Hello all,

I am a complete beginner to all things ubuntu.
I just installed in a triple boot setup this morning. within ubuntu studio, i decided to try out the fancy desktop effects. It seems like ever since then, no matter what setting the desktop effects are set at (currently at no effects) my fans are spinning at an unnecessarily high speed.

I of course do not know the rpms or anything like that as I haven the slightest idea of how I would check that. All I know is that when I am doing absolutely nothing, or maybe using firefox, the fans are whirring as if I were doing some 3d graphics acceleration or something.

any suggestions would be great.

many thanks in advance