Laptop Fan Issues

[Santa_Dwarf]

First off, I have a Acer Aspire V3-571G with an Intel i5-3230m, 6gb of 1333 ram and a NVIDIA gt630m 2gb vram laptop.

My issue is that, although I shouldn't be expecting much, I'm not getting the right amount of fps out of it when the fan isn't even on.

When the fan does turn on, I get the right amount of fps. By example, in Arma 2 (what a perfect game to showcase performance!) I get 0-9 fps without the fan on. With the fan on, I get around 20. 

I don't know for sure, but I think this has something to do with Turbo Boost.

So theoreticaly, when the fan goes woosh, Turbo Boost is on.

I've had gaming sessions where the fan stood on for hours on, without overheating my laptop over the treshold I've seen it go.

As a final note, I've cleaned out my laptop a few times (courtesy of Linus' videos) and after cleaning it up, the fan started deciding when it turned on or not. Before that, it didn't. It was always on. Evidently, my laptop's performance was even worse back then.

 

My question to the LTTers is : 

Have you experienced this issue? What did you do to fix it?

Is it right to assume that when the fan turns on, it should indicate that the laptop is sensing too much heat, and wants to cool it? Because of the fact that it never performs well, the fan never turns on.

[overdose322dota]

First off, I have a Acer Aspire V3-571G with an Intel i5-3230m, 6gb of 1333 ram and a NVIDIA gt630m 2gb vram laptop.

My issue is that, although I shouldn't be expecting much, I'm not getting the right amount of fps out of it when the fan isn't even on.

When the fan does turn on, I get the right amount of fps. By example, in Arma 2 (what a perfect game to showcase performance!) I get 0-9 fps without the fan on. With the fan on, I get around 20. 

I don't know for sure, but I think this has something to do with Turbo Boost.

So theoreticaly, when the fan goes woosh, Turbo Boost is on.

I've had gaming sessions where the fan stood on for hours on, without overheating my laptop over the treshold I've seen it go.

As a final note, I've cleaned out my laptop a few times (courtesy of Linus' videos) and after cleaning it up, the fan started deciding when it turned on or not. Before that, it didn't. It was always on. Evidently, my laptop's performance was even worse back then.

 

My question to the LTTers is : 

Have you experienced this issue? What did you do to fix it?

Is it right to assume that when the fan turns on, it should indicate that the laptop is sensing too much heat, and wants to cool it? Because of the fact that it never performs well, the fan never turns on.

Dude i have shitty Acer's E1-531. Its overheating as hell. When i play DotA2 i got constant fps drops. Its almost on minimal settings and it goes around 45 then it drop to 23 fps, and he is doing it like every 5-10 sec. But when my laptop its cold i can max settings at get like 50 fps all the time. Acer is so bad at heating things

[EpicAdom]

Enter the BIOS of the laptop and see if there are any settings involving fan controlling. On my HP ENVY laptop I had the option in the BIOS to have the fan always on or have it on when necessary. I leave it set to turn on when needed and my laptop doesn't underclock when the fan isn't on.

[Santa_Dwarf]

Enter the BIOS of the laptop and see if there are any settings involving fan controlling. On my HP ENVY laptop I had the option in the BIOS to have the fan always on or have it on when necessary. I leave it set to turn on when needed and my laptop doesn't underclock when the fan isn't on.

Thank you. I checked, but there weren't.

[EpicAdom]

Thank you. I checked, but there weren't.

Were there any settings in the BIOS about CPU/GPU speeds?

[Santa_Dwarf]

Were there any settings in the BIOS about CPU/GPU speeds?

Nothing I could change.

[EpicAdom]

Nothing I could change.

Damn. That's rough.

 

I boycott Acer now because I had a horrible experience with one of their laptops. I bought an Acer Aspire laptop before I got the HP ENVY that I have now. It was defective and I had it replaced. The second one was also defective so I had that one replaced. The third one was defective too so I got a refund. It was really stupid. Three defective laptops. In a row.

[Santa_Dwarf]

I Macgyverd it. Cut the fan cover open, I can now turn the fan around till the pc takes over. Feels like I'm kick starting my laptop...