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I'm on a T490 right now. I can't remember ever hearing the fan. note: 20gb of ram, but I do cpu intensive things all the time.
by soperj 6y ago
I'm on a T490 right now. I can't remember ever hearing the fan.
note: 20gb of ram, but I do cpu intensive things all the time.
- pdimitar 6y agoI was on Ubuntu 20.04 with a 5.8 kernel. The moment I did an incremental compilation of a Rust project (5-10s) the fans kept at very noisy levels for at least a full minute. It was awful. :( I was at 40GB RAM (the stock soldered 8GB plus an extra 32GB stick). And for what it's worth, an external 2560x1080 display. Maybe that was it? But IMO no, it activated fans on CPU load only. Still, maybe the extra strain on the video stack kept it at a higher temperature internally so it was quick to turn on the fans at the smallest of loads? Could be. Glad it works well for you though. What OS do you use?
- soperj 6y agoActually just checked and it's 24gb of ram which makes more sense. I'm on Windows on this computer. I have Fedora on my other. I honestly never hear the fan on this computer at all, it barely runs, and when it does it's very silent. It feels like we're talking about 2 different computers.