Bad to have funs running (on slow) all the time?

Is it harmful in any way to just keep your fans (on my e1705) running on slow the whole time your computer is on, and assuming you're running on AC? The 7900gs idles at like 70-75, even higher sometimes, so it's nice to see it at 50 with the fans on, and also keepin the CPU cool. But I was just wondering if there was any reason not to.

 

My fans run on my Inspiron 8100 non-stop, slowly. I have not run into any problems. You could buy a Notebook chillmat if you are worried about heat...

 

i'm lookin into mats and pads, but just runnin fans on slow non-stop does quite the trick, so i wouldn't want to have to buy anything unneccesarily

 

I don't really think that there's a problem. The worst thing that would happen is that you will wear the fan out--but that's much easier to replace than a toasted gpu or mobo.

 

I run mine on high all the time, but even when I didn't use i8kfangui, the fans were constantly on so the bios is set to run them most of the time anyway. If it does burn out, say 20,000 hours down the road... I won't be using this laptop 20,000 hours from now

 

id rather have my fans keeping the laptop cool and worry about replacing them 4 years from now then have it run hot and make my legs and palms sweaty. i doubt its bad, like mentioned, it will just wear out the bearings faster, no biggie. i also run them on low all the time, but often put my laptop to sleep.

 

actually, if you take measures to eliminate dust build up in the fans, a few shots of compressed air in the vents once or twice a week, they will last a long long time, all the bad fans that I've had to replace for people were always caked in an inch or two of dust, and its a cheap, quick and easy thing to prevent

 

so you have to screw - open the laptop? isnt that warranty problem?esp if you have a 3years one?
and if you do not open wide your lappy, just blow the air in, presuming the fan problem solves, were does the dust go?

 

1. you can open the notebook if you want. sometimes i do, sometimes i don't.

2. it doesn't void your warranty

3. it blows out the various vents/gaps in the notebook. that's what happens when you force air into a chamber with multiple exits.