Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

overlocking i3-330M (max FSB=155MHz) on Acer Aspire 5740G-333G32Mn

 

Thanks for the fast answer...
I have some problem with all the two procedure...
I've downloaded the latest version shareware of SetFSB, i request the serial key and i try to set my BUS value to 139 by small steps, but if i set the bus on 139.2, the computer freeze immediatly... Why? Do you have any solution?
For the GPU, i try to make a search on google, and the AMD GPU Clock Tool that i downloaded don't work on my pc... Now i try with the version that SUSTMI link now...

 

Why no one told me the CPU OC works?
You people are evil
Anyone checked if it works with Core i5?
(just asking I'm not interested in CPU OC)

 

The link version of AMD GPU Clock Tool now work on my pc...

Two question...

1)With AMD GPU Clock Tool can i decide the fan speed of my ATI RADEON HD 5470? Do a program exist to manage the fan speed?

2)Someone, like Vovik MC, can try to explain me how set my BUS on 155 MHz with SETFSB? What particular procedure have i to follow to reach those results??? I try increasing BUS by small steps, but my PC freeze when i set 139,2 MHz...

 

Nope- fan speed can't be changed plus it's not a fan for HD5470- there's one system fan cooling a radiator that is used by both CPU and GPU.
To change the speed or temperatures that trigger certain RPM you'd have to modify BIOS.

 

The clock generator for the 5740G was added on 1/22/2011.

 

alex_27_91, And I think, as I have a GPU accelerated only up to 705 \ 955, while the other 800 \ 1000. It all depends on the specific model laptop. I think in your case, you can play with memory: try with a strap to disperse, to change the slots ... Your card is being chased by bad-sense from overclocking will not.

 

I'm really interested about OCing the cpu.
Downloads, could you please make a guide or tell us how to do?
And what about overvolting the GPU? How's that going?
Thanks.

 

As for OCing the CPU- sorry I can't.
I didn't pay for SetFSB nor do I intend to so I can't test that.

Weird things follow- if you take a look at 3820TG owners lounge- these guys have managed to OC the CPU with no problems however they get lower FPS while gaming with OCed CPU than without it.
It's not a single case so it seems to be a general issue although it may be 3820TG specific.

From my point of view OCing the CPU is useless because in no game (including GTA IV) had I achieved 100% CPU load so that's not limiting me.

Anyway- if someone is willing to write a small guide for this with screenshots and a short explanation- please do it in a separate post so it can be later linked to. If no one is interested- head to 3820TG lounge and try to find relevant posts there (9K posts in a thread )

GPU overvolting is a bit risky and we have no one willing to test such modified BIOS. My best estimate is June as I work on this laptop and I got so much work to do I'm not gonna be able to clean my desk before June arrives.
I can't brick my laptop before I'm done with all those projects (8 of them )

 

Thanks downloads, I do understand you, paying for an overclocking program is quite rubbish.
As for the modded bios take your time, you've been extremely helpful with your guides\tests ecc..

I've got another question regarding catalyst's drivers, do you recommend installing the 11.11a hotfix?
Thanks again and have some +rep!

 

If I remember correctly official Cats 11.1 are to be released on Wednesday.
Apparently a lot of goodies there including MLAA support for HD5xxx and improved performance.
I'm not quite sure if you meant 10.11a or 11.1 but I'd wait till Wednesday anyhow.

 

Lol I got confused. I was referring to the 10.11a, but yeah, I'll wait for the new ones then
I really hope about improved performance though and MLAA too.

 

which is a good notebook cooler for this notebook ??

 

Thanks for your answer, but my english is ridiculous and i can't understand what you wanna say... Can you repeat with other words " I think in your case, you can play with memory: try with a strap to disperse, to change the slots ... Your card is being chased by bad-sense from overclocking will not."...
Thanks and sorry for the annoyance...

 

Sorry if this has come up again but how can i update the bios usinng the modded for caddy bios some posts earlier. Using the stock 1.16 i understand that i have to rename the file but i did not managed it. Also just to be sure can i update it through windows 7 ??

Sorry if this has come up or it is too simple for you.
Regards

 

This isn't really on topic, but...

My biggest gripe about this laptop is the low resolution of the display. If I could change anything, I would get a larger resolution screen. But for now, I found this nifty little hack (for windows. I'll try to reproduce it in Ubuntu and report later.)

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
Set it to 4c (76 decimal) and you will get a little bit of more "resolution" due to windows automatically adjusting all fonts to be about 80% their normal size.

I know it's not a real "fix" but it helps a little.

 

I have the exact same problem as you did (been following it) and Acer support is being a biatch. I would like to talk to you a bit more if you would be kind to answer me some simple questions (add me on msn or mail me to [email protected] or leave a contact - can't pm you here).

I would post my experience here hoping it helps some1 out.

On a side note, i had a 5740g with the i7 and was a really happy user!

 

can anyone with a valid setfsb export the pll, to import on early version

 

cyberbit, аlready done so - nothing happened. The program does not work properly with the import - hangs.
alex_27_91, try moving the memory modules in some places or experiment with only one module.

 

so i must buy setfsb because oc works with last version

 

hello to everybody!!how you all doing?

to the subject. i had my 5740g sitting on the desk, and a stupid friend of mine threw it to the floor (by mistake of course). only a little piece of plastic broke from the front hopefully.but is there any program that checks if it is working fine in the inside ,if you understand what i mean?
sorry if some of you you think that my question is silly,but i really don't know.
thanx in advance

cheers from greece

 

My guess is it may have damaged your hard drive. programs like this will check the health of your hdd. Acronis corporate backup solutions: backup or clone hard drive on servers and workstations
if you want something to check all your internal devices try this:
CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting

 

@ypnos
Post what's inside SMART tab in HDTune.
Software that gives you green/yellow/red is not good enough as it ignore certain parameters until they have reached the threshold.

