Samsung 700G7C Series 7 - Fan speed & GPU temp

[Huwbutts]

Hi, new to the forum - desperately need advice regarding the fan speed on my new 700G7C.

It's the second one I've had due to a loose left mouse button (incidentally, the one on my current one is worse - I just can't be arsed). I've found the same on both.

Anywho, the fan noise is beyond acceptable when the laptop is idling - that is, no programs running. The CPU is lovely and cool at about a constant 35C, however the GPU creeps up to 40C, the fans spin up to a fairly high speed until it reaches 35C again (takes about 5 seconds). This is the same no matter what power option is enabled.

In addition, Samsung's ironically-named 'Easy Settings', when installed, changes these thresholds to 45C-50C. Again, the GPU creeps up to 50C easily when idling.

So, two questions I REALLY need the answer to, before I sell it on for an (unreliable but still a competently-designed cooling system) ASUS:

1. The rise in GPU temp - is this normal?
2. Is there a way to change the threshold temps using software, in order to maintain a constant low speed and therefore a constant temperature? Speedfan doesn't want to know, and a potential program Notebook FanControl http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1070494 seems to only work with CPU temps (as far as I can tell).

Samsung Support whinge about not being technical experts - and there I was thinking they could do such a thing as to forward it onto an expert. What an idiot I must be...

Any replies would be greatly appreciated!

Huw Rees

 

[Rroff]

Have to say mine is pretty quiet unless I stick it into turbo mode.

I did a clean install tho from the provided CD (make sure you download and stick a copy of the network drivers onto a USB stick or something tho as for some reason they aren't provided and its a pain getting them if you don't have network access :S) and only installed Easy Settings and the Software Updater as I found the rest of the included rubbish was causing issues and slowing performance down.

 

[Huwbutts]

Yeah, I've done multiple clean installs. So, your fans aren't spinning up when idling? There's a great sidebar gadget https://www.dropbox.com/s/hk5iyg3x52c89ld/GPUObserver37.gadget that tells you your GPU temp. I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know what kind of temps you're getting, and what your fans are also doing.

Best wishes,
Huw