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Thanks, I’m quite happy with my work Thinkpad E14 Gen4 with a i5 12500, although that also doesn’t get completely silent, even though the fans are much more quiet than the Schenkers we had, especially in Idle.

The Problem with all the Reviews I can find for pretty much all Notebooks, that they don’t really state how silent they really get, i.e. if the fans turn off at all. It seems that this is not a very common issue for most people.

Right now I’m eying the Razer Blade 14 or the Asus Zephyrus G14, both using the Ryzen 9 7940HS, so if anyone has some experience with the fan noise of these or similar Notebooks (especially in a little bit tuned Linux environment), I would really like to hear some opinions - in another Comment we already discussed, that the G14 does not seem to get completely silent.

I have made some good experience in this regard with my Blade 15 2018 which is completely silent, so it’s hard for me to swap to device that isn’t.

Ok thanks. That doesn’t sound that good.

An M1 is not really an option for me, due to several reasons, work related and ideologically, I really like to have control over my system, I’m only using Windows for gaming until Linux solutions are good enough - they may be already with Proton but I have to find some time to give them a try. There don’t seem to be that much other options in the mobile gaming market. I may try the Blade 14 (or maybe even the G14, we’ll see) it but if it doesn’t work the way I want, I’m probably not upgrading from my old Blade 15 for now (in Linux I got it down to about 5-10W while coding with medium brightness, in Windows I got it to be silent, no clue about energy usage itself). Maybe there will be some breakthroughs in the next years.

Yah, makes for a great slideshow, found out the hard way too.

For our old devices we found out, that around 90% maximum CPU disables the Intel Turbo Boost (on Linux you can just disable it). It doesn’t make any notable difference for browsing, etc.

The new CPUs however didn’t like that at all (there’s some guide in the Windows forum how to throttle the performance cores via CLI, as the graphical Windows Energy Settings will just throttle the Efficiency Cores.).

Hi, I’m the second person mentioned in the post.

Yeah, ARM CPUs are a completely different beast, I hope that it will find some ground in the Linux/Windows space too (or maybe Risc-V). Not much hope for games though, at least not in the near future.

I’m eyeing the Razer Blade 14, which has pretty much the same hardware as your G14, so may I ask some questions? More than half of the time I’m using the Notebook, I’m programming and I’m quite sensitive when it comes to noise, so the question: do the fans of your G14 ever turn off in idle and low workloads? My current Blade 15 2018 does so and I don’t think I can compromise on that behavior but it’s slowly starting to struggle with games. (I’m generally more willing to compromise on top-end performance than noise on low workloads)