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PC fans get extremely loud as soon as a game starts

Desktop is about two years old, 3060 and a Ryzen 5. At idle it's quiet but the second I load anything the fans sound like a jet. I've cleaned the dust already. Is this a fan curve thing, or does it point to temps being too high?
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yvibe Oct 22, 2026
santosh_respawn
Some ramp-up is normal, the game loads the CPU and GPU and the fans react. The real question is how hot it's getting. Run a monitoring tool like HWMonitor while you play and watch the temps. If temps are fine, it's just an aggressive fan curve. You can soften it in the BIOS for case and CPU fans, and in MSI Afterburner for the GPU. Capping your frame rate helps a lot too, no point pushing 300 fps on a 60hz screen. If temps are high: dust first, compressed air on the heatsinks and filters. Then check the CPU cooler is seated properly, and on a machine a few years old, redo the thermal paste. On a laptop, prop up the back so the intakes can breathe.
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