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    zx5000 fan--always on?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by frapa, Sep 11, 2004.

  1. frapa

    frapa Notebook Enthusiast

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    Can someone please answer this one? I really like the specs on the zx5000 series, but in all my area stores, it's way too noisy to tell the fan situation on this model. What's the deal with the zx5000 series fan/cooling? Is the fan _always_ on? Does a single fan simply come on frequently? Or are there two fans: one always on, and one "persuader" fan for when the temp gets extra high?

    I'm trying to compare this to the zt3000 series, which, I get the impression from reading, stays fanless a lot...the single fan only comes on once in awhile (like the third situation above).

    Can someone please help me out with this? I'm trying to make a purchase decision, and fan operation is an aesthetic point for me. Thanks.


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    frapa, Sep 11, 2004
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  2. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    I believe for HP P4 and AMD CPU systems, they all have 2 fans. I've heard that one will always run (slowly) while the other mainly kicks in when it hits a specific temp. It'll probably be quite often because it's a P4 & they're known to run hot.

    Pentium M notebooks will also run quite often if you push the CPU by playing a game or encoding video, but still less than a P4.

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    Venombite, Sep 12, 2004
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    DaGreek Notebook Evangelist

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    The fan is on all the time but its running very slow most of the time. Mine 1 fan usally never needs to speed up unless I'm playing doom 3 or unreal 2004 then the fan speeds up and after a few minutes the second fan comes on at a medium speed. For normal windows work the fan is not noticable and no problem. If you are encoding or playing games it comes on but its really not loud. the vents are plenty large so there's less air rushing noise.

    Compaq R3000T (CTO)
    P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
    1 X 512MB RAM
    Radeon 9600 128MB
    60GB 5,400 RPM HD
    AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115
     
    DaGreek, Sep 12, 2004
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