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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.

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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.
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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

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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.
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