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September 4th, 2018 11:00

Dell G7 Fan Controller

Hi,

I bought a Dell G7 15 a while ago from Best Buy. I'd like to know if there are any options for fan control? I tried using the built-in utility in MSI afterburner, but for some reason it would not work. Also, is there a way to up the 30 FPS limit to 60? I don't think it should be locked to 30 FPS for every game, especially not old source games which can easily run on this modern hardware. If I can get rid of these two issues, this would be the perfect laptop for me. Thank you for your time.

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    Al3x0003

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    Posted October 25th, 2018 15:00

    There is one option for manually controlling the fan speed that I have found. And it is using a proram called Hwinfo. You just click on the fan in the lower right hand corner. Just make to change the fan re spin to 0 seconds,.
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    BladeEdge

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    Posted October 25th, 2018 19:00

    though I still cant get the CPU under 120F when idling. 

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    BladeEdge

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    Posted October 25th, 2018 19:00

    its unneeded there is a conflict of interest in the OS that I found and fixed. there is a preinstalled program from intel that monitors and controls the fan as well as what ever dell is doing to try and fix this. after un installing it the fans kicked right back on.

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    hoookie

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    Posted November 7th, 2018 09:00

    What exactly did you uninstall to make the fans kick on?

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    Caula

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    Posted November 7th, 2018 09:00

    Please let us know what you uninstalled in order to make it better.

    The forum is pretty much exploding with g4/g5/g7 fan control demands since everyone is having issues with them (the two links below are similar to this thread)

     

    https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Dell-G7-BIOS-1-4-1-and-1-5-0-cause-high-temp-CPU-throttling/td-p/6199523/highlight/false/page/4

    https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/DO-NOT-install-G5-5587-G7-7588-bios-1-41-URGENT-READ/td-p/6187315

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    EagleStrike33

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    Posted December 24th, 2019 11:00

    I don't know if you are still having a 30 fps issue, but if you plug your laptop into a wall. I have noticed, that the laptop disables the Nvidia gpu when on battery power in order to preserve battery life.

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    Kris5

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    Posted March 26th, 2020 09:00

    Alienware Command Centre allows you to control the Fan speed.

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    JamesAutoDude

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    Posted June 13th, 2020 01:00

    No need to uninstall anything. Just update everything. Get the app called Dell Update and install every update you can. Restart, open it again, install new updates. Keep doing this until it can't find any more updates. You should have like 2 BIOS updates and a few program updates.

     

    Also make sure that you have Dell Power Manager, in that application you can change the Thermal Management and get them to kick on sooner (I use Ultra Performance personally)

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    Alienguitar

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    Posted August 25th, 2021 14:00

    It appears to but does not.

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    xoxonull

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    Posted May 13th, 2022 07:00

    This could be due to a software bug. Did you try re-installing Afterburner? If not, then checkout the following references:

    1. https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards

    2. https://msiafterburner.info/

     

    If that doesn't work, then you can try MSI Dragon Center or MSI Center. That should definitely work. Furthermore, you can also try third-party software if you don't have MSI device.

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