Fans are passive cooling devices. Unless you are going to play Games in an industrial freezer with temp set below Zero you are not going to prevent the fans from coming on. (Overheating would mean the system Freezes and then Shuts off Power due to "thermal event")
There are systems that have Active Cooling that Are as Close To Silent as you can get but they accomplish this by using Liquid Cooling and Radiator and putting the many many many fans far away or in the next room from the PC. BOSE has a solution for this but it too is NOT FREE.
Significant noise reduction, with Bose® quality sound and a fit that stays comfortable for hours.
You need to run the fans fast otherwise it WILL overheat!
If noise is a concern, you best be selling your X51 and buying a full size tower that can handle heat quieter. There is really nothing else to say on the matter. The system is a little noisy when playing games.
i know it's been several months, but allow me to offer the following suggestion:
get yourself a program such as RealTemp, to monitor your CPU temperature. anything below about 100 degrees Celcius (212 F) isnt going to do any real harm. should you see it edging up towards the 90 degree mark, shut down your game and give it time to cool off, just to be safe
That's terrible advice. 100 degrees Celcius is the maximum level for most components. A graphics card usually runs hotter than a processor, and those have max temps around 97-100 celcius. That doesn't mean one should be running at those extreme temperatures. If you have a CPU that is constantly running at that high temperature, something is wrong. Even spiking temporarily to those levels indicates poor air flow and cooling. 100 F is a slightly different story.
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Fans are passive cooling devices. Unless you are going to play Games in an industrial freezer with temp set below Zero you are not going to prevent the fans from coming on. (Overheating would mean the system Freezes and then Shuts off Power due to "thermal event")
Significant noise reduction, with Bose® quality sound and a fit that stays comfortable for hours.
QuietComfort® 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones
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teeth_03
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March 21st, 2013 17:00
You need to run the fans fast otherwise it WILL overheat!
If noise is a concern, you best be selling your X51 and buying a full size tower that can handle heat quieter. There is really nothing else to say on the matter. The system is a little noisy when playing games.
Asmodeus451
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August 11th, 2013 11:00
i know it's been several months, but allow me to offer the following suggestion:
get yourself a program such as RealTemp, to monitor your CPU temperature. anything below about 100 degrees Celcius (212 F) isnt going to do any real harm. should you see it edging up towards the 90 degree mark, shut down your game and give it time to cool off, just to be safe
tkati97
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October 14th, 2013 13:00
That's terrible advice. 100 degrees Celcius is the maximum level for most components. A graphics card usually runs hotter than a processor, and those have max temps around 97-100 celcius. That doesn't mean one should be running at those extreme temperatures. If you have a CPU that is constantly running at that high temperature, something is wrong. Even spiking temporarily to those levels indicates poor air flow and cooling. 100 F is a slightly different story.