T420 fan speed

Hi there
My T420 with i5 2540M and integrated graphics shows following fan behavior:
- No load 3300rpm with CPU temp <55 C
- Max load 3600rpm with CPU temp ~85C (due to CPU throttling, I assume)
Is this a normal behavior observed on other T420 as well? I now reverted to tpfancontrol which stops the fan in idle mode at 52 C and gradually increases it up to 5000rpm for max load.
This works for me, but I would be happy if it worked in BIOS mode as well. Anybody with suggestions or the same problems? Thanks in advance!

Under 15% load, CPU is clocked to ~800MHz and fan is at 3544 RPM as reported by speedfan. Temperature is 42 C. Fan is inaudible.
Running graphics intensive program on iGPU, CPU bounces between 800MHz and 2.5GHz. CPU load is reported as under 20%. CPU temp climbs until it eventually reaches 97C it then seems to throttle, but seems to try to stay around 85. Fan was running at 4,527RPM The processor and dGPU share the heatsink and the dGPU shows a temp of 83C under 0% load at this time. nVidia GPU Activity Icon reports no programs are using dGPU.
Running a single threaded high CPU program, with nothing graphics intensive temperature will go up to 97C, CPU clocks up to 3.2GHZ and stays around 3.1 to 3.2GHz at all times. Fan speed reported as 4510RPM in BIOS mode. Fan speed goes up to 6487 with speedfan. Turbo Boost Plus allows the fan to go tup 54544RPM.
High GPU program on dGPU (NVS 4200M), CPU reports load of under 30%. Processor speed bounces from 2.5GHz to 800MHz. GPU temperature approaches 99C and processor temperature never exceeds 92C. Fan speed reported as 4527.
High GPU (igpu) plus High CPU, CPU load of up to 75%. CPU speeds around 2.5GHz with minimal throttling as low as 1.6GHz. GPU temperature approaches 99C. Fan 4510 RPM.
I'm interested in finding out why your CPU temp never gets over 85C.
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the cpu greece tests over the years are the most bunch of snake oil i ever seen.
one review site did a test with 50 and used choclate and fingernail polish to show most are complete waste of money.
compaq builds junk.
lenovo dose not.
the real reason is the notebook makers dont even built the latops.
there like 3 companys that make 90% of the worlds notebooks and pc.
you never even heard of them either.
they make the sonys,acers and so on in a plant on a line with dozens of brands.
just like the way foxconn makes the apples these are huge companys that make the products per instruction of the notebook brand.
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when you release this you release that spot.
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cpu coolers of notebook are well designed unlike the desktop cooler they make very good contact.
discrete graphics is another story most of all on compaqs with they used a very bad design and had majior issues with.
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when the cpu was mated to the motherboard it perfict that day.
when you pull the cpu now it never fit the same exact way as it has been stressed over time by the tourqe and the heat.
pulling it will effect the fit.
most people dont have the skill to change the greece on a cpu because they will use to much and unlike a desktop cpu that has no open transistors on the surface the mobile cpu dose.
they will add too much and it will run and short out them.
look at a pic of a mobile cpu and then a desktop cpu.
a very different design.
what you telling people is a skill they dont have because they have no idea that a simple mistake will cost them hundreads of dollers.
notebook cpu run 200-300 dollers and some 500 bucks.
pulling the cpu heatsink will effect it natural fit because it under tenion.
i know this because i know metals well and i have 20 years of experence in this area.
i alos worked for a company long ago that made robots for the waffer cpu come from.
i think some people think they might know a quik fix because they built a pc before but notebooks are very different.
i do custom notebook setups for people up here in boston who are willing to spend more on my labour then most notebooks cost.
when i set up a pc it takes me 4-6 hours normally thats a standard win 7 time with all security and services adjusted complete.
people pay for my services because they get longer run times and they stomp anything even notebook makers that charge thousands for custom setups.
if i thought putting snake oil on a cpu would lower temps i would do it just for the lower fan noise and power use it would save.
i know the moment i release the heatsink i never recreate the same exact fit it had under the stress that time made and the point of contact metal to metal will allways be better then if you add silicon to it.
most people dont get that more then a pin head will be more then enough because more then that will cause a heat barrier and lower that.
there whole point to thermal paste is to fill graps in the metal that are from the lapping process.
it not to help cool it like some think.
no thermal paste will ever work better then a pure magnetic grip of metal to metal.
infact if you machine two blocks perfict they stick to each other as if they were magnets.
tourqe them and add heat and they never do that again.
that why latops heatsinks i feel are much more different them desktops one and what most people dont grasp.
dont belive me call your high school science teacher and he explaine why to you.

