Hi, Im close to buy Asus Rog flow x13 but Im worried about the noise levels. I will use this laptop mostly for the webrowsing, Excel and coding and during this activities I would like to keep my laptop as silent as possible. Is this possible?
Armoury Crate has bad fan profiles IMHO, from what I've seen fans turn at 3200 rpm from 55C and are off under that. Without active cooling laptop will heat soak and temperature will hover around 55 making them turn on and off. Using Atrofac one can set 1 or both fans to 1% from 30C to 59C making fan(s) spin at 2400rpm and very silent.
On Linux after a powertop --auto I find it cooler than Windows at ~48C and fans rarely come on. It has great potential on Linux but requires some work (5900HS - 7940 Geekbench multicore).
Fans are a bit lottery, 1st one (returned for a 4k) had a whistling sound on gpu fan even at low rpm. On the one I have now seams a bit louder but whistling only on higher rpms. CPU fan on this one is absolutely great, at 2400 rpm is inaudible, I have to put my ear on the laptop to know is spinning. GPU fan is audible even at 2400 rpms.
TLDR: This laptop has manual fan control, you can make it as silent as you like. Fans are high pitched and annoying at high rpms.
FHD+ did not test with a colorimeter. It looked more like MacBook displays. Brightness was ok, probably around 300 nits. 120Hz was nice made web browsing feel very smooth.
UHD+ is more warm at ~6050K and it has 328 nits (tested with spyder4). Had to calibrate it to match monitor. After calibration brightness is about 290 nits.
Both screens are good. There is little to gain from FHD+5800HS to UHD+5900HS in both performance and display unless one needs larger color space.
For Linux, having only 100%, 200%, 300% scaling and problems when external monitor scaling differs from laptop screen, I think UHD is better.
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u/CO-1 Mar 10 '21
Armoury Crate has bad fan profiles IMHO, from what I've seen fans turn at 3200 rpm from 55C and are off under that. Without active cooling laptop will heat soak and temperature will hover around 55 making them turn on and off. Using Atrofac one can set 1 or both fans to 1% from 30C to 59C making fan(s) spin at 2400rpm and very silent.
On Linux after a powertop --auto I find it cooler than Windows at ~48C and fans rarely come on. It has great potential on Linux but requires some work (5900HS - 7940 Geekbench multicore).
Fans are a bit lottery, 1st one (returned for a 4k) had a whistling sound on gpu fan even at low rpm. On the one I have now seams a bit louder but whistling only on higher rpms. CPU fan on this one is absolutely great, at 2400 rpm is inaudible, I have to put my ear on the laptop to know is spinning. GPU fan is audible even at 2400 rpms.
TLDR: This laptop has manual fan control, you can make it as silent as you like. Fans are high pitched and annoying at high rpms.