Another workaround that seems to help me a lot if covering the inside 4 slots of the rear exhaust with electrical tape. The whine seems to come from these spots specifically. Taping both sides helps me considerably and doesn’t seem to make much impact to thermals.
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Will try that out, thank you very much!!
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Been rocking those racing stripes for a week, and they indeed make the fan noise much more bearable!
This is an aluminum tape, so it’s a bit fragile, but the adhesive holds fine. I don’t have comparative performance data for before/after, but been playing games, incl. Baldur’s Gate 3 on max settings with upscaling with FPS which are definitely higher than 60, so works for me.
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That’s awesome! Glad it works for you as well. It sounds like we do similar things with the game experience as well. I disabled windows game mode so I can leave battery saver mode on instead of being forced to high performance mode, I have FSR frame gen on, and I limit BG3 to 45 FPS in game, which results in a 90FPS frame gen experience which feels great. This results in an average 80% dGPU utilization on ULTRA everything settings which is awesome. Takes down the noise and heat, looks amazing, no complaints!
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