just considering fan noise, I'd take less noise.

The heat isn't ideal, but I almost always can work at a desk, and when I can't, I'm rarely using my laptop for that long anyway (usually to look up a specific thing). And it isn't ideal for the components, either, but other than my GPU, I'm not too concerned about even what usually is considered "hot" temperatures, and my GPU won't hit 70+ Celsius unless I'm actually using the GPU, at which point a little bit of fan noise is acceptable - then I'll have noise from whatever game or movie I'm playing, and it'll blend in better.

Right now my laptop's idling at 100% CPU (World Community Grid), and 68 Celsius, with moderate fan speed. I feel that's a fairly good balance. I can minimize the fan speed at the expense of temperature, or vice versa, but a few degrees less for considerably more noise isn't worth it, and similarly the noise isn't enough of a problem with these fan settings for me to care to make it quieter, even though the surrounding area I'm in is pretty quiet.

 

Not a trsadeoff if you have the T400!!! super quiet and super cool!!!