Official x300/x305 Owner's Lounge

[demonikpanther]

Has anyone used a coppers him on the x305-q706? If so what size did you use? After doing my processor it looks like my heat sink is not making good contact with my processor or the chipset.

[demonikpanther]

So I called a local metal fabricator and gave him the following measurements. .59x.59x.05 (WxLxT). He cut me two pieces and since they were so small he didn't charge me anything. I put artic silver on the CPU and the GPU, both sides of the copper shim and on the heat sink itself. It fixed my reboot after qosmio splash screen after upgrading my CPU to P9600. At idle my temps are CPU 38/video cards 9800M GTS 50 and 46/ 9400M G 67.

[demonikpanther]

ok so after playing swtor the 9400m g was up to 72c/ and the 9800M gts was 53 and 46. Any idea why the onboard chip was so much hotter. Is that the actual chipset that is beside the cpu?

[judgment]

ok so after playing swtor the 9400m g was up to 72c/ and the 9800M gts was 53 and 46. Any idea why the onboard chip was so much hotter. Is that the actual chipset that is beside the cpu?

Well done mate! Always the onboard gpu get hot. up to 70c while gaming is absolutely fine. Even if u look at m17x r1 forums which had the same motherboard with the same 9400m onboard gpu when they had it turned on (for us there is no option in the bios to disable it -- toshiba's fault) they had similar temps with us for it. I think the reason is that it doesnt make good contact with the heatsink. Although u provided copper it might not provide same contact as if it was directly contacted to the heatsink, though thats a guess. Even for me when surfing the net its 55-60c and while gaming 60-68c and it has come from toshiba factory so has the original pads (just for ur reference!). Ps the 2nd gpu heating toshiba came back telling me that it has to be a heatsink malfunction and that they are going to change it for me as soon as I return them the laptop.

[demonikpanther]

What is max ram that can go into the x305-q706? I have read on here that it can have 8gb, but everywhere else I look it says 4gb.

[judgment]

What is max ram that can go into the x305-q706? I have read on here that it can have 8gb, but everywhere else I look it says 4gb.

Mine is x300-14x which has the same chipset and I have installed 8gb working perfectly well so it shouldn't be a problem.

[demonikpanther]

Thanks judgement. I was going to order the 8gb from newegg. Hope it works, there is another on here that has the same model as me and he has 8gb in his.

[judgment]

Thanks judgement. I was going to order the 8gb from newegg. Hope it works, there is another on here that has the same model as me and he has 8gb in his.

I think in the beginning the laptop supporter 4gb ram but then with the bios update it supported up to 8... Not sure though! Tried mine and worked! Bios 1.7 and 1.8 works with 8gb ram for me!

[demonikpanther]

What version driver is everyone using? I am having a hell of a time getting the drivers to work right? I was using the latest one, but when you I scan using the NVIDIA website it tells me my main card is 9400M G. I don't know if it is using the SLI ones.

[judgment]

What version driver is everyone using? I am having a hell of a time getting the drivers to work right? I was using the latest one, but when you I scan using the NVIDIA website it tells me my main card is 9400M G. I don't know if it is using the SLI ones.

I don't know about you but that's what I am getting from the autodetect thing
:
Product Current
Installed Driver Latest Driver
Update
GeForce 9400M G 270.61 Verde 296.10 Driver
Version: 296.10 WHQL
Release Date: 13.3.2012
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GeForce 9800M GTS (x2) 270.61 Verde 296.10 Driver
Version: 296.10 WHQL
Release Date: 13.3.2012
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So it is finding all 3 gpus.. I am using 270.61 cz it gives the highest fps at least for me. The latest I could use is 280.26 . I tried the 296.10 but it either installs and then after restart black screen or after clean installing it I do not have nvidia control panel (which sometimes I need to set a single gpu mode for certain games). If you want to check if your SLI works go into nvidia control panel on the toolbar on top select 3D settings and then select show sli visual indicator. Then run a game. If the SLI indicator shows up your SLI is working correctly. If not then try my current drivers 270.61.