Can the dedicated 750M be switched off? (in order to reduce the fan sound) How is the sound, during idle, light use, and games?
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You can control which gpu to use as you set dedicated gpu per program, or let it run default. Normally, 750m gpu won't kick in until games are running by default.Sounds like 4 speakers in really good quality. They can play relatively loud compared to my alienware m18x r1. What games are you playing?
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I don't know about the first question, but the sound is fantastic, it's lighting is very good (depending on how bright you want it to be, because it's adjustable) and the gaming is really fantastic. It runs beautifully and the fps on it is just great!
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I don't think you can switch it off, but the fan really hasn't gotten loud for me. I heard it's worse with the I7. It also only gets a little warm when gaming, but I haven't played super intense games, just DW8, R3KXI, etc...
1802676
Hello Debby, The short answer to that is no, I have had two of these PW3500s and apart from the cooling fan which is very quite they make no noise, even on full load. John.
2007949
In the overview it says the fan turns off when not needed. The powersupplies does not put out the heat others do. Best bet for better ansewer go to the Amazon site under the Corsair HX Professional series 750, and look in the overview it will go over it better than I can. THanks for wrightting. Randy PS I relay like mine a lot.
1432800
My experience has been that the fan is very quiet. Since I put a solid state drive in it, there is no hard drive noise either.
204253
There is very little noise with my unit when the fan isn't running. And the only times so far that the fans have kicked in were when I had it hooked to my TV as an external display. Don't get me wrong, the fans are far from silent when they do kick in, but with fairly normal use, they usually don't.
1506750
It's pretty quiet, but when I play really intense games (like Crysis 3) it starts to get a bit loud.
1237795
When I surf the web the laptop is using the 4600 on the cpu and fan is silent. (no heat = no fan)When I play games and use the 780 the fan is on low to med. still quiet the only time it makes a lot of noise is when you hit the fan overdrive button and I only did this to check it out, not because it was needed.
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.
535786
The fans are quiet but not silent. Normally the sound is not very noticeable but when the CPU is under load the fans will spin faster and be louder.
1950176
It is really more about what fans you put in it and how fast you have them set up to spin. The case itself has no sound proofing, so if you buy several loud fans and have them spin quickly, it will be loud, fewer/quieter fans spinning slower will be quieter. If noise is a concern I would suggest Noctua fans and an aftermarket cooler (this will support closed loop liquid if you're willing, otherwise check out a Hyper 212 Evo or similar). My setup with 4 Cooler Master fans (including the aforementioned Hyper 212 Evo) at idle (~60% fan spin) I would rate a 5-6, you only notice it if the room is quiet, but it is pretty obvious then. Going full tilt doesn't change it that much, maybe a 7, but with headphones on you won't notice it at all (you'll rarely run a decent desktop 100% during normal use anyway).
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I found the case fans to be relatively quiet. I have a Noctua NH-L9I CPU cooler and ASUS GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 video card as the only additional fan noise. Noise measures in the 25-26 dbA range under heavy load. I have no case vibration unless the Blu-ray drive is active; HD is solid state.
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Well, I have four fans cooling my system and when gaming I let them spin pretty fast. Don't really care about excessive sound because I'm wearing a headset most of the time. With stock fan/heat sink mine is very cool while idle, and have never seen it above 60C while playing some of the most demanding games. Yes the fan and heat sink could be better but for me it's fine.
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Update, I just tried it while playing the ps3 and muted it and there was definitely the same noise. Maybe a bad PSU? Any input would be very appreciated.
844690
There is a slight noise, but in my experience, it isn't louder than the system or CPUS fans, so it's not enought to worry about.
270400
I'm not sure. I do not believe it would be strictly necessary, but I would either disable the motherboard sound device in the BIOS or in Windows Device Manager.
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It won't hurt it but just know that it might throttle a little when under stress, and the game may drop in frame rate, I use MSI afterburner and a custom fan curve that is in no way silent but very cool
200717
The fans get pretty loud when gaming. They must be doing their job because I have not had an overheat problem yet. I wear head phones most of the time so the fan noise is no problem. I usually play with every thing maxed out as much as possible with no problems yet. The only thing I would recommend is get an MSI with a larger SSD than 128 Gig, it fills up very fast with todays games and it would be worth it. That is the only thing I wish I had done, other than that this thing is awesome.