Revised: How loud are your notebooks fans?

Hi Guys

I recently made a thread regarding fan cycles and many users on there said the poll wasn't really logical, I will do as they recommend and approach this differently.

I recently bought a brand new Sony Vaio E (see signature for exact model)
It runs nice and cool but in order for this laptop to work at such a low temperature I had to sacrifice silence in a quiet room, it sounds comparable to a mini jet engine taking off when it revs up (every 20-30 seconds)

I've concluded there is no hardware fault here because the fans only kick on when the temperature exceeds 50 Celsius, Sony also concurred that this is normal.

So please, take part in this poll and let us see "the norm" of laptop fan noise, there are multiple choices for you to pick from:
Very Loud, can be heard over ambient sound and even across the room
Moderately Loud, can be heard even when headphones are on when watching a movie
Moderate: tolerable but definitely noticeable in a quiet room
Pretty Quiet: Only hear them when CPU is under heavy load.
Quiet: sound as a whisper.

 

I have a NP8690: -Moderately Loud, can be heard even when headphones are on when watching a movie

 

Ya mine runs pretty quiet,fans barely run then kick up once in awhile.I was listening to some you tube music clips and could not hear the fans....But under a heavy load the fan does kick up pretty good.

 

with headphones ON? you call that moderately loud? what on earth do you call very loud?

 

I suppose I should have said can be vaguely be heard when earphones are in but playing only mild sounds on low but I didn't want to make this any more complex then it needed to be

 

Moderate, got me almost wishing I had kept my 3810T (with an SU9400) until Haswell. Intel messed up with ulv Arrandale, or maybe Acer did with the cooling. Compared to my 3810T this 1830T is annoying. My roomate has a Toshiba with a Core 2 Duo and his fan only every now and then spins up and I hear it. Meanwhile my 1830T is never silent. And this is with an Intel ssd.

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Like I said in the other thread, my Toshiba is probably moderate. You can hear it pretty decently in a silent room, if you only a couple of metres away from it or closer. In a noisy sort of room, I can't hear it all, even when under load, only if I put my ear up to the body of the computer.

The Asus is about the same level of volume at idle, which is pretty good considering it's specs, and the fact that it has two fans, not one like the Toshiba. But it doesn't get quite as loud as the Toshiba when it's being stress tested.

My friend has a dv5t-3 series laptop from HP (latest redesign), and it definitely comes under the Very Loud category. I can hear it from 30 feet away, in a fairly noisy room, even when it's idle. If a Sager is any louder than that dv5t, I would probably never get one. Extremely noisy notebooks are a bit of a put off for me.

 

My Macbook's fans are very quite, unless I fire up CoD: BO