Surface 3 is FANLESS!


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From the specs sheet:

The best of a tablet. With a fanless design and up to 10 hours of video-playback battery life, along with a beautiful screen, integrated kickstand and stereo speakers with Dolby

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Fanless?

 

What happens when I open WoW and Hearthstone at the same time in Windowed mode? Will it catch fire?

Maybe you missed the part where it says that it's using an Intel Atom processor lol

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Fantastic news! Nothing I hate more than fans in machines...

Different for a server or a high powered performance desktop, but most machines just don't need fans.

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What if I run Prime 95 on it for a little while.

What do you do on your machine that genuinely taxes it like Prime 95 does?
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What do you do on your machine that genuinely taxes it like Prime 95 does?

 

The point is, that's the ultimate test.

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Prime95 is a good stress test for a cooling system, especially if you're building your own setup, if you want power consumption and heat this test will certainly give you that.. I would think modern setups would shut down when they overheat but I've read horror stories too... kind of an unrealistic test for 99.9% of people though.  Most systems will never get that sort of workout even under a "normal" heavy load.. gaming, day-to-day work, compiling etc etc won't even get close usually.

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Well one thing I have an issue with my SP3 is the fact the fan is kinda loud versus my Macbook Air's which is a lot quieter.

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As soon as I read Intel Atom, I automatically believed the device would be fanless; it would have been quite a design failure if an Intel Atom based device actually needed fans to cool itself.

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I hope it catches fire. :p

Useless comment, why? You haven't even used it.

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the 'fire' are probably from customers feedback that said its have too weak processing powers ...

It should be more powerful than an iPad, which is exactly what they're targeting with this tablet.
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What if I run Prime 95 on it for a little while.

Don't be a pleb - use Intel Burn Mark or go home.
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Bunch of ignorance about Atoms in this thread. They're actually good processors since 2013, decently powerful for running Office apps and even light gaming (I was shocked to find Half Life 2 was downright smooth even with the graphics maxed out on my Asus T100)

 

Sure it's a 10 year old game but it ran it fine.  You can even play more modern games with the graphics turned down. 

My t100 is fanless, never overheats, plenty fast for what it's designed for. Don't expect to run BF4 with settings maxed out or handle any giant autodesk files, but for most uses it's just fine. 

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Bunch of ignorance about Atoms in this thread. They're actually good processors since 2013, decently powerful for running Office apps and even light gaming (I was shocked to find Half Life 2 was downright smooth even with the graphics maxed out on my Asus T100)

 

Sure it's a 10 year old game but it ran it fine.  You can even play more modern games with the graphics turned down. 

My t100 is fanless, never overheats, plenty fast for what it's designed for. Don't expect to run BF4 with settings maxed out or handle any giant autodesk files, but for most uses it's just fine. 

 

Thank you.  Very few actually need an i3/5/7 unlikely most on Neowin would have you believe.

The fact that Intel make server class atoms should tell you enough about their performance.

 

Also, fanless PCs rock and don't overheat... so much ignorance it is unbelievable.

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