
Is Microsoft Surface Pro 5 fanless?
Yes and no, it depends on which Surface Pro 5 model you have:
Passive cooling fanless Surface Pro 5 models
- Surface Pro 5 (Intel Core m3-7Y30)
- Surface Pro 5 (Intel Core i5-7300U)
- Surface Pro 5 LTE Advanced (Intel Core i5-7300U)
Active cooling Surface Pro 5 with a fan model
- Surface Pro 5 (Intel Core i7-7660U)

For more information, you might want to check out the “Surface Pro with LTE Advanced – An engineer’s tour” by Microsoft Mechanic here:
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That would explain why so many Surface Pro batteries and storage drives go bad. The heat from the processor flows directly into them.