do new clevo laptops still have a silent mode button

My 3.5 year old 860tu is finally hitting the dust and i am looking to upgrade.

The #1 thing I love about this laptop is the silent mode button on the chassis which turns the fan off.

Is this something still on the newer clevo laptops (the p150 is it?).

 

Nope, that's not an option. They do have a "jet engine noise" button though (FN + 1 turns the fans to max speed). The GPU/CPU on the newer models run very hot and would not last very long without the fans running. Other than forced max fan speed, you cannot control the fans at all in current models.

 

Darn , I will need to rethink if a gaming laptop is really right for me.

I use my current laptop for about 50% work, 50% gaming (compared to 10% work/ 90% gaming in university ) and I need silent mode while working.

 

From what I've read, the Ivy Bridge/Chief River platform will have low power state or some kind of adjustable TDP and Optimus, will this enable Clevo to make a silent switch?

 

Even though the fans are running they're quiet as hell. it should be fine for work/uni

 

P150 is much more louder than M860TU in stand-by mode (browsing, office, movies, music). These fans can't work on minimum all the time, they just blowing like crazy each 5 minutes.

It's ruining to watch movies or play 2D games without headphones every time.
Sleeping with running NB (playing music) also became not possible, these coolers are real stress on P150. God I hate them so much.

 

what the hell? do you live in the desert?
my fans are barely audible during normal browsing the net and watching movies... I play mw3 with speakers all the time and never notice the fans. temps during browsing are constantly 40-45C

 

Same, GPU 39c, CPU 44-47c during browsing.
But coolers are not making constant speed.
They just working slow, then BAM... a middle speed, they somehow loud, working like this 45-60sec then again down, no difference in temps at all.
5 mins later BAM, again.

It's really stressing when it's dynamically pulling this <thing>.

While on M860TU, it's 55-62c (browsing) and working all the time on same cooler speed, so after 10 mins you are ok and not recognize the sound of coolers, because it's not reminding to the user about it's existence with louder sound each 5mins.

Plus it have double coolers. It's 2 of them now. Double noise.

 

ohhh. maybe your fans are dying or something haha. i never hear mine, the fluctuating speeds only occur when I have them on max.

 

Change the power plan to one that the CPU can throttle down, like minimum processor state 1%. I know you can do this very easily in Windows

 

The Silent Mode button is something I miss more than I expected to, but the fans only bother me if I Fn+1 without headphones.