Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

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Well.. then i think im gonna get the

# Intel i3 330M 2.13GHz
# 4GB DDR3 1066MHz, 320GB 5400 RPM HDD
# ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 512MB DDR3
# 15.6" WXGA 1366x768 LED CineCrystal,
# 2.8kg, 6-cell 4400mAh
# Windows 7 Home Premium

too bad the resolution isnt that good..
MSI GX623X got 1680x1050 whats wayy better for photoshop/gaming.

You will probably face trouble playing games at full details even at 1366x768 with HD5470, not to mention 1680x1050.
If you intend to play a lot I'd recommend HD5650- it's at least 50% faster.

[sykrot]

4670 is faster than 5470.

But 5650 is a little better than 4670. They seem to have same performance.. Damn.. hard choice .

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Well HD 5650 has 400 pipelines compared to 320 in HD 4670 but lower clocks.
Since mine is overclocked to 670MHz and HD 4670 is clocked at 675MHz 5650 should be mathematically 20% faster but you gotta include the benefit of DX11 and 40nm manufacturing process (compared to 55nm in HD 4670)

Still I don't know why are we talking about HD 4670
We were comparing HD 5470 to HD 5650 a minute ago.
Look at these game tests at the bottom of the page: HD 5470 and HD 5650
In case of 5650 disregard the slowest benchmark for every test as it is Sony notebook with GPU clocked at 450MHz instead of 550MHz

[sykrot]

That MSI laptop had 4670 ati, thats why i was talking about that... The price for MSI is also lower, but it has ddr2 not ddr3.

[hellfire88]

I just got my 5740G-6395 yesterday and set it up today. Everything looks fine but to my dismay, I seem to have an RMA-worthy issue.

Anyone else's 5740G have a constant hissing noise coming from the left channel when they plug in headphones to their headphone jack? Yes I plugged it into the black jack closest to the front of the laptop, and I tried 3 different headphones, all with the same result. The speakers sound fine (no hiss that I can hear) so it looks like I have a faulty headphone jack . Unless someone knows of some setting in the Realtek HD Control panel I need to change (note that everything is on stock settings as I just started using the laptop today).

EDIT: Actually, the hiss is coming out from both left and right sides. I just have to turn up the volume all the way to hear the hiss on the right side.

[bob.ross]

I sold my 6979 and now I need to do a system restore. Didn't make a restore disk, what can I do? lol anything?

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I just got my 5740G-6395 yesterday and set it up today. Everything looks fine but to my dismay, I seem to have an RMA-worthy issue.

Anyone else's 5740G have a constant hissing noise coming from the left channel when they plug in headphones to their headphone jack? Yes I plugged it into the black jack closest to the front of the laptop, and I tried 3 different headphones, all with the same result. The speakers sound fine (no hiss that I can hear) so it looks like I have a faulty headphone jack . Unless someone knows of some setting in the Realtek HD Control panel I need to change (note that everything is on stock settings as I just started using the laptop today).

EDIT: Actually, the hiss is coming out from both left and right sides. I just have to turn up the volume all the way to hear the hiss on the right side.

Try the most recent drivers from Realtek website before you decide to RMA.

I sold my 6979 and now I need to do a system restore. Didn't make a restore disk, what can I do? lol anything?

Disc 2 disc Recovery? Alt + F10 when Acer logo splash-screen shows at startup (during BIOS POST)

[hellfire88]

[QUOTE=downloads;6095798]Try the most recent drivers from Realtek website before you decide to RMA.

Yup, I just tried the latest Realtek HD Audio drivers (released 3/26/10 I believe) and same issue. I hear the hiss when I'm booting up the PC and in the BIOS too. It stops real quick when the laptop is booting up and its at that "Windows is Starting" splashscreen with the 4 windows dots. I guess its a hardware issue then and will need an RMA

[Philabong]

might wanna try at swapping your acer wireless card out for one from your other laptop and put it into there to ensure it isn't a card compatibility issue, and since they will be open throw the one in the acer onto the other laptop. restart and see if you get connectivity issues. i actually upgraded mine to an Intel 6200 wifi card. from there you can either look for a newer (or older) driver for the acer wifi, call tech support ask to replace the card, OR do what i did and upgrade the wifi to a 6200/5300 or 5100 for 40usd or less shipped on ebay

That's a good suggestion. I really like this machine and I think I have resolved my issue (workaround). I've setup my Linksys G router with DDWRT and converted from Client Bridge to Repeater Bridge. It was very very unstable until I applied Static IP settings to the network card. I now I can connect wirelessly and have full bars and download faster than the other laptop with the Intel card. On that note I think the other laptop is finally dead. How sweet of it to wait until my new one is 100% configured.

I've just ran a few rounds of Prime95 on top of 3dMark06 and all seems stable.

[Fairlyawesome]

Howdy, I have one of these laptops with it a ATI 5470 and a i3 CPU, and liking it lots so far very fast.

I have a question, though. Is there any way I can tweak the graphics a bit? I know of 'mobility modder', but apparently it doesn't support the 5xxx series of cards. Not really sure what I can do! I don't mind too much if I can't tweak the graphics, but it'd be nice :P

thanks!

Edit: Oh yeah I should mention, things like Rivatuner/ATI Tool don't tend to work properly (can't overclock), and ATI Tray Tool gave me a nice BSOD :P

Also I'm using the stock graphics drivers.