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So, do *all* HP laptops have asthma?
Recoil42
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So here's the deal. I'm looking to get an HP laptop, but I need help on something. Last week, I bought an Inspiron 13 which is now en-route to my house. It was a pretty good deal, and I love the form factor.
But yesterday, a friend threw me this awesome deal on a HP dv5-1135ca, that, for lack of a better wording, is just too good to pass up. It's a 15", but much better specs for about the same price, and HDMI, eSATA, remote control, better speakers.....
The only thing is, my girlfriend has a dv2000 (dv2700), and I *hate* it. It has this fan issue that sounds like the damn thing has asthma.
It's like there's no modulation in the temperature chip, and no leeway buffer. Fan turns on, hits full peak, turns off again. And for what I assume is the length of time it takes for heat to build again -- wait five seconds.
Rinse, repeat.
You can't hear it when the TV is on -- but in a quiet room, it's annoying as fuck:
While I really, really want to pull the trigger on the HP, there's no way I could stand this.
Obviously, there's a slim chance anyone in here has a dv5 specifically, but can anyone weigh in at all that has a HP laptop? I'm just trying to find out how common the fan thing is through the entire line.
But yesterday, a friend threw me this awesome deal on a HP dv5-1135ca, that, for lack of a better wording, is just too good to pass up. It's a 15", but much better specs for about the same price, and HDMI, eSATA, remote control, better speakers.....
The only thing is, my girlfriend has a dv2000 (dv2700), and I *hate* it. It has this fan issue that sounds like the damn thing has asthma.
It's like there's no modulation in the temperature chip, and no leeway buffer. Fan turns on, hits full peak, turns off again. And for what I assume is the length of time it takes for heat to build again -- wait five seconds.
Rinse, repeat.
You can't hear it when the TV is on -- but in a quiet room, it's annoying as fuck:
*quiet room*
*....wheeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeew.....*
*five seconds of silence*
*....wheeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeew.....*
*five seconds of silence*
*....wheeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeew.....*
ad infinitum
While I really, really want to pull the trigger on the HP, there's no way I could stand this.
Obviously, there's a slim chance anyone in here has a dv5 specifically, but can anyone weigh in at all that has a HP laptop? I'm just trying to find out how common the fan thing is through the entire line.
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Does she have an NVIDIA GPU in there? Because I know that's the fix they were prescribing for the "entire 7000-8000 series mobile GPUs failing like mad" - they modified the BIOS fan control to either "Off" or "Full Blast."
You can control it via SpeedFan though.
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That was actually what I was thinking too, I made her bring hers over to my place last night to look at her specs, and see how they compared, the nvidia was what I expected to find, or at least some kind of dedicated card, but yeah, it's a 945. Hence my apprehension.
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Not that it kept my NVIDIA GPU from running ~200 degrees in my DV 2000somethingorother.
My roommate has a dv6700 that has the same fan-throttle-butterflying. I don't remember noticing it on mine though.
'wheee-EEEEEEEEEEE-eeeeeeeeeeeeeewph!'
That said, the 85xx (8510w I want to say... workstation lappies with firegl cards) I see at work don't do it.
I'm assuming you've checked HP's site for any patches/updates that would fix your fan issue?