Laptop CPU Fan??

XeliGamer · March 31, 2022

One thing I've noticed is that when I use an HDD in some laptops, normally when your CPU reaches a certain temperature, it will shut off and stay off until it reaches 55 or 60 degrees Celsius. However, when I use an SSD in some of the laptops, the CPU fan never actually shuts off; it stays on but you can barely hear or feel it, whereas when an HDD is installed, the fan actually shuts off. Why does it do that?

Chronified · March 31, 2022

Probably background process' lined up waiting for disk space/activity to free up, did you also notice the cpu usage slightly higher on the HDD??

I thought it was just me but when I first got an SSD in the early 2010s I could've sworn my CPU usage went down.

lafrente · March 31, 2022

39 minutes ago, Chronified said:

Probably background process' lined up waiting for disk space/activity to free up, did you also notice the cpu usage slightly higher on the HDD??

I thought it was just me but when I first got an SSD in the early 2010s I could've sworn my CPU usage went down.

He's saying the opposite tho. That's a general problem in this forum, people don't read the questions properly and I've made that mistake as well. Also careful with that OC in your sig. You might degrade the CPU.

To the OP, you probably kept HDD cleaner to make it faster since it's a very slow device, and that might have resulted in lower CPU usage. Or even simpler, your power options in HDD are different. It has to be software related.

XeliGamer · March 31, 2022

2 hours ago, Chronified said:

Probably background process' lined up waiting for disk space/activity to free up, did you also notice the cpu usage slightly higher on the HDD??

I thought it was just me but when I first got an SSD in the early 2010s I could've sworn my CPU usage went down.

Could be I have checked the CPU usage but it is low like 10 to 2% which doesn't make that much difference.

XeliGamer · March 31, 2022

1 hour ago, lafrente said:

He's saying the opposite tho. That's a general problem in this forum, people don't read the questions properly and I've made that mistake as well. Also careful with that OC in your sig. You might degrade the CPU.

To the OP, you probably kept HDD cleaner to make it faster since it's a very slow device, and that might have resulted in lower CPU usage. Or even simpler, your power options in HDD are different. It has to be software related.

A HDD cleaner not that I'm aware of but it could maybe be the power options the power mode is on "Balanced" on Windows 10