I'm not sure about anyone else, but I like to keep the lowest fan setting (1) just below audible, and the highest fan setting (6) at maximum. The problem is that, with 6 points, there are only 5 steps from inaudible to very loud. It's very common that i find myself in a situation where the fan...
That would seem intuitively correct, but it isn't necessarily true. Consider a scenario in which the core temperature increases by 12 degrees per second from 50 to 80. I've prepared a table and plot comparing the actual temperature to the temperature "seen" by a 250 ms averaging of the past 4...
I've been using HWiNFO for a few months now but made an account just for this topic. I have an alienware laptop and my CPU temp spikes around within a range of 10-15 degrees (constantly while under load and intermittently otherwise). I came to the same conclusion as Betaminos that the fan speed...