Surely they should either kick in sooner at that temp, or ramp up as temperature rises, thereby cooling the CPU/GPU before the package hits those high temps. For example, Package Temp0 will rise to 97-99 degrees under load, and stay there for 30 seconds, or more, before the fans kick in on full blast.

However, using Intel Power gadget to monitor CPU/GPU package temperature (as well as other things), the fans seem to come on and off almost at random, instead of coming on quickly when CPU/GPU temp becomes high, and ramping down when things have cooled down. This mode is not supported on battery power' This looks the closest to the Active cooling policy I have been used to using on other manufacturers laptops. The information for the Performance button states ' When Enabled, fan speed will increase to cool the device. The HP Command Center DOES have 'Thermal Profile' which lists HP Recommended/Performance/Comfort/Quiet buttons. Default is disabled, so the cooling policy takes control of when to turn on the fans. The only cooling option in the BIOS is 'Fan Always On' Enable/Disable.

Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale Systems.

Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.

DesignJet, Large Format Printers & Digital Press.

Printing Errors or Lights & Stuck Print Jobs.

Notebook Hardware and Upgrade Questions.

Battery: Here you can set levels for low, critical, and reserve battery, as well as set a low battery notification, and choose actions for low and critical battery levels.

Multimedia settings: Adjust multimedia settings for sharing media or playing videos.

Display: This includes the basic display settings and on top of that you can set the dimmed display brightness.

This option depends on your CPU and allows you to underclock your CPU.

Processor power management: Adjust the minimum or maximum processor state and system cooling policy.

PCI Express: Set the Link State Power Management to off, moderate or maximum power savings.

Power buttons and lid: Allows you to set custom lid close action, power button action, and sleep button action.

USB settings: Enable or disable USB selective suspend setting.

Sleep: Make your computer go to sleep after a set time, allow hybrid sleep, make it hibernate after a set time, and allow wake timers.

Wireless Adapter Settings: Choose between different power saving modes: Maximum Performance, Lower Power Saving, Medium Power Saving, or Maximum Power Saving.

Desktop background settings: Set the slide show to be available or paused.

Hard disk: Decide when to turn off the hard disk in battery or plugged in mode.

Balanced: Here you can set whether a password is required after wakeup when on battery or plugged in.

This is where customizing gets fun! You're presented with a host of options, some of which can completely change the behavior of your computer.

System cooling policy