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Precision M6700 Fan

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by James Anderson, Feb 9, 2017.

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  1. James Anderson

    James Anderson Newbie

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    Hey guys first time posting, did some searching on my question and didn't find much for newish info on my question. Anyways, I have a precision M6700 and its running at about 63C just doing light work. Any work at all and it rockets up to 70C easily or higher, I'm wondering if there is something I can do to manually control my fan? Currently have tw 750 SDD running Win 7 and 10 if that makes a difference.
     
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    Aaron44126 Notebook Prophet

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    There isn't a whole lot that you can do for manual fan control on this system. The one thing is:

    Install the "Dell Feature Enhancement Pack" (from Dell's support site). This will add some additional power options.
    Then, in the Windows Power Options control panel under "Advanced power settings", you will see a new section called "Dell Enhanced Settings" which includes an option called "Thermal Mode". Here you can set it to something like "Quiet" or "Ultra Performance" to influence how the fan behaves.

    You don't need to worry about the CPU being in the 70-80C range, that is normal. The CPU will work fine up to near 100C. I've never been able to get mine higher than the high 80's (under heavy load), and in over 4.5 years, it's never had any sort of crash that I could attribute to high load or temperature levels.
     
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