 

downloads, i downloaded hdtune (not hdtunepro) and there is no smart tab.there benchmark,info,health and error scan tab. which one do you need me to post?

 

Yeh- the Health tab is for SMART status.

 

well, in the health tab,status is ok in all of them (no colours) ,and health status is a green ok (check the screenshot), this means everything is working fine i guess???
thanx again for helping, i am 27 and when i saw it falling i was about to start crying like a baby!

 

Yes- it's perfect. I don't mean within threshold or anything like that- perfect.
It's remotely possible that something may be wrong without SMART showing it but you would hear a whining sound which you haven't heard before.

Just to be on the safe side monitor SMART status for a week or so.
Since you've uploaded this screenshot you have something to compare it- if anything important changes you can start panicking But it most likely won’t.

 

@downloads

thanx friend!!! nice avatar by the way

cheeers

 

Does anyone know if this hdd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-136-555&SortField=0&SummaryType=1&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Keywords=%28keywords%29&Page=1#scrollFullInfo (Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX 600GB 10000) is compatible with the default hdd internal slot. I'm curious because i know that sometimes there is a 500gb limit on some bays and this is 600gb. Also thats the second problem I ordered this optical bay for the 2nd hdd Discount 2nd SATA Hard Drive Bay Caddy For HP/Acer/BenQ Laptop and it appears that for sure it has a 500gb cap. I'm wanting to get 2 new hdd's. They dont necessarily have to be the same hdd's but I have been debating between the 600GB VelociRaptor, the 500gb Seagate Momentus XT or 500gb seagate 7200.4. Anyone have any suggestions. I'm worried that the optical drive caddy wont be able to perform the proper cooling or stability of the vibrations.. i dont know if these are legitimate concerns.. This caddy looks to me like more of a quality one unfortunately i didnt see this before i bought the other one 2nd Hard Drive Caddy Adapter TS-L633 TS-L633B TS-L633C

I'm thinking of putting the veliciraptor in the main slot where i would run the os and the seagate 7200.4 in the 2nd optical bay which would be for pro tools and backing up media, etc.

 

Hello,

My HDD's temperature (WD640) often hits 45 C. I've noticed that usually happens when I'm watching a movie. Do you have any issue like this?

 

Hi,
Is it possible that 'Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR' could be changed to 'Bluetooth 3.0' just by updating the drivers. The latest drivers, i.e. 6.3.0.6700 seems to do so. Can anybody having BT confirm this?

 

Anybody?

 

did that for me 2

 

I wonder if it works. Do you guys have a BT 3 device to test it?

 

no, i dont, the only proof for now is that now in devise manager is written bluetooth 3 usb

 

What's the exact BT module you have?
I've recently bought a smartphone that uses BT v3 but I have no BT module in my 5740G as I had no need for it prior to this purchase.
If the driver update ups the whole thing to v3 than I'd like to buy the same module that you guys have.

 

Its BROADCOM 2046 BLUETOOTH. Thats what I was able to find through 'matching device id' in the driver details.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

The hard drive you listed is a 3.5inch hard drive (a desktop hard drive.) It physically wouldn't fit as it's thicker than the laptop.

 

Desktop ATI 11.1 drivers are out. No official mobility, yet.

*goes off to install linux version in laptop*

 

My bad. I could blame it one being up too late last night fretting over this or I could blame it on just being stupid. haha. But seriously I still want to know which would be better the seagate momentus xt or the momentus 7200.4 or the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD4500BLHX 450GB 10000 RPM?
I have never done this before and dont want to run into bios problems or caddy problems for the 2nd hdd. and if i do i want to be prepared for what i need to do like if i need to upgrade bios, etc..

also alot of these newer hdd's have transfer speeds of SATA 6.0Gb/s. Is that something our notebook can do or does it cap off at 3.0GB/s. Does anyone have a spec sheet on this mobo so i can study it.

 

Hi all. What happen with new 11.1 mobility drivers ? I look at official site of ati, but there are still 10.12 version which i don't like very much ? Have a nice day/night !

 

SATA speed doesn't matter- these drives are way too slow to need more bandwidth anyway.

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD4500BLHX is not a notebook drive either- it's 2.5" that's true but that is a server drive. Apart from the fact that it’s ridiculously loud, it will vibrate as a blender and drain battery in no time- that's assuming it will work at all.

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Mobile Catalyst 11.1

Win 7 32bit and Win 7 64bit

 

Your best off with a nice 500GB Momentus XT.

 

So, are this new drivers worth a try?

 

Not official i guess... did you try them ? Compared with 10.11 ?

 

Official. They just have to be uploaded to servers before the website gets updated not the other way around. Now the website is updated too.

 

I installed the driver and I've got 5 more fps in gta ELC, however when I drive any car in it, looks like having puncutre on the rear wheels...

Could you please check your cars in GTA ELC, if you have the same?

PS: I updated it with 11-1_mobility_vista_win7_32-64_ccc version and now the puncture bug fixed.

 

RE: drive limits. The only real drive limit is usually that some of the biggest drives will be the 12.5mm thick format and most all laptops take only the 9mm drives. But currently the only drives that are 12.5mm thick are the 1TB ones anyway.

All the 500/640/750 drives out now are 9mm drives and should fit fine. I just picked up a 500G 7200RPM hitachi travelstar and it's quite speedy in my little Toshiba T235D.

 

Do you guys have MLAA option in CCC?
Cause I don't but then again I’ve messed with this option quite a bit trying to mod drivers a while ago and the result was that I had MLAA enabled no matter what I did in all drivers since 10.11