Nvidia GPU auto-fan-speed -before- X?

...something I've always wanted to be able to do. If I want a quiet CLI session I have to start X then dump it (logging out of my WM speeds the fan up again).
What I want to do is have the appropriate driver loaded before X (as early as possible, actually).
Has anyone done this? I've never been able to find anything on it.
Here's part of my rc.conf:
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(!snd_pcsp)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal network netfs crond)
...and my xorg.conf:
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
# Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
EndSubSection
EndSection

dger wrote:
Thanks for the responses. It makes sense that the fan runs at max speed before the driver is loaded.
I was wondering if there was some way to load it without starting X, but maybe there's not.
This is a shot in the dark, as I've never tried this before, but what happens when you do:
modprobe nvidia
before X starts?

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Controlling Fan Speed: "no pwm-capable sensor modules"

Thanks for stopping by - my problem is as follows:
lately the noise of my cpu (/chasis) fan is driving me nuts, so I wanted to lower the speed.
I followed this arch wiki guide.
this is my output of "sensors":
[blub ~ ]$ sensors
atk0110-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
Vcore Voltage: +1.16 V (min = +0.85 V, max = +1.60 V)
+3.3 Voltage: +3.34 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V)
+5 Voltage: +5.06 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V)
+12 Voltage: +12.26 V (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V)
CPU FAN Speed: 4028 RPM (min = 600 RPM)
CHASSIS1 FAN Speed: 1654 RPM (min = 600 RPM)
CHASSIS2 FAN Speed: 562 RPM (min = 600 RPM)
CHASSIS3 FAN Speed: 0 RPM (min = 800 RPM)
CPU Temperature: +46.0°C (high = +60.0°C, crit = +95.0°C)
MB Temperature: +40.0°C (high = +45.0°C, crit = +95.0°C)
Most of the time my cpu fan speed is around 3800 rpm or more, even if the cpu temperature is stable on around 46°C.
I followed the guide and wanted to run "pwmconfig" - this is what I get, when running it as root:
[blub ~ ]$ sudo pwmconfig
# pwmconfig revision 5857 (2010-08-22)
This program will search your sensors for pulse width modulation (pwm)
controls, and test each one to see if it controls a fan on
your motherboard. Note that many motherboards do not have pwm
circuitry installed, even if your sensor chip supports pwm.
We will attempt to briefly stop each fan using the pwm controls.
The program will attempt to restore each fan to full speed
after testing. However, it is ** very important ** that you
physically verify that the fans have been to full speed
after the program has completed.
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
For whatever reason, it is not finding any "pwm-capable sensor modules"..
I googled around and couldn't find any workaround for my issue and hoping you guys can help me out.
here you have some more hw info about my system:
[blub ~ ]$ inxi -F
System: Host: blub Kernel: 3.1.5-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop KDE 4.7.4 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5K-E version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 0503 date: 06/26/2007
CPU: Quad core Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 2405.643 MHz 2: 2405.643 MHz 3: 2405.643 MHz 4: 2405.643 MHz
Graphics: Card: nVidia G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] X.Org: 1.11.2 driver: nvidia Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: GeForce 8800 GTX/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10
Audio: Card-1: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Card-2: Logitech USB Headset driver: USB Audio
Network: Card-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:1b:fc:66:05:dc
Card-2: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too
IF: eth1 state: down mac: 00:02:44:0e:0c:41
Card-3: Realtek RTL8187 Wireless Adapter driver: rtl8187
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:15:af:0f:c8:48
Drives: HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (64.1% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD2500JS 250.1GB
2: USB /dev/sdb Disk 500.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 29G used: 14G (52%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 139G used: 42G (32%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 4.10GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0C mobo: 39.0C gpu: 89C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3648 sys-1: 1654 sys-2: 0 sys-3: 0
Info: Processes: 210 Uptime: 27 min Memory: 2460.9/7989.9MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.27
Hopefully you guys can help me fix this, since this issue is driving me insane and working is almost impossible with this noise all the time.
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Mac Mini fan speed shoots up with GPU use

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I have a 1.83 C2D mini that's recently been giving me problems. I opened it up to install a new airport card (having separate issues with that!) and at some point my fan started acting up. The mini was always dead quiet. Now, anytime I do something GPU intensive the fan shoots up to 4500-5500 RPM (tested with smcfancontrol).
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Hi,
Only have one temperature monitoring application running or you could end up with erroneous readings.
Try PC Wizzard. Depending on your hardware, you should see temperatures for CPU, GPU and disk. At the same site you can also try HW Monitor.
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Hi,
I'm hearing slight similar problems around this subject but this one seems to be obscure.
My iMac 20inch (Early 2008 - 8,1) has just passed by the 3 year mark now and only yesterday just suddenly started haven't this weird gain in fan speeds mainly on the CPU.
Checking the temperature in iStat shows that its coming mainly from the GPU (GPU - 79c / GPU diode - 91c / GPU heatsink - 83c) and that's from looking as I type this.
I've done the SMC reset a few times and the PRAM reset too, but that's only managed to make things worse...occasionally on startup after the resets the screen will blank out and ask me to reset.
Below are screenshots from istats of the state of my iMac during idle:
Hope someone can help and this be of some help to others in the same situation.

