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I noticed my OLED's fan was running a lot more than it used to, even at lower wattage amounts (~18w). At first I just assumed it was dirty fan/thermal paste, but I cleaned my fan and repasted my APU and it didn't reallt change anything.

Since then I saw someone mention increased fan use since a recent update, so I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this as well?

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I worry this may be some form of confirmation bias or something. Because at that I was like "huh, I hadn't thought of that, but now that I do, I think you're right! It HAS been slightly more lately!"

Then I realized that I've been purposely holding off updates since August, so it can't be true haha.

I'm not saying the same happened to you, I'm just saying it happened to me, so it's possible it's happening to others ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ˜‚