Samsung X series – fan is on permanently on AC power.
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Samsung X series – fan is on permanently on AC power.
I’ve been looking for a new laptop recently and was seduced by a couple of Samsung X series models, X30 & X15+. Unfortunately, their fan is on permanently when on AC power, even if you use SpeedswitchXP or other methods to enable Speedstep when running on mains. There could be a software solution our there of course….
I don't know about The X15 or X30, but I just bought an X20, and the fan is not always on. The fan is teperature controlled, in two modes: "standard" and "etiquette". Undervolting the CPU and running Prime torture test, the fan remains off for CPU frequencies up to 1GHz, switches on/off intermittently (in a very slow and unobtrusive cycle) from 1.2-1.47 GHZ and stays on (at its lowest speed) at 1.6GHz.
Controlling the fan by software failed for me, though. Speedfan doesn't recognize the M/B.
Controlling the fan by software failed for me, though. Speedfan doesn't recognize the M/B.
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I tried Centrino Hardware Control, and it doesn't allow me to control the fan on my X20. Fortunately the fan is very unobtrusive in the silent mode already. I haven't tried the newer beta version of this program (now called Notebook Hardware Control).
Thanks for the hint, ibear, but I don't think I'll go throught the trouble of changing the BIOS, especially downgrading it. The noise is just not cumbersome enough, it's really quite unobtrusive with the undervolted CPU. It could maybe become an issue if I were using it a lot at home (and if I got around to silencing my second rig which has been waiting for a year now)---but I mainly use the laptop in loud places (train/work) anyway.