Dell Studio 1557

[OneCool]

I never see mine idle at 46c.... EVER!

49-56c idle and surfing.Watching online streaming video maybe 55-64c

Laptops are very sensitive to ambient temperature .... even more so than desktops from what I have seen.

[kizwan]

Ambient temperature is very hot over here during daytime. Outside temperature around ~32C to ~35C. CPU temperature can be between ~55C to ~69C. I noticed the temperature quickly goes down (average ~56C to ~57C), so the airflow keeping the CPU from overheating.

kizwan

[altoster]

hi evryone.I got my 1557 in nov for 61000 INR and right now i'm quite happy with it.

My WEI scores are :
Processor :7.2
ram :7.4
aero :4.9(it was 5 in vista)
Graphics :6.3
HDD :5.9

the system was quite slow when i recieved it so i did a clean install.
after the clean install the system used to become unresponsive at the welcome screen a few times in a week.
If anybody has that problem then its because of the faulty IDT driver that clashes with the fastaccess application or maybe some other application or driver.(Its still fauty BTW)
now the ati issue...the system did had some issues at first but after i modded the ati driver with catalyst 9.12(I know its older version) it was all right.
now i use the new ones provided by dell which i think is again 9.12 but with a new driver.the system hasn't crashed since a month.
i also noticed that the system perfoms much better when its cool.when i placed it in front of ac unit at my home the benchmarking scores in everest improved quite a bit.maybe its bcoz of better multilier due to low temp but it does helps in increasing ur scores or performance.
everythng above was with a02 & a03 bios.
Now after upgrading to a04 my scores in everest have dipped a bit,maybe its bcoz of summers and high room temp now a days,but has anyone else experinced it ?

srry for writing long(my first post).

hi kapi i think 7.2 is the highest cpu score i had ever seen for this laptop. mostly it is 7,6.9,and rarely 7.2.
was it due to the fact tht u were using it right in front of ac.
i uninstalled idt ,now i am using the drivers tht installed automatically by microsoft update.

[altoster]

has any one compared the performance, temperature, stability of core i7 720qm of dell studio 1557 to any other laptop with the same cpu ..

[kapilk007]

hi kapi i think 7.2 is the highest cpu score i had ever seen for this laptop. mostly it is 7,6.9,and rarely 7.2.
was it due to the fact tht u were using it right in front of ac.
i uninstalled idt ,now i am using the drivers tht installed automatically by microsoft update.

It maybe.The system performs much better when kept cool.I used to get 14k+ scores in memory read benchmark in everest before but now i can't get past 13500.similar sitituation in other benchmarks too.
maybe its bcoz of the a04 or maybe surrounding temps(which is high now a days) or maybe both(which i think is correct).

anybody facing performance degradation after applying a04 ?

[kapilk007]

Does anybody knows the terms and conditions of accidental damage cover coz one of my frnds was denied replacement for his inspiron when he spilled water on the laptop...

[aguelmann]

hello all..
any one know how to find out the power consumption of laptop.. i mean any software tht can monitor.

thank u

I use BatteryBar, but it only shows the battery consumption, obviously. Is this what you're looking for?

[jaime360]

I never see mine idle at 46c.... EVER!

49-56c idle and surfing.Watching online streaming video maybe 55-64c

Laptops are very sensitive to ambient temperature .... even more so than desktops from what I have seen.

My average temperature when iddle is about 49-50ºC. Same as yours. If I could keep the fan working it could be much lower...I just hate that I can´t control the fan. I bought a laptop cooler, but believe me, it doesn´t help too much. The only thing that it lowers is the HDD temperature. It doesn´t get higher than 41-42ºC. I think that this laptop is not that sensitive (when iddle or surfing) to outside temperatures, because I think It´s designed to keep a certain temperature depending on the cpu stress. On load I guess the laptop cooler helps a lot more.

If someone discovers how to change the fan settings, I would like to know it. I think that the BIOS A02 allowed to change it, but I don´t remember. Does someone know how to downgrade the bios? I would like to check, as I don´t care too much about the gpu performance. Probably the way I used to recover the bios also allows to downgrade it.

[altoster]

I use BatteryBar, but it only shows the battery consumption, obviously. Is this what you're looking for?

iam sorry what i meant power consumption was power in wattage.. (eg: 90w)
not battery consumption

thnks any way

[kapilk007]

here r the screenshots...
the first one is my wei.
second is memory read benchmark with a03 bios and the 3rd one is the same with a04 bios.
i know the multipliers in everest benchmarks r different but even with x20 i can't get past 14k moreover i don't think a difference of 133mhz in cpu clock will make such an impact coz this benchmark depends more on ram performance rather than the cpu.

One more thing
Does anybody gets a static noise from ur speakers when connected to the laptop with the charger plugged in ?