[lostlogin]

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]

> 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.

[fennecbutt]

>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]

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.

[whywhywhywhy]

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.

[lostlogin]

I’m on a Mac - and for the first time a computer I can’t hear (it’s a model with a fan).

[guappa]

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]

sounds like an intel mac