zkyevolved
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I hear my 1545 sp4 fan while playing Hearthstone while streaming music from Google music in the browser to Bluetooth speakers! That's just about it. Just hearthstone and it's silent. I also put it to low graphics.
I hear my 1545 sp4 fan while playing Hearthstone while streaming music from Google music in the browser to Bluetooth speakers! That's just about it. Just hearthstone and it's silent. I also put it to low graphics.
And how's the performance on the m3? I saw some reports that showed that it stayed a lot of time in turbo mode.Yeah, that's mostly why I returned my i5
I have an SP4 i7/16GB/256GB and I am very disappointed with the amount of noise this thing makes.
I returned my SP3 because of that reason and I waited patiently for over a year (using a very old laptop) for the SP4 to be ready. I thought Microsoft would get it right by this iteration but the amount of noise remains high. (Never had an issue in this regard with my SP2).
I might end up returning this one as well as to me the level of noise and the amount of times that fan needs to kick in is unacceptable. The fan kicks in for menial things such as a small change in the OneDrive folder that triggers a sync, watching a youtube video... Sometimes just viewing web pages.
I love the tablet itself. It's gorgeous, fast, the screen is amazing... I have been trying to get past the noise and tell myself that maybe it's in my head... But then the fan kicks again and tells me that perhaps it is not.
Thanks for the reply slysy. I use Firefox and don't have Flash installed. All HTML5 videos.Have you tried disabling flash in your browser?
Have you tried the trick to force chrome to use hardware decoding?
My experience so far is that the fan has not come on except during gaming (and initial setup/indexing). It was quite loud when it did come on.