Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

[savage1005]

i just bought one of these. is anyone worried about this model being discontinued? i thought it looked like a great deal and i hope i didnt buy a lemon of a computer.

[akuGama]

Ah..kk thats good to hear thanks man ....loving this acer btw

[EmAzY]

First of all I just want to say hi.
I must say main reason why I signed up to this forum is because of this notebook.

I'm sure we all agree that our notebook is the bomb
I recently ordered a ocz agile to compensate the 5400rpm HD.
I'll let you guys know how it goes with that over the weekend.

Quick question regarding the ddr3 memory on our notebook.
What's the speed on it? Also is the 4gb one or two stick?
Sorry but I haven't opened it yet to check.

What app do you guys use in windows to monitor temperature for the CPU and gpu?

Thanks in advance.

[savage1005]

i'll post some thoughts about my new laptop when it gets here! this is my first laptop i have owned.

[InstantOatmeal]

Originally Posted by EmAzY

First of all I just want to say hi.
I must say main reason why I signed up to this forum is because of this notebook.

I'm sure we all agree that our notebook is the bomb
I recently ordered a ocz agile to compensate the 5400rpm HD.
I'll let you guys know how it goes with that over the weekend.

Quick question regarding the ddr3 memory on our notebook.
What's the speed on it? Also is the 4gb one or two stick?
Sorry but I haven't opened it yet to check.

What app do you guys use in windows to monitor temperature for the CPU and gpu?

Thanks in advance.

So you give the 5740G a positive review too? What model?

[EmAzY]

Originally Posted by InstantOatmeal

So you give the 5740G a positive review too? What model?

Indeed I highly recommend it due to bang for the buck.

I got 5740g-6454...
Only thing that I have to upgrade was the hard drive to OCZ Agile 60gb.
I then used the internal 500gb as an external hard drive.

[downloads]

Originally Posted by EmAzY

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Quick question regarding the ddr3 memory on our notebook.
What's the speed on it? Also is the 4gb one or two stick?
Sorry but I haven't opened it yet to check.

What app do you guys use in windows to monitor temperature for the CPU and gpu?

It is 2GB + 2GB 1066MHz in my case Samsung made.
GPU temp can be monitored by GPU-Z, AMD GPU Clock Tool (linked in first post) or HW Monitor.
All available sensors including CPU, GPU, HDD and ACPI can be monitored by HW Monitor
The CPU itself is also detected and monitored properly by RealTemp

[mk1freak]

for some reason, every copy of speedfan i've been trying to download has been corrupted??
i've been trying to download it for the last few days :/ i'll try again when I get to work later. anyone have a copy they can upload? it is freeware. this prog also has a HDD monitor feature as part of it,

would be nice if we can find out if fan usage /speed can be controlled

[downloads]

I just downloaded on from the official site and it installs fine. It may be a problem on your end- try to disable AV software just for this download (from the official site)
Anyway- it doesn't seem to be able to control anything (no surprise here)
There is a way to change the threshold of when the fan kicks in and stops.
Two utilities to test regarding this are SMARTFAN and Acer Aspire One utility.

EDIT:
SMART FAN
Acer Aspire One Utility

I can't say these work because I didn't test them. All I know these used to work with 5739G but that doesn't mean anything.
Anyone willing to test? I'm going back to gami... I mean testing

[EmAzY]

Hey Guys,

I'm going to get my OCZ 60gb Agile today and I was wondering if there's any particular steps I need to do to install this puppy in my notebook.

Do you guys think 60gb is enough for windows 7 64bit home?
I'm only planning installing a few applications and maybe one or two game in the HD also.

Thanks,