Acer Aspire 5930(G) owner thread

[Kallogan]

And on the other hand, do we still hear from him? i think he fried his lappy
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That seems to be the prevalent opinion

COD4 is playble at 620/1550/900, but above that it crashes, but no longer in to a black screen, i just freezes now. Like it used to, with my old VGA.
And that's probably down to my GPU still runnin' at 0.89v
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I have the same limit or so at 0,89V. I'll try with 900 mhz on the memory at this voltage just as a curiosity.
I don't know if it will work on many other games than COD4 though.

I prefer freezes to black screen Desactiving PhysX is a good idea when it comes to OC cause this thing is virtually incompatible with it. Besides, there are not so much games that use this crap.

[Kallogan]

I was in the spirit of not overclocking the memory anymore but i did forget how it boosts well performances. i've to admit that 7000 points at 0,89V and 71°C max is pleasant.




Will try this ingame to see if it's really beneficial. Cause i think we're really close to the 0,89V limits here. I desactivated PhysX too for the moment.

[Kallogan]

During RE5 bench, with 620/1550/900@0,89V i have the same framerate than with 700/1750/800@1V (and 5 degrees less ;-))

[$p4c3]

During RE5 bench, with 620/1550/900@0,89V i have the same framerate than with 700/1750/800@1V (and 5 degrees less ;-))

Yeah i know a thing or 2

Maybe we can go a little higher with the memory, but like i said before, 900Mhz is a good compromise..

And btw, 81c at stock clocks is normal and stable, if you have an OC at the same temp, it will never be stable, so what i want to say, the lower the temperture the higher you can go and the more stable it is..
Puting my AC at full blast today see if it make a difference, maybe even put my lappy in front of it, at least that was my dream last night

[Kallogan]

So 0,89V is just the temp of the core. The memory is powered with extra voltage i guess and is not affected by the undervolting. My memory doesn't handle more than 975 mhz anyway.

I finally succeded in selling back my crappy T5800 at about 40 euros. It wasn't that easy cause it's a old generation processor and people aren't really interested in it. A P8400 would be easier to sell back (about 80 euros)
Like that, my P9600 cost me about 150 euros or so.

[$p4c3]

So 0,89V is just the temp of the core. The memory is powered with extra voltage i guess and is not affected by the undervolting. My memory doesn't handle more than 975 mhz anyway.

On desktop VGA cards it is, so i think it's the same for a laptop.

Hmm, got stuck on the same speed as you, but then it's not effiecent anymore, 950Mhz seems to be working for me, in 3dmark and games, not all though Really get stuck on 624/1560/950@0.89v almost 6100 points at 1280x1024(19")

What's your max at 0.89v and 1v Kallogan? I'm thinking of re-flashing, you probably did it 10 times allready, but i'm not as crazy as you


P8700 is soooo cheap, and it's almost the same as p9500 except for the chache..
Almost thinking of buying it, but it will be stupid because i don't really gain anything.
P9600 is a far bigger step, and probably beter.
But i'll wait to the prices go down a bit, i still see them drop every month.
And theres a good chance that i buy a SSD first, they got even cheaper, and so incredibly fast

[Kallogan]

i have flashed my gpu bios probably 20 or 30 times since i have my lap ;-)
624/1560/950@0.89v same limit for me or so. At 1V, 700/1750/850 was the max
i successfully tested but maybe the memory can go higher .

As for processor, P8700 and P9500 are pretty identical. I mean 6MB cache instead of 3MB almost doesn't change anything in performances terms. Changing the processor isn't much of an improvement anyway. It was just fun to disassemble the lap.
There are only two games that are processor demanding for the moment GTA IV and World in conflict.

[Meaker]

In games the cache can make a decent bit of difference.

[Kallogan]

Yeah but i don't know if it's significant considering the price. If you have meaning numbers and statistics, i'm all hears. Mhz impacts more than cache for sure.

[$p4c3]

Hmm, seems that i have to buy a new battery first.. After a few times working almost normaly again, maybe a a hour less then when it was new.

Battery doubler could'nt fix it, tried no other programs like that, anyone?

Went straight for the extrem option, i left it in the freezer for an couple of hours and then tried charching it, because my battery is full in half an hour.
And when it's cold it takes longer.
Now it took him almost 3 hours what i'm used to, but i have to say it did'nt fix it, maybe improved it a little.

When i'm down to 0min/1% it keeps running for at least 20min, on everything low. i can use it a little over an hour now, but battery is very weak, 1 3D06 test(so not the full test) when it's full and it goes in to sleep, and i'm down to 1% again.

I used the f*cker at max 10 times, all i did wrong is leave it charged 100%, and then store it, i now know you have to store it at 40%, and now it's to late.
But it's still not right, i saw a graph, and if you store it for 1 year at 100% it loses 20% of it's capicity, and not more then 60%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it's not even a year gone, but yeah ofcource the six month are pased

Tried allot of things, anyone? and not the simple totaly discharge it and then charge it again sh*t

*In the hope that there's a battery doctor/expert reading this thread