Loud notebook fans: way to reduce noise?

delpieropadova · 1st April 2006, 11:57 AM

Some notebooks (mostly based on the AMD Turion CPU) has had reputation of just turning on the fan on full afterburner and stay there after it got put on load the first time.

To stave off standard or smart-ass answers such as:
Get a Pentium M/Core/Macbook Pro notebook

I'll say no.

What are other possible strategies or drawbacks of the approach below? Am asking this because my Turion notebook will arrive very soon.

- Replace the fan with a chipset or a VGA cooler. I think a VGA cooler might just fit. That is all well and good but those buggers still run fast and make just as much noise; how does one reduce their RPM? (keep in mind this is for a notebook not a desktop so no external switch/control-panel like solutions)

- Deal with it via software means. I believe that means there has to be an interface to the motherboard, and since notebook motherboards are proprietary that may not work. Unless there is a universal software/driver/whatever that I don't know about?

- Any others?

.LiQU!D. · 1st April 2006, 12:29 PM

I'm quite sure the notebook fans are special types, they blow are sideways instead of back to front, like the fans in the Arctic Silencers.

1st April 2006, 11:57 AM	#1
delpieropadova Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,297	Loud notebook fans: way to reduce noise? Some notebooks (mostly based on the AMD Turion CPU) has had reputation of just turning on the fan on full afterburner and stay there after it got put on load the first time. To stave off standard or smart-ass answers such as: Get a Pentium M/Core/Macbook Pro notebook I'll say no. What are other possible strategies or drawbacks of the approach below? Am asking this because my Turion notebook will arrive very soon. - Replace the fan with a chipset or a VGA cooler. I think a VGA cooler might just fit. That is all well and good but those buggers still run fast and make just as much noise; how does one reduce their RPM? (keep in mind this is for a notebook not a desktop so no external switch/control-panel like solutions) - Deal with it via software means. I believe that means there has to be an interface to the motherboard, and since notebook motherboards are proprietary that may not work. Unless there is a universal software/driver/whatever that I don't know about? - Any others? __________________ AsRock 939 Dual SATA2 mobo \|\| Opty 165 CCBWE 0546 @ 2.2 GHz 1.225v \|\| Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 64 \|\| Galaxy 8800GT 512 \|\| Antec NEO HE 430w Dell Inspiron 1520: 2.2GHz T7500, 2 Gb DDR2667, 160 Gb SATA 7200, nVidia 8600MGT

1st April 2006, 12:29 PM	#2
.LiQU!D. (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Perth Posts: 3,473	I'm quite sure the notebook fans are special types, they blow are sideways instead of back to front, like the fans in the Arctic Silencers.