I think a SMC reset will handle this for you. If not then also do a PRAM reset.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

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Yes its safe
"Bec. i think this is pretty hot. Or is it?"
No GPU usually is running hot, its normal. If you don't have troubles ignore the temp.

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Has anyone had similar problems?
Is there any way of adjusting the fan speed or is it done automatically by the graphics card? ;(

Haha..
I personally wouldn't really rely on 3D! Turbo Experience for fan speed readings. I have a MSI GeForce 3 Ti200 equipped with a tiny little fan which I doubt would do any serious cooling, and 3D!TE tells me that it is spinning at about 5000rpm. But other than that, the voltage stuff is correct I guess haha...

Nvidia GTX660Ti PE 2GD5/OC Fan Speed 4200RPM+ HELP!!

Hey,
Im just wondering if anyone can help me. Basically my card has been running at max RPM of the fans, It has always ran high but never this high or loud, i have tried MSI afterburner and it will not change the fan speeds at all. It will stay always be around the 4199 to 4399+ mark of RPMs and its just insane. I have formatted my computer and changed motherboard and it still happens.
Please any help would be appreciated

Did it do it with the original drivers that came with the card? Did you do a driver update before this started happening? If so, uninstall the latest drivers and revert to your original and see if anything changes.
Perhaps Svet can check if there is an updated VBIOS that addresses this issue.
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I wonder if someone can tell me how can i know the temperature and fan speed of my MSI Gforce FX 5900 XT-VTD.
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Tweak the balance between fan speed and CPU temperature / Dell M6400?

Hi all,
I have a Dell Precision M6400 17" laptop. It runs really well on Arch, but is a bit noisy. It has always been noisy, btw, but I recently noticed that the CPU fan was blowing a lot of air even though the CPU temperature is lower than 70°C. I also have a macbook air, and its CPU runs at 70°C all the time, which seems to be normal. I would like my m6400 to behave similarly, and I'm sure someone here know how to change that
Hardware configuration
* Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q9300 @ 2.53GHz
* Quadro FX 2700M (G94M)
* 8Go RAM
* 2 hard drives
lspci output
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G94M [Quadro FX 2700M] (rev a1)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
03:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300
output of sensors, idle:
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +45.5°C (crit = +107.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +51.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: +51.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +48.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 3: +46.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
output of sensors when I start interacting (light browsing, mail, chat):
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +59.5°C (crit = +107.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +63.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: +63.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +62.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 3: +63.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
When I start the laptop, its CPU fan stays at its minimal speed only for 1 or 2 minutes, then increases its rotation speed to a second level. It reaches it maximal speed only under heavy load, when the CPU reaches >80-95°C. I would rather let the CPU run a bit hotter before the fan starts to blow: let's say the fan could enter its intermediary speed between 70°C and 85°C instead of 55-80°C, and blow at is its maximum speed beyond that.
I checked the Fan Speed Control wiki page, but lm-sensors is not able to show me the status of the fans. Any idea ?
Aurel.
PS: the temperature of the GPU is not reported by sensors, and nvidia-settings reports around 60°C. Its dedicated fan is very quiet.

aurelieng wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Dell Precision M6400 17" laptop. It runs really well on Arch, but is a bit noisy. It has always been noisy, btw, but I recently noticed that the CPU fan was blowing a lot of air even though the CPU temperature is lower than 70°C. I also have a macbook air, and its CPU runs at 70°C all the time, which seems to be normal. I would like my m6400 to behave similarly, and I'm sure someone here know how to change that
Hi aurelieng,
I'm in the same situation from at least 1 month ( INTEL CORE 2 EXTREME X9100, 3.06GHz with 8GB ram, one solid state disk 128 GB, and one sata disk 500GB)
My dell M6400 has dual boot: ubuntu and windows7. The fan works a lot and continuosly in both environment and this is the reason because I have doubt that the origin of the problem is in hardware problem?
output of sensors when I start interacting (light browsing, mail, chat):
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +41.5°C (crit = +107.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +41.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: +41.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Last edited by ginard (2012-11-16 18:09:19)

Xorg 1.6, nivida drivers, and fan speed

I know the older nvidia drivers are not compatible with the new xorg, nor the nvidia-utils as I tried and found out!
I have 2 issues with this pc: I have a 6800gt nvidia card and the fan is constantly near 100% or close enough! I tried to install and run nvclock but it wont change the fan speed for this 6800 model. My xorg is below but I am not sure the drivers are working too good as the glxgears are only 140fps! I have a an older laptop with a smaller graphics card getting over 1000 fps!
NOW, before anyone gets excited I know glxgears is not the "best" benchmark, but its a decent one and accurate enough that I wont go from 140fps using it to 1000 fps using a similar bench.
I also tried to update the driver to the nouveau-drm driver but not sure if its installed or how to get it loaded in xorg. Any suggestions on these 2 issues?
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Option "DPMS" "True"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # <i>
#Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "BackingStore" "True"
Option "DamageEvents" "True"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV40 [GeForce 6800]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0
SubSection "Display"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
#Section "ServerFlags"
# Option "AutoAddDevices" " False"
#EndSection

Any suggestions on this nvidia issue?

