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Dumb question time: I've got a hand-me-down Dell Inspiron "gaming desktop" I'm using as my work from home PC. Ryzen 7, Radeon RX 580. It works fine, but occasionally extra fans will kick on and it sounds like a drat jet engine for a few minutes. I'm guessing it's hitting a certain temperature and running those fans at full speed until it cools back down, but sometimes it'll go off for 30 seconds or so when I plug in a USB drive, or open a browser window. Not exactly power user stuff. Can I adjust some settings to keep it quieter, or can I buy some replacement fans that won't wake up everyone in the house next time I open excel?
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Apr 26, 2021 18:38
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VelociBacon posted:If it's excel/etc doing it, sounds like case fans. You should be able to go into your BIOS and look for fan control settings, adjust them to 'silent' or similar setting which should be plenty for case fans. Nothing in the BIOS regarding fans. While I was in there I did notice AMD PowerNow is enabled; I thought that was a laptop thing, should I turn it off?
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Apr 26, 2021 21:11
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Actuarial Fables posted:May want to figure out what temp the CPU is hitting to make the fans spin like that. If it's hitting a very high temp (80c+) doing basic tasks then it could be an issue with the CPU cooler (fan not spinning, thermal paste dried up..) I've had this running for a while; here's my average/max temperatures CPU: 37 / 52 Motherboard: 151 / 154 Dell EC: 45 / 47 GPU: 65 / 85 Seems like the GPU may be the culprit?
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Apr 28, 2021 18:21
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