I know pre launch there were issues with the fan noise. I’ve just bought a 16 and it hits 71db when playing cyberpunk, and still 70 when playing rimworld. I’ve reached out to support and they didn’t have much to offer, (reset bios to defaults, disassemble and ensure nothing stuck in the fan.)

It’s virtually silent at idle and even when gaming on battery it’s not very loud. Has anyone figured out a better fan solution?

EDIT: I’ve discovered the project fw-fanctrl. I made a custom profile that doesn’t do much until the cpu hits higher temps then ramps to max much later. Will see how that works. I might post my profile if it works well enough.

EDIT2: It occurred to me, some of you all might be interested in what I did. Here is the step by step I think. I’m on Fedora 42 so you might need to do something more for your OS and I might have missed a step in my notes. I added a profile that doesn’t do much until 75C and ramps to 100% at 95C. I just played a game of Beyond all reason and I’m pretty sure it never got to 85C even.

First clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/TamtamHero/fw-fanctrl.git

cd fw-fanctrl

pip install build --user

sudo ./install.sh

Just a couple checks to see if it’s doing what we think:

systemctl status fw-fanctrl

Can leave this running to see any output:

journalctl -u fw-fanctrl -f

Now, find the fw-fanctrl config.json, mine was here in /etc

sudo nano /etc/fw-fanctrl/config.json

Add this section to the json (Be sure you’re comma’s and brackets match!)

"super-quiet": {
  "fanSpeedUpdateFrequency": 5,
  "movingAverageInterval": 40,
  "speedCurve": [
    { "temp": 0, "speed": 0 },
    { "temp": 55, "speed": 0 },
    { "temp": 65, "speed": 15 },
    { "temp": 75, "speed": 25 },
    { "temp": 85, "speed": 50 },
    { "temp": 95, "speed": 100 }
  ]
}

Then edit the defaultStrategy value to be super-quiet

"defaultStrategy": "super-quiet",

Restart using systemctl:

sudo systemctl restart fw-fanctrl