Acer TimelineX 3830/4830/5830 T/G

[.j,hzxgjk.v.dnkvgb>D]

I bought a used 3830tg-6431 that came without a power plug and brick. The one I ordered off ebay came today and it only has two prongs. Does the original have two or three prongs?

And if it has three does it make a difference if the one I'm using only has two?

I also noticed it is 65W output vs. 90W...

What difference does that make?

[downloads]

If you have 3830TG you need 90W PSU.

[.j,hzxgjk.v.dnkvgb>D]

If you have 3830TG you need 90W PSU.

dang.

will the 65w charge it at all?
what if it's off?

TY

(i won't get lappy until this weekend.)

[downloads]

It will charge it but it won't be able to keep it on by itself when under load.

[Bronsky]

I have a 65 W that I have used to charge my 3820TG. As long as you use it for charging only, it is fine. If you try to use it on AC power, it will heat up to burning hot.

[idiotricky]

I would love to ask if 5830tg supports SATA3? Because I replaced my 750G HDD with a Crucial M4 128GB but it only operates at SATA2 mode only no matter what I try. Anybody has a clue?

[gruenebohne]

After some more fiddling with the BIOS i got the voltage of the GPU down to 0.85V. I don't know exactly what the problem was, though. I will try figuring that out. Also, I didn't do any stability tests yet.

[vacaloca]

After some more fiddling with the BIOS i got the voltage of the GPU down to 0.85V. I don't know exactly what the problem was, though. I will try figuring that out. Also, I didn't do any stability tests yet.

Great! If you can post the latest BIOS with that edit, I'd love to try it out. =) Did you have to rollback to a previous version in order for the new edited version to take? Post the modified one here when you're satisfied with the results!

[tri0xinn]

Just got my 3830tg on wednesday.. dropped a samsung 830 120gb SSD. This laptop is pretty killer so far.. every game I've thrown at it pretty much plays perfect.. Rage/SWTOR/Skyrim and a couple older games. I'm not sure if I've run into the throttling issue or not.. my 3830tg was advertised on amazon as refurb'd and it ended up coming with a faster i5 cpu.. the 2430 instead of the 2410.. is it possible in the refurb process it was replaced and some better cooling materials.. paste or fan was installed? I played swtor last night for about 3 hours everything on high except for shadows and it seemed to played super fluid other than maybe a few areas where the fps drops enough to notice. I did a 3dmark06 test and got 8900.. and a pcmark cpu and got ~1600. I think the only thing that is odd is loading levels in SWTOR seems to take longer than they should..

[ajnauron]

Just got my 3830tg on wednesday.. dropped a samsung 830 120gb SSD. This laptop is pretty killer so far.. every game I've thrown at it pretty much plays perfect.. Rage/SWTOR/Skyrim and a couple older games. I'm not sure if I've run into the throttling issue or not.. my 3830tg was advertised on amazon as refurb'd and it ended up coming with a faster i5 cpu.. the 2430 instead of the 2410.. is it possible in the refurb process it was replaced and some better cooling materials.. paste or fan was installed? I played swtor last night for about 3 hours everything on high except for shadows and it seemed to played super fluid other than maybe a few areas where the fps drops enough to notice. I did a 3dmark06 test and got 8900.. and a pcmark cpu and got ~1600. I think the only thing that is odd is loading levels in SWTOR seems to take longer than they should..

Throttling occurs when your GPU hits 75C at which point your CPU will be throttled to 1200MHz. The solution is to force a lower CPU multiplier in throttlestop like 17-18x in order to game stably without hitting your CPU's thermal ceiling of 85C(i3) or 100C(i5) at which point your system would automatically shut down.