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Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by desdiv on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:33AM (#22265758)
I use a similar trick: I try to find a laptop that comes in both discrete-GPU and integrated-GPU configurations, and both version must share the identical chassis.

This way, when I buy the integrated version, I know the chassis has been designed with the heavier airflow of the discrete-GPU version in mind. If I'm lucky, my integrated-GPU config might even use the identical size heat-sinks as the discrete-GPU version.

Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by markus_zhang on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:18AM (#22266115)
That's smart! I'm going to try the trick next time~
Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by ChuckNorris89 on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:43AM (#22265836)
That's interesting. Any model you can recommend?
Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by dijit on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:46AM (#22266408)
Dell XPS 15's and Precisions 55xx's allow this trick.

You can buy them from the manufacturer with no discrete graphics cards.

I have one with a card which is physically turned off for the same trick.

Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by Mandelmus on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:02PM (#22270905)
Do you mean the XPS 13? I've never seen an XPS 15 in recent years without an NVIDIA card. The cheapest XPS 15 from 2019 that I can find still comes with the mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, as does my own XPS 15 9560 from 2017.
Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by dijit on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:14AM (#22289229)
I'm 2 days late! I'm so sorry!

If you go to dell.com and select one of the more entry level varients you can customise more things:

https://i.imgur.com/deQFdyU.png

Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by hetspookjee on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:34PM (#22269123)
In my experience the XPS 15 7390 with the 6c12t cpu with Windows had the fan running very often. Each time a single cpu thread ran at 100% the fan turned on.
Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by CaptainBern on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:34AM (#22266915)
The thinkpad T470/T480 dual-pipe dGPU heatsink is a drop-in replacement for the iGPU version, so if you buy the version without dGPU, you can pretty easily double your heatpipes quite cheap.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/9ohpyo/psa_t470t4...

Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by gambiting on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:50AM (#22266447)
Not OP, but from experience I know the Razer Blade Stealth 13 has the same cooling for both integrated GPU and dedicated gpu versions - and it's a very beefy cooling system as is, even with the dedicated gpu the system can stay at full load indefinitely without any issues.
Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by dman on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:57AM (#22265936)
What laptop are you using currently?
Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by oarsinsync on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:14AM (#22266707)
Does this trick apply to the 15" MacbookPro (2015)? If so, I guess I'm in luck!
Re:MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) by bluedino on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:56AM (#22267187)
They stopped doing that with the 15" MacBook Pro after 2015 :(