is save turn the fan off?

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    jimyjazz

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    The fan of my AA1 gets on my nerves sometimes, I was wondering if it is save to turn it off sometimes and if so for how long. I'm not able to check the temperature of my cpu, is it there anything that I can go by? thanks
     
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    No. This fan is there for some reason...
     
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    If you mean "Is it safe to turn off the fan?" then no, it's not.
     
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    thank you for the reply melhiore, and thank you for the English lesson dirk. Do you have any tips on how to reduce the noise? Cheers
     
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    There are already alot of FAN threads. Please do a search, and browse through the topics. Cheers.
     
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    I'll do that tamrac, chreers.
     
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    In my opinion turning off the fan is safe, there is a failsafe that will turn the fan back on if it gets too hot. But excessive heat may reduce the life of your hardware, and Li-ion batteries lose capacity quicker when they are warmer so letting your AA1 run hot with the battery in will likely reduce the life of your battery.

    I do turn my fan off from time to time, but only when it really annoys me, turning it off hasn't caused me any problems yet.

    However, bear in mind, if this was something Acer endorsed doing, they would have provided an easy method of fan control.
     
    retsaw, Nov 10, 2008
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