Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

[mustangless]

Has anyone done video conversion with the gpu?

I am using ImTooVideo Conversion but see no changes using the gpu. I have acceleration enabled under the CCP. I enable amd app under the program but it takes just as long to convert without it enabled. According to hwinfo the gpu does no more work than just browsing the internet.

[Sir Ferdek]

Have u tried using the software for video conversion provided by ATI? AFAICR it's available by Catalyst Control Center...

EDIT: It actually WAS there, can't find it now xD. Probably it's now optional and downloadable from ATI's website.

[downloads]

The only software I've seen that works with ATI Stream (or whatever it's called) apart from the one that used to be in CCC is Cyberlink's MediaEspresso.

That said there are basically no config options on neither of those which makes it pretty useless compared to all those converters/encoders where you can set up everything manually.

[Pohmell]

Hey

Recently my windows was acting strange: constant lock-ups, no responding, freezes, restarts. Until i came to a point where out of nowhere winlogin became corrupt.
After countless reboots i got infinite loop of some strange recovery option which did not work. I low level formated HDD and put fresh windows back on.
Day later all previous symptoms happened again. I was seriously pissed because internet is essential atm for my work.

Long story short: My WD HDD had so many bad sectors, i used chkdsk many times but they kept coming back!!!!I was really angry and tierd of it. Then I took HDD out of my laptop, proceeded to turn it sideways, pronounced: ''C'est la Vié'' and threw it out of my flat. It satisfied me of knowing that it didn't survive the 7 floor fall. Then i went to a store and bought new 1TB samsung model with 3 year warranty

Now even the annoying spin up-down thing is gone yay!

Oh, and i'd like to share my awesome find. It's Driver Pack Solution (DriverPack Solution >> Best Drivers installation Software) - it's totally free! and there is over 40 drivers for this laptop all updated to the latest. I installed it and no driver conflicts what-so-ever.

Good luck and thanks for reading.

[kizwan]

Hi,

I have a question to anyone who use HDD caddy at the ODD connector. Can you check for me whether the HDD on the caddy is running at SATA II (3Gbit/s) or SATA I (1.5Gbit/s)?

[starsay]

Hi,

I have a question to anyone who use HDD caddy at the ODD connector. Can you check for me whether the HDD on the caddy is running at SATA II (3Gbit/s) or SATA I (1.5Gbit/s)?

I think ODD may not support 6Gbps speeds only sata I.

But unless I'm hugely mistaken, since SATA III is backwards compatible, they should have been able to connect it to the SATA III port and have it run, as always, at SATA I speeds.
sorry for my bad english...

[commanderkaran]

Check out this thread........

Overclocking the Radeon 6770m in the dv6t 61xx


MSI Afterburner is much better than the amd gpu clock tool...........Believe me....you will definitely get better performance and it also supports power play.............

[kizwan]

I think ODD may not support 6Gbps speeds

But unless I'm hugely mistaken, since SATA III is backwards compatible, they should have been able to connect it to the SATA II port and have it run, as always, at SATA I speeds.

Yes, you're correct. If SATA 6Gbit/s drive connected to SATA II (3Gbit/s) controller, it will work at backward-compatibility which is at SATA II (3Gbit/s) speed. The same thing happen to SATA II (3Gbit/s) drive when connected to SATA I (1.5Gbit/s).

However, this is not what I'm referring to in my previous post. Aspire 5740G have SATA II controller & I'm interested with the speed the HDD on the caddy is running at. On some notebook, HDD on the caddy is running at SATA I speed.

[starsay]

Yes, you're correct. If SATA 6Gbit/s drive connected to SATA II (3Gbit/s) controller, it will work at backward-compatibility which is at SATA II (3Gbit/s) speed. The same thing happen to SATA II (3Gbit/s) drive when connected to SATA I (1.5Gbit/s).

However, this is not what I'm referring to in my previous post. Aspire 5740G have SATA II controller & I'm interested with the speed the HDD on the caddy is running at. On some notebook, HDD on the caddy is running at SATA I speed.

Ok, i dont know sure...I have a hdd wd blackscorpio 500 GB on the caddy is running with HD TUNE PRO 4.61 benchmark: maxmium 111 MB/s minimum 86 MB/s average 89 MB/s...
I belive is running at sata I speed...

[kizwan]

To know for sure, I think you can check the speed in AIDA64 - in Storage --> ATA.