Re: PC fan getting very loud

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:

Thank you Alexander V. Makartsev 

> You can monitor and log temperatures and other characteristics with
> 'psensor'.
> TCase of i5-4570T is only 66.35°C and that means CPU will have to keep
> the temperature at that point or lower.
> I'd expect an idle temperature of this CPU (without any load) with this
> cooling solution will be already around 40-45°C if not higher.

This is exactly what I've been thinking as well

> By simple launching of any application will make the CPU load to spike
> to 100% and heat to build up.

seems to be the case

> I'm not sure if disabling CPU vulnerabilities mitigations
> (meltdown\spectre) would improve the performance of the CPU, allowing it
> to go into idle state sooner and this way make it cooler without
> resorting to throttling.

I was also thinking of this, but I'll try to find a bios update first

> Opening the case won't help much and will probably be more harmful if
> the cooling solution was designed to make the air flow through the case
> and this way cooldown the other components of this unit.

thank you for confirming my thoughts

> I doubt you can do anything to improve cooling efficiency of this
> mini-PC, because its cooling solution is not standard and you can't just
> replace it with a more efficient one, like you can with standard PC.
> Basically, a small sized cooler fan means it will have higher RPM
> (3000+) and high RPM means it will produce a lot of loud noise.

We can try to find a low noise one if possible. If not the PC will be
replaced.