I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 7577 gaming laptop after dong alot of researching and watching reviews on gaming laptops in the 1000ish USD range. One of the major factors in deciding to go with Dell was the build quality and thermal design on the 7577. However, once I got in my hands and did some gaming with it I was slightly disappointed with it. And my biggest disappointment is the fan noise. Now I've already looked into it and my fans are working as intended. However they are annoyingly loud and the user has no way to customize the fan curve, or decide within a certain range how aggressive they want the fans to be. Most other manufacturers (Lenovo, MSI, Asus) Have some utility to customize fan speed in some way.

It seems the fan curve is set up to keep the thermals of the CPU and GPU to 60C. Upon monitoring the temperatures while gaming, as soon as the GPU or CPU pass 60C the fans go into max speed becoming whiny and loud. 60C is a good number, I personally like my components cool, but 65C and even 70C is not an unsafe number. And extending the temperature limit up by 5C would greatly reduce fan noise.

Also the fans take far to long to ramp down after even a short 30-60minute gaming session. Even setting the power setting to power saving, reducing the CPU to 800mhz and even after the CPU and GPU are sitting at low 40s the fans sit at max speed for 5-10 minutes. The chassis of my laptop is warm to the touch on the top and bottom but not uncomftably hot.

This seems to be Dell being overly cautious. And it would be nice to see some sort of customizability for the user. Having an enjoyable experience is a big part of gaming.