Satellite A660 - Fan always on and loud

Hi all,
I bought the Satellite A660-10 days ago and I love it so far.
The only issue I have is the fan noise. It is always on at 53% of the speed even when I don't do anything.
I am wondering if this is normal as I have only an intel i3.
Thanks!

I dont have Satellite A660 and cannot say for sure what happen exactly on this notebook but at the moment I have several notebooks at home including brand new Satellite U500 and I have reduced cooling method on each of them and run in Balanced power plan.
All of them are pretty quiet and fan activity is on minimum level. It runs constantly but on slow speed.
I must try to check this on Satellite A660. Friend of mine has one.
By the way: doud be careful with display driver update especially with drivers from non-Toshiba page. Maybe you will get more graphic performance but Im afraid the cooling fan will be probably louder than now.

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