u/AkwCMII

On the verge of bagging a new Legion pro 7 5080 locally for about 2.2k, not the best deal historically but still equivalent to a 2k retail due to not having to pay uncle sam his dues.

Main thing I'm curious about that I couldn't really do with the display model in-store is fan noise. I'm fully aware gaming laptops are not built to be quiet, but with a big chassis and cooling, what I'm looking for is "range", versatile enough to be quiet or loud when appropriate.

Basically, take league of legends for example, or emulating some old pokemon games. Very light GPU load. Under these "light but not idle" loads on quiet mode, are the fans comparable to a regular notebook's fan noise, or is the minimum fan noise still pretty audible from short distances away? Most reviews just do stress tests, but if I'm playing indie games on quiet mode, it won't need even that much power.

Now I do plan on actually letting it loose in the comfort of my own home, but was mostly curious what's the noise like if I'm giving it workloads that could be run quietly on most modern laptops. Understandably, the components aren't built for top efficiency, but the cooling is also proportionally better, so I'm curious what the resulting fan noise actually is

Got a P1 gen 7 with an rtx 3000 ada. Overall, it's almost everything that it was promised to be, although coming from the usual 14" thinkpad beater, the fans, while not annoying, were a bit surprising in how loud they were even when I wasn't really doing anything crazy

Haven't really gotten around to fully testing everything, but it's fairly quiet on efficiency mode, spins up a bit now and then but that seems par for the course. Latest drivers are installed, on W11 pro but it's still fresh so bloat isn't really cooking in the background yet.

Now if I'm doing just light video work, or spinning up a game like league of legends at a very modest 60fps, the fans are still fairly present even on efficiency mode. Not bothersome at all, speakers still completely audible at the lowest few volume ticks, but noticeable. For experiment's sake I ran a much more demanding title at pretty decent settings and 60fps for just a marginal step up in noise. Was monitoring temps with HWinfo, core temps and GPU temps all stay pretty reasonable, so the cooling is doing its job, I'm just surprised at how loud it is on an "easy" GPU load. Wondering if there's some nvidia settings to help or maybe some rogue sensor I'm not accounting for here, or if it's just normal behavior for any laptop having the GPU "on" to do anything.

Haven't worked on one since my toaster W530 back in the day, so perhaps my expectations weren't well adjusted