The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Sony Laptops' 'Silent Mode'?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by AJTx0, Jan 2, 2010.

  1. AJTx0

    AJTx0 Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    100
    Messages:
    97
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hi everybody, I recently purchased a Sony SR590, and while I love it, I'm personally VERY susceptible to fan noise.. thus I find problems with being able to hear the fan run constantly. The fan seems to turn on, as soon as I open skype and windows media player...

    I recently discovered Sony's 'silent mode' function.. and it seems to cut the fan noise level down. What's the difference between performance mode and silent mode? Do you suppose it's alright for me to keep on silent mode, for my state of sanity (literally)? From time to time, I run Lightroom CS2, which seems to be my most CPU intensive program... otherwise I usually just have a few internet tabs open, windows media player, and a few chat windows.
     
    AJTx0, Jan 2, 2010
    #1
  2. zimbros12

    zimbros12 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    276
    Messages:
    1,059
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    56
    i keep my TZ on silent mode all the time
    so far haven't seen any major issues,
     
    zimbros12, Jan 2, 2010
    #2
  3. fatjoez

    fatjoez Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    80
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    16
    From what I can tell...
    Silent mode just tells the system not to run the fan too much.
    I dont think it actually limits the CPU speed..

    So essentially the result if I'm correct with that is,
    your laptop will get a little hotter, but you won't hear as much noise from the fan cause it'll be kept to minimum.

    The cpu can probably handle a decent temperature level so I guess as zimbros said you probably won't see any problems..

    but yea thats my take
     
    fatjoez, Jan 3, 2010
    #3