should i accept it as fact that all laptops having cooling issues?

I've had this Studio 1555 and the Acer Aspire 6530. This Studio's fan/cooling is somehow horribly designed, and the fan keeps turning on and off every 5 minutes (5 mins to cool, then 5 mins to warm up again). The Acer wasn't any better, the fan was on all the time. Is it just these prebuilt laptops that have horrible cooling/fan designs? Will I get a quieter laptop going with something from ASUS or MSI?

Or do i have this all wrong, and that all laptops will always activate the fan, even after a 10-20 minutes of regular web browsing and for me to expect the fan to stay OFF during web browsing is just a wish?



edit; i've done the undervolting, lowered temps of the CPU but for my Studio, its the GPU that's the culprit,

 

All laptops will eventually have cooling issues.
You put faster processors + more powerful GPU's then you get more heat.
All that heat needs to be removed from the case and within a few months the vents and fans will get clogged with dust. You may even have to open up the laptop to remove the dust clogged in there.

 

MSI is whisper quiet. I could tell my wife that it doesn't have a fan and she'd probably believe me.

Dell, Acer, Gateway, and HP don't do cooling particularly well. Sagers can get loud, but behave well when not being stressed... they get noisy because they cool very well. Check out reviews done by www.notebookcheck.net. They usually give a decibel level for idle, DVD, and full load.

 

Depends on the laptop more then anything and how well designed it is, also what time of year lol. My HDX T9300 sits at 29c when idle and maxses out at 45c under full load, the highest i have ever seen the GFX hit is 83c, bearing in mind its nearly a year and a half since it was cleaned so i know the heatsinks are blocked up, as the GFX card used to hit 69c tops. It used to be completely silent when doing anything but gaming, but now and again i hear the fan kick in when watching a video on full screen but thats about it.

 

SIMPLY TOO FUNNY!! This guy thinks that becuase the fan turns on the laptop is having cooling issues. lolz!

 

Saying that "ALL" (That means including everyone's machines in the whole of NBR) laptops have cooling issues is just an overstatement. But a laptop's cooling efficiencies get decreased as time goes, depending the hardware's longevity and depends on how you maintain it; as in regular maintanence of dusting out from heatsinks and fans, reapplying thermal paste, etc. is important.

It's over a year long and both of my machines in my sig below never hit 75*C or higher for all components including both CPU and GPU FYI. Maintenance is done every 2 months.

It also depends on the cooling efficiencies of the laptop. And how cool it was and is, designed to run? That will highly depend on the engineer's creative juices, and what goes on within the heatsink.

So to answer your question, it's completely normal for fans in your notebook to run when they hit at a certain temperature. The 3 fans in my M1730 is on all the time, since I OC'ed it to 3.4GHz. And believe me, it's loud.

What kind of temperatures are you getting BTW? Open HWMonitor and give a screenshot of the temps. Have you ever opened your laptop as well?

 

You should buy a fanless netbook or something like panasonic toughbook instead. That way, there's no fans thus "no cooling issue".

All laptops with fans will spin up its fans at some point. This is not considered "cooling issue" as more as "normal operation".

 

In my experience Thinkpads are very quiet notebooks, I've not used the new P series processor which I expect would yield a much more cool CPU temperature, you can control at which temperature the fan is triggered + undervolting the CPU + getting a integrated GPU if you really want/need a quiet laptop. HDD also make noise but generally the system fan in all laptops is ON most of the time especially in the summer no matter if you change the paste (Of course this don't apply if you have A/C).

 

my vaio is very quiet as the processor stays around 30 degrees with light use, only when i play games does the GPU heat up thus heating up the whole system and the fans come on.

 

You might be able to adjust the fans so they behave differently, but as others have said, all laptops' fans come on at some point. If your fans go from off to full blast in cycle every 5 minutes, that sounds like a problem, but if they only spin up to low RPM for 5 mins every 5 mins, I'd actually say your lappy is doing a pretty damn good job of keeping cool.

 

Thinkpads are known as well as Sagers for good cooling systems.

HP's old product line (dv2000,dv6000,dv9000) run very cool as well. As you see i have one in my signature.

...But say, when you come down to gaming, every laptop will get hot.

 

Do NOT accept it as fact that all laptops have cooling issues for two reasons:

1. Not all laptops have cooling issues.
The acer timeline using laminar cooling is a good example. The components run cool and the cooling system keeps the laptop from being hot to the touch.


2. Accepting it (as a group) lets manufactures off of the innovation hook.
If consumers ask for it, they'll make it. Don't resign yourself to walking around with a battery operated hotplate. Intel's ULV processors are a response to demand for less heat and less energy. Keep demanding it and they'll keep improving.

 

ULV is probably more a response to the unexpected success of netbooks than anything else. Most mfgrs did not expect netbooks to be popular at all, let alone as popular as they have proben. In any case, high performance parts will probably always have at least some heat issues. It's the nature of the beast.