Reducing HP Elitebook fan noise

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timmmay

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#2595820 1-Nov-2020 10:05

RunningMan:

Been through this before. Sat it under the desk on top of some drawers. Bit inconvenient to plug and unplug the dock cable, but concealed the noise OK.

The dock cable is only about a meter long, I don't have anywhere quite suitable other than a drawer which would make heat issues worse. I had a look on Amazon for USB-extension cables, not sure which ones can carry the high current a laptop needs, plus I'd need probably 5m to put it in another room for it to be any use.

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#2595872 1-Nov-2020 12:04

Now that you bring this up, I have an Elitebook G3 and it is absurdly noisy. I just assumed it was because was work stuff doing things. I only use outlook and a little excel as well! Most of the time it's sitting there with the screen off and the fans roaring. It's perpetually needing updates as well but I figure that's an IT thing pushing them daily. I can hear the bloody thing across the lounge.

I have an XPS sitting beside it, and the only time it's fans come on is when I render 4K video.

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#2599018 6-Nov-2020 14:24

HP came out and replaced the main board - CPU, GPU, fan, etc. The fan is still loud, but it spins up a bit less, and doesn't go crazy for no reason as often. They offered me a whole new machine but I asked for a repair first as it takes ages to reinstall software and get everything configured again.

It's still not great though. With nothing running except Speedfan the CPU core temp is about 40, which I guess isn't too bad in a room that's about 23 degrees, but a colleague with exactly the same machine it's 28 - 30 degrees - but I don't know the room temp.

I suspect the answer is "HP laptops have poor cooling and loud fans". So it's a toss-up between that and a Surface with WiFi that's not great.

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