The fans come on with very little CPU load (10-20%) and are quite loud for a laptop: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1MBbfuiSQwmYvouH6 I’ve been dealing with FW support for several months about this, and even RMA’d the GPU unit - no luck. Is this normal for Framework 16?

Finally fixed this! The PTM replacement paste came, I took the laptop apart, and found that there was barely any liquid metal left as it all leaked out. I scraped it off following the guide and the thermals are much better now. I can recommend this procedure to anyone else facing the same issues.

Yes, the dGPU fans can be quite loud. The expansion bay shell fans however are practically silent under even relatively high loads.

Take a look through this thread: Uneven CPU thermals! It may be possible that if your CPU is using Liquid Metal compound it has pumped out and isn’t covering the cpu die correctly anymore. If you run an all core workload such as cinebench or s-tui/stress what is the difference between the hottest …

I’m not sure what’s the simplest way to show temperatures across all cores - s-tui didn’t seem to show that stat. Here is what sensors says though, and if the ACPI temps at the bottom are the individual core temps, then they are indeed way out of line with each other: $ sensors amdgpu-pci-0300 Ada…

It does look like it could be related to the Liquid Metal issue. Temperature 4 could be related to core 4, which tends to be the one with the most significant issue. The one where it’s at 90+C is with an all core workload? Is it with the stock charger and performance mode? What is the clock speed o…

The one where it is at 90+C is a multithreaded workload where none of the cores go above 10-20% utilisation. Using stock charger, not performance mode. This is what makes this issue quite annoying. How did you end up resolving this?

I did a replacement of the Liquid Metal compund. I ordered some thermal grizzly phase sheet, and some 20mm x 20mm copper shims, about .8mm thick. Using sandpaper on the shim, I smoothed it out to a fine polish and cleaned the copper dust off of it. I removed the battery from the laptop, as well as…

It’s nearly impossible to get this fixed by Framework support. I filled out the request for the replacement compound back in April, there was no progress for 100 days as they had various reasons for delays. Resurrected this topic again, there were suddenly new requirements for getting the paste, fin…

[Solved] - Are loud fans normal?

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Gmanny March 26, 2025, 8:21am 5

Try blocking four inner holes of the dGPU exhaust and see if it improves the quality of the noise. It helped me and some others make the noise more bearable.

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