Proprietary nVidia driver pegs fan at 65%

Window-shot:
http://i.imgur.com/feNCk2v.png
$ lspci | grep "VGA"
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 620] (rev a1)
$ pacman -Qi nvidia
Name : nvidia
Version : 325.15-5
Description : NVIDIA drivers for linux
Architecture : i686
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : linux>=3.10 linux<3.11 nvidia-libgl nvidia-utils=325.15
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : nvidia-96xx nvidia-173xx
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 3731.00 KiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]>
Build Date : Fri 30 Aug 2013 06:11:40 PM NDT
Install Date : Thu 05 Sep 2013 11:00:43 PM NDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Device0"
Option "Coolbits" "4"
Option "DPMS" "false"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Everything works well, even native Steam and games. However my GPU fan is constantly pegged at 65%. I'd like this to be lower. The speed is "variable" and I believe that is what I want - automatically adjust to temperature. However, I'd like the fan speed to be lower and automatically adjust to temperature. I'm new to the proprietary nVidia driver so please bear with me and hopefully it is just something simple I've missed.

Awesome that's got it working. Now for another question: How do I get it the module to load automatically like the stock kernel does?
The normal "modprobe nvidia" reports module not found so I'm having to do "insmod /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-4.0-ARCH/nvidia.ko.gz" (at first that gave a bunch of undefined symbol errors but that was resolved by manually doing a "modprobe drm")
So how does modprobe whatever autoloads the modules at boot know where to look? I already symlinked /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-4.0-ARCH to /usr/lib/modules/4.0.0-rc1-ARCH/extramodules like the stock kernel does but I guess that's not enough.

Thinkpad T430u low fan speed

Hello!
When I am playing on thinkpad t430u CPU/GPU becomes very hot (95-100C), but fan speed is only 3000-3500 RPM. Using "tpfancontrol" I achieved almost 5000 RPM at manual mode and temperatures decreases to 70-75C.
Why fan is so slow at auto mode?
I updated BIOS, but it does not help. Moreover in BIOS there is no fan settings (quiet/performance) as on my old PC.
OS: Windows 8, Nvidia GPU, latest drivers.
Thanks!

Hi!
During normal working (word, firefox etc..) temp is around 60-75° with the fan always running at 3800rpm.
While I was doing a map upgrade on my garmin navigation system the notebook crashed many times in a row and I couldn't figure out why.
After some investigation I found out that it was the system overheating protection shutting it down.
I checked this by putting stress on the cpu with prim95 and there the temp goes up as I described in the previous post - just faster than weith the map upgrade. Ambient was 23-24° C.
What just made me wonder is why the hell doesn't the fan speed go up like it once used to do!?
I would expect the fan speed rising at around 75° or so but instead it started at 95° C which way too late!
This is my 3rd Thinkpad and I never experienced this behavior - however I am not sure when it started.

Geforce 9800GT always at 100% fan speed, no adjustment possible

Here's what I've discovered so far:
Changing the fan speed (even with superuser privileges) in nvidia-settings doesn't work.
"nvclock -f -F 50" outputs: Error: adjustment of the fanspeed isn't supported on your type of videocard!
nvidia-settings reveals the GPU is at 65% speed all the time, even when the fan is supposedly on "auto" and cold. I can change the fan manually above 65% (but only in nvidia-settings); however, the fan does not make any audible changes in noise level.
nvclock reports GPU temp is -398C. nvidia-settings reveals what I believe to be the correct temperature of 37-38C (it does fluctuate)
Strange things that I don't think are directly related to this problem
2D and 3D clocks appear to be the same stock under nvidia-settings. Overclocking appears to work, but changes both at the same time.

nvidia 310.19-2, nvidia-utils 310.19-1, nvclock 0.8b4-3, lib32-nvidia-utils 310.19-1
uname -a: Linux arsenic 3.6.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 26 22:10:40 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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I realized that only left side of my laptop's fan is working at full potential, whereas the right side of my laptop's fan is very quiet and silent, shouldn't it be dual fan working at the same time with same performance With cooler booster the fan should be quiet right ? But I found it quite noisy when the machine heats up and the fan starts to blow real strong, and somehow the machine will heat up and the fan speed starts to go up even when I leave my laptop there doing nothing , which is kinda annoying and makes me doubt the technology of MSI. Anyone faces the same issues here ? Or maybe I didn't configure the optimum system for the fan

Hi,
I think that's because one FAN is for CPU, the other is for GPU. Nvidia GPU is not always ON, most of the time is handled by INTEL graphic, and of course Nvida GPU FAN wouldn't start.
As for the FAN would randomly starts, I think that's because some applications still run in the background, especially the Windows auto update would take high CPU usage rate when it is running.

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