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    Acer 5570 + T7400, Fan always on?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by goofball, Apr 25, 2008.

  1. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    Is it normal for the fan to always turn on even if the CPU is at around 40c idle (according to CoreTemp, RMC, NHC)? I don't know the ambient room temp but it's not very high (very cool actually). I will try to reapply compound again. I know it is a higher clocked CPU than my previous ones but the fan very rarely turns off now and it's somewhat annoying.

    Acer Aspire 5570
    T7400 C2D
    4GB RAM
    160GB Seagate 7200.2

    I haven't done the removal of the thermal pad for the chipset as I do not have another one but does anyone know if it is required? It seems like the chipset does not make direct contact with the heatsink so just using thermal compound may not be enough?
     
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    A'lot of laptops always have the fan running 100% of the time. Just not always running full speed. This is probably the case with your notebook.
     
    elijahRW, Apr 25, 2008
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    Anadhi Notebook Consultant

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    you might also want to try speedfan too, to control them. I couldn't comment about this software because of some reason my fan can't be detected.
     
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    Ahh yes speedfan. Un-fortunetly that won't work. I tried using speedfan on an aspire3000 laptop but it couldn't control the fan speed.

    Is the fan loud on your laptop?
     
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    Speedfan doesn't work but thanks for that suggestion.

    I'm pretty sure it was off many times before. Previous CPU's (T2450 and T5500) didn't have the fan on as much as it is on now (almost all the time).

    Load temps are around 65-70c after finding out the chip is stable at around 1.00-1.0125v. at full load. It's idle that bugs me, I'd like to lower the voltage under 0.95 which I"m sure it would be stable at but RMClock doesn't allow that unfortunately.
     
    goofball, Apr 25, 2008
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