Razer Blade 2015 Fan Noise (vs MSI GS60)

Hello all,

I know there's been a few threads sorta dancing around this topic, but I want one to be fully about it. I haven't had a chance to play with a Razer Blade (neither FHD or QHD+). My main concern is the fan noise. I've heard conflicting reviews. A lot of people in this forum say that the Razer Blade is less noisy than the GS60, yet Notebookcheck marks the Blade to hit a max of 59db vs GS60's 52db. What's even more interesting is that most complaints I've seen for the GS60 have been that, but this has not been the case with the Blade, despite being louder. Could someone shed some light on this? Also, is there any difference in fan noise/heat on the 1080p model vs the QHD+? I figure the former would be less taxing on the card, but can't imagine too much of a difference

Thanks!

 

I play all my games at 1600x900, I can tell you that it does get LOUD when being heavily taxed. I wouldn't imagine the 2014 and 2015 are going to differ much in this respect since the 2015 has a higher TDP CPU but the 2014 has a higher TDP GPU. They're only about 10W apart if that.

Some things I do when I feel like trying to clamp down the potential for fan ramp-up are:

1. Cap the framerate to 40FPS, GPU works less. Unless of course the game is severely taxing on it and can't maintain 40 anyway.
2. Set the performance cap on the CPU to 99% so it doesn't turbo.

I played witcher 3 for about 5 minutes yesterday on this setting and I couldn't even hear the fan yet. I think the 1.05 patch definitely helped here as they probably fixed some inefficiencies.

I've found games still play great with these in place, but if my wife isn't around I removed the "governor" just let it loose. I always wear headphones I never hear it, it's only her it bothers.

I guess I'm not answering your query, and I can't really. I suppose you can trust the notebookcheck guys on that, though it's just a 1 vs 1 sample it should be as accurate as anyone is going to get.

 

I own a 2015 Razer Blade FHD and I can confirm that the fans are LOUD. They sound like a hairdryer. BUT I never notice when I'm wearing my headset, and they definitely are not the best cans for sound isolation.
As for the GS60. My girlfriend just got hers yesterday, coincidentally. I'll let you know what she has to say about the fan noise when she starts playing taxing games on it. I can tell you that running the same game for the same amount of time, the GS60 remained much cooler than the Blade, is considerably cheaper, and has a TB of HDD storage along with a 128GB SSD. Also, I think I may have a bad fan bearing on my Blade?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9&cm_re=GS60_Ghost_265-_-34-152-709-_-Product

 

I have MSI GS60 (with GTX 970M), I've been also following info about other similar notebooks before I got it, including Razer Blade.

The main noise complain about MSI GS60 is about CPU fan noise while idle (e.g. having it just switched on, doing nothing, or doing lightweight tasks like surfing the web or writing text). Its fan speed tables are tuned to prefer colder temperatures over less noise.

Other notebooks like Razer Blade, Clevo P650, Gigabyte P34/P35 or Aorus X3 are more quiet on idle but more noisy under the load (like playing demanding games). This would correspond to NotebookCheck higher max loudness values.