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ilovethemonkeyhead

10:21 AM on 13 August, 2009

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i think the fan loudness is to do with a rogue bios setting somehow. i recall having an advent t11 that spent the first year of its life in silence. then, after taking it to a free tuneup (will never do that again), it came back very noisy. originally the fan throttled back and only went loud after a certain (rather high) temperature. but that setting seems to have disappeared. couldn't find it again.

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Ardjuna

12:12 PM on 13 August, 2009

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@ilovethemonkeyhead:

We checked the BIOS to see if we could alter the fan settings but no luck - and the system should come preconfigured at its most silent anyway, since many consumers who buy this kind of PC won't even know what a BIOS is.

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Martin Daler

9:11 AM on 15 August, 2009

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a bit of a tangent...

my Dell desktop Studio XPS - recently purchased - sounded like someone doing the hoovering with a full bag, I gave Dell grief, they swapped out the rear fan etc, all to no avail. By and by I chanced upon a BIOS update on the Dell support page, guess what, they have remapped the fan, its much quieter now.

(at least your readers know what the BIOS is!)

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Ardjuna

10:28 AM on 21 August, 2009

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@Martin Daler:

Thanks for the interesting and useful info. You may want to add this to the enthusiastic discussion surrounding the Studio XPS Desktop (http://www.trustedreviews.com/pcs/review/2009/01/22/Dell-Studio-XPS-Desktop-PC/p1).

(We would definitely hope so ;)

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Advent's PQG9002 should be a really silent PC, but due to some unfortunate choices it's one of the noisiest machines around. Considering it's also not exactly well-built and the competition offers more for less, there's very little to like here.

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13 August 2009

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