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Fans are annoying enough when at a steady speed, but a fan that is continually changing speed sounds extra irritating if it’s in the same room. Some sort of sm

Fans are annoying enough when at a steady speed, but a fan that is continually changing speed sounds extra irritating if it’s in the same room. Some sort of smoothing plus a conservative base rate might be more tolerable.

guappa 3y ago
> a conservative base rate Do you use windows? I find that with windows the fan is always spinning, even if at low speed. While with linux most of the times it is not spinning at all.
- lostlogin 3y ago
  I’m on a Mac - and for the first time a computer I can’t hear (it’s a model with a fan).
  - guappa 3y ago
    Mac tend to run hot to be more silent. I had to throttle my CPU in my macbook or it would shutdown for overheating while compiling. I don't consider that a feature.
    - jamespo 3y ago
      sounds like an intel mac
- whywhywhywhy 3y ago
  In windows my CPU fan is always spinning although silently in my experience but my case fans spin down. ASUS motherboard Noctua fans if that makes a difference.
- fennecbutt 3y ago
  >Do you use windows In a desktop the motherboard controls the fans unless you have an alternative like fan control installed, so not windows. In a laptop it's either still the motherboard, or a specific chip used to manage the fans and other peripherals (ie for Dell/XPS it's locked out of bios control and you need to use Dell's special software to adjust it; Fuck You, Dell!), so still not Windows.
  - guappa 3y ago
    Well a basic windows install will keep the CPU more occupied than a basic linux install, when both are idle. This reflects in the CPU being hotter, which reflects in the fan spinning more.