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They dont mention it in any reviews but dell has cooling problems. Yesterday I bought a brand new g5 from a shop and fans were not spinning until 80c from which it started spinning at 4900rpm like a vacuum. Note that I have latest bios so its not temperature table problem in bios.

I found out that there is a driver for thermal power which you can install and for most people it does the work (runs 2200 rpm silent cooling for most of time and 4900 rpm when cpu gpu temp goes above around 60c which is annoying)

So I had to spend entire day on figuring out how to control cooling fans myself. And even then dell limited available speeds in bios at 0, 2200 and 4900 rpm.

Anyways now my cooling fans run at 2200 rpm until 70c and 4900 after. So i get some nice silent performance for 90% of what I do and as for gaming, full fans after 75c is fine. I ran DOOM from steam and max temps Ive got were around 85-90c which is pretty high, so Im thinking of doing a repaste event though im afraid of voiding the warranty.

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  • 1
    The price we seem to pay now with how much they cram into smaller, thinner bits of kit.

    I still prefer thin mind you.
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    I'm still going to blame bios temperature tables because my XPS 9560 started doing this since a week or so after a bios update...
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    @zlice ohh I did get this really random shutdown which was an error in the thermal software by intel. that's when I upgraded the drivers.. hrmmmm
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