Acer Aspire 7750g Owner's Thread

[ex.treme]

Tried only Msi after Burner and show percentage with no effect rpm change.
Rpm detect with my ears ;-)

[ehancock]

I just ordered new laptops for my wife and me. Ended up finding this deal here:

Acer Aspire 7750 AS7750-6458 17.3" Notebook LX.RNA02.008

That's a pretty good deal for an i5-2430M and 6850M. Already have more ram and SSDs from our current laptops that i can swap over to these ones. Should be here friday!

[popeye1128]

I just ordered new laptops for my wife and me. Ended up finding this deal here:

Acer Aspire 7750 AS7750-6458 17.3" Notebook LX.RNA02.008

That's a pretty good deal for an i5-2430M and 6850M. Already have more ram and SSDs from our current laptops that i can swap over to these ones. Should be here friday!

That is a very good deal with free shipping! I'd snatch it up myself if I didn't already have the 6669 model.
You may want to consider installing the modded BIOS if you want true control of which GPU you want to use at any given time.

[ehancock]

I'll let you know how it performs when i get them tomorrow. Hopefully it's not disappointing lol... Replacing my Asus K53TA with an A6-3400M, 6650M combo.

By default these laptops come with the integrated intel video disabled "permanently" correct? The modded BIOS allows you to enable the integrated video and switch between them on the fly?

What are video driver are you guys using? What's the best?

[NeoandGeo]

Yours may allow you to disable the integrated graphics permanently. My AS7750G-9810 does not allow it, even when you force it to use the PEG always, it will still switch when it wants to.

[ehancock]

Well it should be here today. I'll let everyone know how it is configured. I wasn't too impressed with the switchable graphics on my current ASUS. It allows you to crossfire the IGP on the CPU with the dedicated 6650M or switch between one or the other. While the theory is great, execution was really poor. I would almost rather have the IGP be disabled to prevent crappy driver and configuration problems.

[ehancock]

Looks like the IGP is disabled "permanently", i don't know that it's worth it for me to even explore modded bios to enable this as i will probably never be taking this laptop with me anywhere.

This particular 7750G only has two memory slots for a total of 8GB instead of the four slots for a total of 16GB that some came with

With 8GB of ram and a sata2 SSD i got these scores with WEI:
cpu 7.0
ram 7.4
both graphics 6.9
storage 6.7

Not "awesome" but also not terribad. I realize WEI is not a very good determination of performance at all, but i figured i would let you guys know just so you can see how others may compare.

[captainkronos]

Ok ehancock, you have my attention LOL. I really need to know what the SSD speeds are since we have 6gbps on our modded bios with the ASUS. Also, the stock dual i5 on this is way better than our quad? Obvs i7 is an easy upgrade.

[ehancock]

From what I've read this laptop should support Sata 6Gb/s but i don't have a Sata 6Gb/s drive that i can test it with. Acer BIOS are notoriously bare bones so there's nothing in there that says anything about it. I have an older Kingston sata2 SSD that really isn't a "great" drive installed and everything is instant with it.

The i5 benchmarks much better than the A6 in our Asus, but obviously that's without an OC. From my experience so far, this laptop is performs much better than my Asus ever did. The only game i play on a regular basis and can compare the two laptops is CS:Source.

Asus at 1366x768 on mostly mid/high settings, NO AA, NO Anisotrophic i would be ~130-150fps. If there was a lot going on it would drop down to 50fps. If there was nothing going on it could jump to 200+

This laptop at 1600x900 with every setting as high as possible i didn't see it drop below 170fps. It's almost always 190-220. If there's nothing going on it's higher.

Sorry i don't have a ton of time to play games so i don't have any better comparisons. I'll probably try out some bf3 soon here.

Oh, the 17" screen at 1600x900 is much more crisp than the 1366x768 on the Asus.

[captainkronos]

From what I've read this laptop should support Sata 6Gb/s but i don't have a Sata 6Gb/s drive that i can test it with. Acer BIOS are notoriously bare bones so there's nothing in there that says anything about it. I have an older Kingston sata2 SSD that really isn't a "great" drive installed and everything is instant with it.

The i5 benchmarks much better than the A6 in our Asus, but obviously that's without an OC. From my experience so far, this laptop is performs much better than my Asus ever did. The only game i play on a regular basis and can compare the two laptops is CS:Source.

Asus at 1366x768 on mostly mid/high settings, NO AA, NO Anisotrophic i would be ~130-150fps. If there was a lot going on it would drop down to 50fps. If there was nothing going on it could jump to 200+

This laptop at 1600x900 with every setting as high as possible i didn't see it drop below 170fps. It's almost always 190-220. If there's nothing going on it's higher.

Sorry i don't have a ton of time to play games so i don't have any better comparisons. I'll probably try out some bf3 soon here.

Oh, the 17" screen at 1600x900 is much more crisp than the 1366x768 on the Asus.

Well it seems as if BF3 should run a lot better too from the youtube videos I've seen. That's my main game & is pretty much my benchmark at this point LOL.

But yeah, really need confirm by someone on here for the 6gbps.. I would most likely pull the trigger at that point.

I'm impressed that it has room for 2 SSDs w/o taking out the optical, but I might take it out anyway to rock a third SSD since I only have two 256's right now & def need more room.

If any of you do have a 6gbps drive, I need to know if it's 6gbps in the main bay & the secondary bay. & if by some chance there's a caddy for the optical bay & you already have it.. I'd like to know the speeds there too pleeeeease!