In my new FW13 (Ryzen 7040) I’m noticing the fan speed seems to be erratic: the fans are generally quiet and temperature seems ok, but occasionally the fans speeds up in bursts.
Since I’ve never noticed this before in a laptop I wanted to check if this is normal.
Yes, this appears to be quite common for the AMD model. I experience the same.
It is pretty bursty because with stock fan curve and thermal paste, the cpu idles just below the fan ramp up temperature, so sometimes when doing really light tasks it spins up for a second. If you were to repaste with PTM7950 or liquid metal I don’t think this would be an issue.
I assume this isn’t anything particularly harmful, so I guess there isn’t a need to repaste.
No, it isn’t, but after I repasted from stock it happens much less often.
Any way to adjust the stock fan curve?
not to my knowledge but I haven’t done too much research
making the laptop run a little cooler is pretty easy as there are a variety of ways to do this
this fixes the issue by preventing the system from idling just below the fan ramp threshold
These fans are insane. On my FW13 it’s going at full speed at 20% CPU load. Makes it hard to use the machine. What’s the fix?
Its not load based, it’s temperature based. I would take steps to make it run cooler like repasting if you’ve had it awhile (PTM or NT-H2 works), using it on a desk so your fan isn’t getting choked, and stuff like that. Another thing, what OS and hardware are you using? The fix isn’t software or firmware its pretty much just that fan noise is a fact of life. Other laptop manufacturers throttle their cpus to be quiet, but frameworks are set to run cooler to improve performance at the cost of noise levels (slightly). As a FW13 user myself, I would say it’s really not bad at all after a NT-H2 repaste.
On Linux - and even in the BIOS (!) - the fan action on my 2024 F13 was driving me to distraction, and from out of the box. But there is a - Linux only - solution, here.
I had not thought about repasting, but now that the thread has given me the idea, it is tempting, because (even with the new - software - fan configuration) I’d rather hear the fans less.
After a ton of back and forth with FW I came to the conclusion that the fan calibration on the BIOS is super wacky and the only thing that chills it out is setting the system performance to max efficiency.
There’s another thread about this that includes a request from Matt Hartley (a Framework employee) to share information if it’s still happening to you.
I’ve reapplied paste on a variety of laptops I’ve owned in the pas, but I don’t think it’s a useful step to take in this case, because it looks like the problem is coming from the firmware implementation on the laptop, and/or a problem with one of the sensors.
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