Acer TimelineX 3820TG Owners Lounge. Info, benchmarks, tweaks, mods and upgrades

[Vaio Z Power]

Hendris no response yet of setfsb Creator?

[Zrix]

Hendrickson, is there any way to get the card to keep the new clock speeds? Mine keep resetting upon reboot.

Edit; And not only that. When switchable graphics is enabled in BIOS, the ATI card keeps resetting to x1 PCI-E. This is getting annoying.

[Hendrickson]

Hendris no response yet of setfsb Creator?

No, not yet we need to know the ICS clockgen chip id. Someone needs to open a unit up and find it. or find it somehow. I'm not opening mine up just yet....Maybe in a week or two. When I'm ready to Arctic sliver the CPU / GPU and do the backlit mod.

Hendrickson, is there any way to get the card to keep the new clock speeds? Mine keep resetting upon reboot.

Edit; And not only that. When switchable graphics is enabled in BIOS, the ATI card keeps resetting to x1 PCI-E. This is getting annoying.

Not that i know of, Its a pain too retype the clock speeds each time. We need to find a fix for this. ATI tray tools crashes. Rivatuner doesn't support the 5650

I'm on switchable 16x PCI-E here for me. I've had no issues.

[Late666]

u r every1s hero hendickson (; get the keyboard mod wrking and you 'll be god xD

I'm curious though, people keep talking about making a keyboard light mode..
How is that supposed to happen?

[Bronsky]

I'm curious though, people keep talking about making a keyboard light mode..
How is that supposed to happen?

There was a backlit keyboard that fit into the 3810T. It seems to fit the 3820T and can be jury rigged to work. It will require a mod.

Bronsky

[Vaio Z Power]

Hendricks in the videos have small freezes every so often for a second, I found this happens in some hdd because of APM feature, but ssd has no physical motor, I do not understand what is happening

thread 5740g
Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

Stuttering in games- game freezes every couple of minutes for a second or two? Here's the solution. Use this app and disable APM. This is a problem that occurs mainly or only on WD 500GB HDDs.

[zsero]

Guys, the most important question before buying this little one:
Are there any working fan control utilities for this model?
(or can we possibly ask devs of like SpeedFan to support our models?)

It would help for
- overclocking
- silence lovers

Anyway, if I feel right, this laptop will be a very popular model and even if there is no such utility now we can possibly see one soon. (Or that's what I hope).

[Late666]

There was a backlit keyboard that fit into the 3810T. It seems to fit the 3820T and can be jury rigged to work. It will require a mod.

Bronsky

Oh god! You solder it to the bluetooth port?? That's insane!
I would just like to say at this point-
omgwt f

[eduwp90]

Hey guys!
I've looking at this thread and "the official arrandale timeline..." for months and i recieved my 3820tg from cyberport weeks ago (just like you hendrickson, I'm spanish too).
I did a clean windows 7 install and i can't get the 10.5 drivers to work. Tried everythig you said. Gpu-z says that i've the catalyst a 10.5 but the atiumdag.dll (vga driver?) at 8.6, while the latest version is 8.7.
It also says that the ati has SDR instead of GDDR. Weird...
Bios version at 1.13... i'm doing a clean install and let's see if it works now...
Let me see if you need screenshots...

@hendrickson: nice work with the reviews

@Bronsky & company: be patient....

sorry for my english

Thank you guys

Ok i'm auto aswering myself.
I've done a clean windows install and I've managed to install the drivers. Everything it's ok now.

However, in switchable graphics mode, gpu-z says that the memory is SDR instead of GDDR and the memory bandwith is lower than normal. In discrete graphics mode everything it's ok. Can anybody confirm this?

Using latest ati drivers and bios version 1.13

EDIT:
I've seen that hendrickson is having the same "problem":
original screenshot from hendrickson:


Notice the memory type: SDR and the bandwith.

On discrete graphics mode these values are correct, correct me if i'm wrong

[Hendrickson]

EDIT:
I've seen that hendrickson is having the same "problem":
original screenshot from hendrickson:


Notice the memory type: SDR and the bandwidth.

On discrete graphics mode these values are correct, correct me if i'm wrong

Thats really nothing to worry about, its just a detection issue in GPU-Z of the ram type, if you look at my screenshot you'll see the PCI-E is x 16 @ x16 so thats fine. If it were to read @ x1 there would be an issue. Also my 3dmark06 of over 9000 confirms everything is ok.

Guys, the most important question before buying this little one:
Are there any working fan control utilities for this model?
(or can we possibly ask devs of like SpeedFan to support our models?)

It would help for
- overclocking
- silence lovers

Anyway, if I feel right, this laptop will be a very popular model and even if there is no such utility now we can possibly see one soon. (Or that's what I hope).

SpeedFan would be great for the 3820TG I remember back in the day my dell XPS M17 had such an app to control the fans it was great. Slience lovers will already liek this notebook as its pretty damn quite. My old EEE PC 1000HA makes more fan noise.