u/Abyssalian

Galaxy book 6 Ultra X7: Fan cycles on and off at idle. Normal, or should I worry?

I've been a desktop person basically my whole life, so this is my first real laptop and I don't have a baseline for what's normal.

When the room is completely quiet and the machine is sitting idle, I notice the fan is fully off, total silence. Then it spins up briefly, runs for a bit, stops again, and repeats every few minutes, sometimes also every few seconds. It's never really loud, and it's not constant, but the on/off pattern is noticeable once you're aware of it.

I also can't read fan RPM in any monitoring software I've tried, which makes it harder to tell what's actually going on. CPU temps look fine to me.

So: is intermittent fan cycling at idle just how modern thin laptops behave, or is this a sign of something I should look into? And does anyone else with a Panther Lake / Core Ultra X7 machine get fan speed to show up in HWiNFO or similar?

Edit: I add an audio of what I am experiencing. It is still very quiet but you may hear what I mean in the very beginning, and then after ~35 seconds of silence it starts again with an on/off cycle or burst. It is really annoying that Samsung does not allow to change the fan curve in the BIOS.

https://reddit.com/link/1vk2to7/video/8yrwpm1jemih1/player

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u/Abyssalian — 11 days ago