Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG Owners Lounge

[cruisx]

Maxed out on 1080p external monitor with oced cpu and gpu (3.2ghz cpu with throttle stop + 780/1000 on gpu)

How are you getting the cpu to 3.2 ghz with throttle stop?

[duykhang]

im using setpll to oc and throttlestop to force the frequency xD

[gopackers]

Hey guys, I'm having trouble with my laptop thinking there's a second monitor and therefore letting the mouse extend off to the right indefinitely. I recently had to install display drivers from this post since acer didn't feel like packing in the drivers for the 6550M when shipping my laptop. Soon as I installed them I noticed the extended display problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled and same result. I reformatted and this was the first thing I did.

Anybody else here have the same problem and have a solution?

[GamerzCreed]

Maxed out on 1080p external monitor with oced cpu and gpu (3.2ghz cpu with throttle stop + 780/1000 on gpu)

Question... How did you managed to overclock your gpu until that high ?

Is yours the HD 6550 or HD 5650 ?

[hihowareu]

Has anyone experienced overheating when doing non extensive tasks?

My CPU temps are 98C and my GPU is 88C just when I'm watching videos on my laptop....

[Edgar83]

Has anyone experienced overheating when doing non extensive tasks?

My CPU temps are 98C and my GPU is 88C just when I'm watching videos on my laptop....

There must be something wrong, open task manager and check cpu % occupation, it should NOT be anything near 100% if you are only watching a video.

If CPU occupation is normal, then you have something wrong in the heat dissipation compartment.

[EGCary]

finally updated catalyst drivers to 12.4.
set it to discreet first then updated. when i switched back to switchable though, aero effects have been disabled and i think something got messed up with the switching feature since its always on intel graphics now. have to switch to discreet mode in bios to actually switch gpus :/ any help?

[duykhang]

Question... How did you managed to overclock your gpu until that high ?

Is yours the HD 6550 or HD 5650 ?

6550 I think you can do a vbios mod for the 5650 to get higher voltages

Has anyone experienced overheating when doing non extensive tasks?

My CPU temps are 98C and my GPU is 88C just when I'm watching videos on my laptop....

You laptop needs a cleaning job those temps are very bad I'm idling at around 45c and 55c while browsing/watching videos

[ayjis]

For those in the know, are there reliable/easy-to-install drivers for the switchable graphics on this laptop for Linux?

I recently built a new home PC and my laptop is no longer my main gaming machine, so I'd like to throw a distro on there. Last time I tried Ubuntu the driver's or rather a script existed but I could never get it to work properly and had terrible battery life. Still get 4-6hrs in Windows. Ubuntu, at the time, got 2-3 max.

[inm8#2]

Something is very wrong with my 4820TG.

I ran chkdsk today. It took over 2 hours to complete.

Now my fan is running nonstop and CPU temps are high 60s or low 70s deg C with no programs running. GPU is around 55-60 deg C.

Why are my temps so high after running chkdsk? Before I had no temperature concerns whatsoever, and I was idling my CPU in the low 40s.