Acer TimelineX 3830/4830/5830 T/G

[Braide]

Hello guys!

I have some problems with my 3830TG.

I'm getting really bad performance in diablo 3 with low res and everything on off/low.
The laptop should be able to handle it well so I don't know what it is. I'm using throttlestop so throttling shouldn't be the problem.
Im thinking about doing a clean install of windows 7 and I'm wondering if I should flash bios aswell?

I haven't touched bios at all right now.

[downloads]

Leave BIOS as it is unless there were some interesting improvements in release notes.
BIOS does not affect performance so unless there are some serious fixes there's no point in flashing a new one.

[unclewebb]

Have you turned on the ThrottleStop logging feature yet while gaming? You need to create a record of your CPU performance and find out what the problem is. With the 3830TG, you usually have to decrease the multiplier and decrease performance so your laptop does not overheat and trigger throttling. There is nothing ThrottleStop can do if your laptop is over heating. For this laptop, you need to setup ThrottleStop so it prevents your laptop from overheating. Have you seen how others have ThrottleStop set up to work around this problem?

[ADloser]

Has anyone tried removing the metallic ACER decal from the front of the lid? Is it a sticker or is it actually part of the lid?

[Eason]

Has anyone tried removing the metallic ACER decal from the front of the lid? Is it a sticker or is it actually part of the lid?

It's part of the lid.

Just tried the unplug-restart technique to improve battery life- seems just as bad, if not worst. Expecting 2:50 on a full charge (panasonic battery). Guess it's just a POS.

[n0elia]

It's part of the lid.

Just tried the unplug-restart technique to improve battery life- seems just as bad, if not worst. Expecting 2:50 on a full charge (panasonic battery). Guess it's just a POS.

The Panasonic batteries in the Timeline machines are dying really fast. Mine has 30% wear

I don't think I'll buy Acer again when I upgrade

[CoLDxFiRE]

Has anyone tried removing the metallic ACER decal from the front of the lid? Is it a sticker or is it actually part of the lid?

I put a goofy OCZ sticker on it that says: "My SSD is faster than your HDD" xD

It's part of the lid.

Just tried the unplug-restart technique to improve battery life- seems just as bad, if not worst. Expecting 2:50 on a full charge (panasonic battery). Guess it's just a POS.

Do you have any acer software installed?
If you do, make sure that things like "Acer Conference Manager" are not running in the background. Also, make sure you don't have any uncessary processes running in the background.

After you reboot and Windows loads completely, put it to sleep and then wake it up. It might help and it might not :|

For the record, I have a panasonic battery too that started to wear very quickly at the beginning and went up to 20% wear. But then it started going down for some reason. Now it's been around 15% for a while and hasn't gone up any further.

[hoyhey]

I put a goofy OCZ sticker on it that says: "My SSD is faster than your HDD" xD



Do you have any acer software installed?
If you do, make sure that things like "Acer Conference Manager" are not running in the background. Also, make sure you don't have any uncessary processes running in the background.

After you reboot and Windows loads completely, put it to sleep and then wake it up. It might help and it might not :|

For the record, I have a panasonic battery too that started to wear very quickly at the beginning and went up to 20% wear. But then it started going down for some reason. Now it's been around 15% for a while and hasn't gone up any further.

Mine is Sanyo and the wear level is at 18.5% after 1 year (130 cycles) Not sure if this is normal or not but i kind of disappointed because 15% of battery roughly equals 1 hr of normal usage

[Domo_x9]

On my 3820TG after 1,5 year of use and a lot of using on a battery i have 17% wear level, but even when it was new it was like 3-4%.
As I am reading this topic from time to time I see that I've made a good decision to buy 3820 instead of 3830. Sometimes I don't understand Acer's decisions...

[Eason]

I put a goofy OCZ sticker on it that says: "My SSD is faster than your HDD" xD



Do you have any acer software installed?
If you do, make sure that things like "Acer Conference Manager" are not running in the background. Also, make sure you don't have any uncessary processes running in the background.

After you reboot and Windows loads completely, put it to sleep and then wake it up. It might help and it might not :|

For the record, I have a panasonic battery too that started to wear very quickly at the beginning and went up to 20% wear. But then it started going down for some reason. Now it's been around 15% for a while and hasn't gone up any further.

Yeah I have it installed. and sorry, I meant Sanyo. They replaced my panasonic one within the first month.