How quiet is the fan compared to a typical newer laptop PC?
378958
There are actually three fans in the inspiron-660 - a chassis fan, a power supply fan and a processor fan. After several weeks of ownership, I still haven't heard ANY of the fans running, but clearly see that both the power supply fan and chassis fan are spinning. Complete silence!
378959
The fan is very quiet; the hard drive seems a little louder than my last Dell.
378960
I have an older Dell Desktop PC and this PC is like a whisper compared to my older PC. As for new PCs, I can't speak directly about this, but this machine is very quiet. Can't tell when it is on or off.
378961
what fan ;-) barely hear it and at the moment it's on top of my desk, right next to me.
1831338
I've had mine since February 2013 and can't say the fan is loud. I have had issues with it freezing up and having to reboot though.
88310
Ours is quiet. You can hear it but it sounds like a the fan that is built into our laptop. I wouldn't call it high pitch... that would be annoying.
2055776
I have all fans connected and would say it's fairly quiet. My video card fan is louder then the rest.
451626
The fan is very quiet and the laptop does not get very hot. Only thing I dont like is windows 8.
2057415
Fan has two intensity modes, normal and high. Under normal intensity the fan is pretty quiet. After prolonged or heavy use high-intensity mode kicks in and the fan sound is more audible but not annoying. It is not louder than a typical laptop computer.After I installed Vista and upgraded to the latest Intel 945 graphics driver (to run Aero), the high intensity fan mode kicks in quite a lot. But, afer I installed the latest bios v3304 the fan operation is again pretty quiet. See www.aspireoneuser.com for info on upgrading the bios.
2154294
Sorry for the delayed answer. The fan is not at all loud. Definitely less noise than my full-sized HP.
771197
Define "really loud." Mine makes a noticeable noise throughout its entire on-cycle, but it is slightly louder on start-up. If I had to compare the running noise, though, I'd say slightly above desktop fan and slightly below window fan. It's not "whisper-quiet," that's for sure. But, the 'white noise' effect is somewhat soothing, I find. That's just me, though. I hope this helps!
1061725
For a big fan, the lower speed is quite quiet, but I would say it depends upon how loud your music is and how big an area the room covers. My rooms are small and I can sit in the kitchen with my laptop and radio on and I do not hear any noise from the fan in the next connecting room, and the fan is on middle speed.
2110827
It does not make a lot of noise at all. In comparison to my old fan it is very quiet, barely noticeable. I sleep with it so it is important that it doesn't make a whole lot of noise.
1695921
I have one at work in an open-case tower and I've never noticed it make any significant amount of noise whether the card is fully utilized or idle. It's pretty quiet overall.
1435935
Its pretty quite if you adjust the fan curve currently, If you keep the default fan curve its fairly loud, but it depends on how demanding the game is.
171721
Good question, actually the fan is very quiet and doesn't seem to drown out much in the way of sound.
1503621
It is a very quiet and nice fan. it comes with screws. there is no vibrations when you screw the fan to the computer.
2216439
well, I would say yes, but laptops are just a little quieter, but for me its not loud at all :)
2055778
Not too much. They are audible, by no means silent, however it's not like a plug in fan. Ill also note, my case cracked along the bottom, and the only times it's been moved were placing the pc on its side to work on it. Just saying.
566413
You can hear the fan for sure, but I don't find it overly loud or noisy. The fan under my microwave is 100 times louder... this is more like a small cpu fan....