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(1) Is the hardware still capable of automatically accelerating the fans as temperatures rise while gaming in Windows?
(2) What In Windows forces the MBP-R to lock the nVidia GPU into continuous duty and ignores Intel GPU?
(3) What control does the user have for (2)?
(4) How can I protect my MacBook Pro/Retina from overheating while playing PC games, apart from not playing games?

Moved from the Creative Cloud to the Lightroom forum. They will be able to help you here.

How can I control my fan speed?

How can I control my fan speed on my macbook pro? I use SMC for gaming and streaming video from the internet when using my Mac OS, but I partitioned my drive and installed Windows 8 in order to play a different game (not a huge game) and the computer heats up dramatically when playing on Windows through Boot Camp to the point that it freezes every time (it never does this when playing a mac game or streaming on the normal partition Mac OS).
Any suggestions or programs to control fan speed of the mac from windows?

Get a cooling pad. That will much better than trying to constantly adjust fan speeds.
Ciao.

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)

Unusual Fan-Speed (up to 6200rpm @ 92°CPU), MBP 2011/ OSX 10.10.2

Dear Community,
I've got a problem with my MacBook Pro (late 2011) [2.4 Ghz/ 16GB RAM (upgraded)/ 256 GB SSD (upgraded)/ 500GB HDD (internal, upgraded (instead of DualDrive, iFixit-slot)).
Since last week I am observing that the fan of my Macbook revs up pretty high and pretty quickly up to 92° CPU temperature @ 6200rpm of the fan according to iStats Pro. This can happen in idle as well as load of any kind. I already cleaned the fan. Never experienced it before. Pretty unusual behaviour.
Do you have any suggestions/ guesses/ tips/ help for me? Thank you very much in advance.
Here's a copy of an (Etre)Check that I just recently ran. Hopefully it helps:
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated 17 Feb 2015 09:56:42 CET
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Hardware Information: ℹ️
    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) (Technical Specifications)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
    1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
    16 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 204
Video Information: ℹ️
    Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
        Color LCD 1280 x 800
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System Software: ℹ️
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            Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked
            Core Storage: disk0s2 255.20 GB Online
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USB Information: ℹ️
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Startup Items: ℹ️
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Launch Daemons: ℹ️
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    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Click for support]
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User Login Items: ℹ️
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Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
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User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
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Time Machine: ℹ️
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Thank you very much for your answer, OGELTHORPE.
I actually did reset the SMC several times the last few days and also observed unusual behaviour by the use of the Activity Monitor – with no result.
The CPU temperature as well as the fan speed can be at a top level without many processes at all. Happened right before I posted my question just after the last start of the system. Of course it also happens when I run a whole bunch of applications, but even in that case it differs. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it's totally normal. That's why I called it "unusual".
Any further ideas besides the SMC reset?

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?

Mac mini slow and high fan speeds

Hello! I have a 2011 mid range mac mini and love the machine, however I have noticed a few things. First off, it seems to be a bit on the slow side when multitasking. I have the standard 4 gigs of ram installed, but running programs like MS Word and Safari at the same time, the machine seems to struggle a bit. Also I have noticed when doing a lot of file transfers via USB, the fan will kick up to high gear for a few minutes and then drop down. Is there something wrong or is this normal? I'm doing a time machine backup of 120Gigs, have safari open and activity monitor open.
Activity monitor states 1.16Gigs free, 792MB wired, 961.4MB active, 1.12GB inactive, 2.84GB used. VM size is 150GB, page ins are 962, outs are 380kb, swap used is 10.5MB. Right now the fan seems to have slowed to a mid range mode of some sort and is not in high gear. Thanks!

How many apps you instaled? how many pictures videos and time you get usigm it? let them a litlle sleep, and your mac nmini will ne wel.
As far as the fan is concerned, it will rev up and down
based primarily on CPU load. If something is using
up a lot of processor, it gets hot and therefor the fan
speeds up to cool it down, or atleast maintain a safe temp.
When the fan revs up, open Activity Monitor and see how
much processor resources are being used and look at
the list to see if any one process is using up CPU. This
can also give an idea of what may be slowing things down
as well.
And yes, when doing a lot of file transfers, things may
possibly rev up a bit if it is continuous for a period of time.

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