Anybody's fans scream when gaming only in 4k?

So no matter what game I play, whether its maxing out all settings and letting unigine loop, or something older like diablo 3, if I play at 4k res, the fans will spin up very loudly after a few minutes. If I drop the res down to 1080p, then fans become an acceptable average level of noise.

Now you'd be thinking that 4k is pushing the system really hard and temps are off the charts. I used hwmonitor and let unigine loop for a while. Checked the peak cpu/gpu temps. Cpu peak temps are (in celcius) 69,76, 66, 67. Gpu temp peaked at 64. I know these are pretty good temps and it's not borderline overheating and therefore there's reallly no need for fans to be squealing just because I'm gaming at native res.

Anybody else suffer from loud fan noise like this? Or anybody have any ideas how I can change the fan curve or do something about this? I am not using premamod yet and am considering it if it can assist in this issue.

Edit: Copied from a later post:

Alright, so there is a manual fan control for us!

http://alienwareusersupport.weebly.com/unofficial-aw-fan-control.html

There's even an auto start option so you don't have to launch the program everytime. I can now game in 4k without the computer screaming at me to put it out of its misery.

 

My fans do tend to blow more when I'm playing 4K as well. I've just finished close to 4 hours of computer stuff and 4K gaming online (Monitoring via AWA)....here are my temps:

HWMonitor:

GPU - 60C (peak)

CPU - 73, 75, 70, 69 (peak)

I'm also OC'ed running 4.1GHz so that's why the temps are higher than "my" normal for this particular laptop. It's pretty amazing how cool these things can run even under major load.

Do you have performance fan mode enabled in BIOS?

 

Yea I'm running at 4.0ghz OC. For some reason any multiplier I set in bios higher than 40 isn't recognized, but that's good enough for me. No extra voltage added. I have performance fan off because with it on, it's blasting the fans when i'm idling on my desktop which is extremely unnecessary. It's just odd that the fan noise is not related to temps. I bet if I gamed in 4k inside a giant freezer the fans will still be blasting while temps are super cold. At least until the computer fries from condensation.

 

Haha...giant freezer....

Hmm...so you have your multiplier in BIOS set to all 40's? How about your Core Extra Turbo Voltage?

I have a feeling it's a BIOS related issue. Are you also using XTU? If so, have you double checked to make sure that none of the saved profiles are active?

Earlier today I've noticed that my CPU was way under-clocked and the culprit seem to be that XTU was conflicting with my Custom BIOS OC settings or something...it was strange. I had reverted back to default settings in XTU and redid the BIOS custom values and it worked again.

 

is their some sort of software you can dl that can limit the fan speed (I use SMCFanControl on OSX to limit my Macbook Pro fan speeds)?

 

All multiplier set to 40 (or higher but doesn't matter beyond 40) and extra voltage is set to 0. No blue screen, no crashes, so it seems pretty stable. I was using XTU after your exchange in your other thread but it seems that the BIOS was overriding XTU settings in terms of multipliers. If mutiplier in bios is set to 36, it would be locked to that even if I set it to 41 in XTU. So I just stuck with bios settings since I know it works.

But without any added voltage there shouldn't be any extra heat (which we've already figured out that heat isn't a direct correlation to the high fan noise) so it's really odd that fans would act that way.

@Scrapple Joe I would love to know if there's a smcfancontrol equivalent for windows. Heck, on macs, they have a fan control program for use in bootcamp. So unless there's better access to fans on macs (doubtful) I'm sure someone had to have made something similar for pcs.

 

Alright, so there is a manual fan control for us!

http://alienwareusersupport.weebly.com/unofficial-aw-fan-control.html

There's even an auto start option so you don't have to launch the program everytime. I can now game in 4k without the computer screaming at me to put it out of its misery.

 

Excellent find there! Kudos....thanks mate.

 

The program's autostart actually only autostarts the program. The custom fan settings don't actually start until you click the fan icon. Luckily there is a work around. At the bottom of the config file, add this OpenFanCtrlMin=1. That will now autostart your custom fan settings too.