M4400 Bios A13 - hot hot hot!

Hi,

I upgraded my M4400 Bios from A06 to A13 when it came out a week or so ago and was initially really happy about the much lessened fan usage.

But since then my computer gets so hot that its impossible to keep it on my lap even after 15 minutes of use. That I could still handle but the keyboard and the palm rests get pretty hot and it feels very uncomfortable.

Anyone else notice this? Any recommended solutions?

Sami

 

Unless the fans vents are obstructed or the machine has not been cleaned, it is almost certainly due to the new BIOS - in which case the only viable option is to revert to the old BIOS.

 

didnt it raise the temp threshold? wouldnt that mean it would get hotter than it used to before the fans come on?

 

Yeah,I stuck pretty much with A02 until a couple of week's ago,A13 is little bit too relaxed on fan usage imo......an in between would be nice.

 

Weegie...speaking of hot, how do you like that x9100? would you say it's worth it?

 

Hey bud,overall it's been a waste of money,a few thing's you can notice it in,but no where near to the extent you would think 660mhz difference and lot's of $$$$ would make,thing's like cinebench show a huge improvement,but it just doesn't seem to equate into real life gain's with what I use it for.
solidwork's= can't tell the difference
cosmoswork's=can tell the difference,but not enough to justify the $
video encoding= ^^^^^^
games=RTS like empireTW can tell the diff with large unit number's,some crysis setting's can be raised,most game's the difference is barely detectable.[GPU limited]
General usage=no difference
Boot time=no difference
3dmark06=extra 400 point's roughly
Temps=plus 20degC on cpu max,plus 5 or 6 on the GPU,cpu idle's around 8degC higher.

Don't doubt for a second that someone who render's huge complicated scene's for a living that take 10 hour's would think it's totally worth it,the quad even more so,same goes for number crunching app's like cosmoswork's or video editor's,but my data set's are not big enough or used enough for the difference to be worthwhile in relation to the amount of money spent and extra heat generated....you know what I mean....wooohoo I saved 35 second's doing FEA on that model part.

I just had to find out for myself though,and find out I have,for some reason,I thought the whole system would feel snappier.....but sadly doesn't.
Don't know if I'll keep it or go back to the cooler P8600 tbh.....maybe I'm just not enough of an "enthusiast" to really see what's what. or maybe fast cpu upgrade's are the worst value,dollar to performance ratio,that 99.9% of people could waste their money on.

But to finish this sunday's sermon,I wish I'd spent the money on a fast SSD instead.


Sorry essami for derailing your thread yes I agree with you and have gone back to A02 for the same reason.

 

Thanks for the replies people! Whats your fave Bios? Is A12 ok?

Is going back to a previous version as simple as just flashing the bios with the desired version exe file?

 

i think its only worth if you wanna play GTA4 on mobile

 

I alway's seem to go back to my original A02,and yep,just double click the exe after download.

Does that game like a fast cpu? never tried it,it's not really my sort of thing.

From what I've seen so far,most game's don't benefit that much,most of them still seem bottlenecked by GPU,with the exception of RTS,but I've only tried empire total war so far,and that one doesn't even support multithreading....I might try a more scientific comparison with world in conflict using frap's between the P8600 and X9100 just for interest's sake.....it might surprise me.

 

GTA4 comes from PS3, so its a multicore-game. it loves CPU power, and loves many cores... PS3 got 7 cores... your opinion?