Loud fan

APM98

APM98

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I have a HP ze5300 laptop and the fan runs all the time and it is so loud. I want to take my laptop to class but the fan is so annoying. My dad has a dell laptop and the thing is whisper quiet. I have a program that monitors the overall temp and it says it is around 65C. Is this high? and is there anything I can do about the fan? Thanks, Anth
 
65C is quite warm! My laptop runs at a toasty 46C, most of the time... Do you have an AMD processor? There might be something for Intel's as well, but I use SpeedSwitchXP with my Sempron to lock it to 800MHz. Not only does it help with heat/fan, but it prolongs the battery life by a good 25%.

Ah yes, and I forgot to mention... Mobile AMDs do tend to run quite warm, if that's what you have.
 
I have an Intel P4 2.6 512MB L2. Also this comp is pretty slow. Do u think upgrading the RAM would do anything. It does have two sticks in the bottom but im not sure of what kind it is, ill have to check later tonight.
 
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Nah, I seriously doubt adding RAM would help. I mean, unless you only have like 64M of RAM, I don't think adding some will help that much... Seeing as it's older and getting hot, you probably just have spyware or some other junk robbing some of your performace. Have you run virus/spyware scans recently? Or Hijackthis?
 
I run adware every now and then and I also have Norton. I dont know of many programs. Are there any goods ones all everyone uses?
 
You're fans are loud because Pentium 4 chips get super hot. Pentium M uses less voltage and a lower clock, but manages to push the speeds over a P4. You can try something like SpeedFan or SpeedSwitchXP as mentioned above, but I don't like altering my fans because the system turn on the fans because it needs it. You can try lowering the clock even more or using less voltage with a program like Notebook Hardware Control- it'll do that, clock down the cpu when not needed, using less voltage, giving you less heat and more battery life too.
 
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