Fan running at annoying high volume low pitch RPM

[Navck]

Infact, I'm just using Firefox, and the fan is driving me nuts, but when I play Command and Conquers Generals (With volume off), my T43 isn't doing the annoying fan thing, any reason why?

[Inky]

Are you paying attention to the room temperature? I don't know where you're located, but where I am, the weather varies from one day to the next as we head into summer. One day it feels cool, the next day it's sweltering hot. As others have pointed out before, the ambient air temperature does affect the CPU so the fan will switch on more often in hot weather.

-Inky

[Navck]

True, the thing was it was pretty cold last night (For summer), but during the hotter day when I was playing Command and Conquers Generals (With friends), since one of them didn't bring their computer over, I let them borrow my TP to play CnC Generals multiplayer with me, and we barely noticed the fan... Thats when I asked everyone to turn the volume off... And the fan was spinning at VERY High rpm, but it wasn't an annoying WHIRRRRLLLLLLLLLLL with high bass in it. But instead a nicer high pitched, less loud noise.

[Inky]

Someone should create a game integrated with the Centrino Hardware Control utility. The "bad guys" would be these whirrring fans flying towards you and the images would correspond to the noise the laptop fan is actually making for real. The object of the game is to explode the fans into flying 3D fan fragments.

Naturally there would be a mean troll with a long white pointy beard defending the fan and the only way to get rid of him is by "freezing" him which slows him down so he can't move. The way to freeze him is by lowering the ThinkPad temperature, for instance by underclocking the CPU and GPU, or through the "brute force" approach of moving the ThinkPad to a cold air conditioned room. Well, that was fun.

-Inky

[Navck]

Hahaha, that would be pretty funny. "Brute force" apporach, xD.
But the low pitched sound is annoying... Currently its running at that high pitched noise due to the room temperature being high... Aahh so much better