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.