acer 5672 question - heat/buildquality

I've researched this for about a month and it seems that the acer 5672 with x1400 GPU is pretty much everything i want in a laptop except for battery life. The battery life i hear lasts 2-3 hours which isn't great, but i guess i can sacrifice that.

I've read alot about heat issues and how even the touchpad is so hot you should use an external mouse, is there a way to reduce the heat? like replacing a fan or something? ( limited knowledge)

And since the 5672 is hot a lot of the times doesn't heat eventually warp the insides of the notebook and reduce the lifetime of the notebook?

 

I'm looking forward to a response as well. Heat is the only realy issue with this laptop. When I tried it out at CompUSA the palm rest was very warm. Think of it as a hand warming device. The touchpad was very hot, possibly painful if finger held there too long. Underneath was a potential nightmare for scrotums everywhere. I think you get the picture. This experience has led me away from Acer and towards Asus, which has similar features. If heat is a concern, as it was with me thinking about keeping my hands over a heater for hours while I typed, I would consider other options.

Unless you guys have a solution?

 

no one is replying =/. But i also went from asus to acer because of the dvi and BT back to asus because of the heat issue. I use the touchpad quite alot when i carry my notebook from place to place, it being scrotum burning hot would not be ideal.

 

sorry for the late reply as this is my first post. the Acer 5672 runs incredibly hot - when plugged in. Using the built-in power manager the performance is throttled down a bit when running on battery power however.

my greatest concern when buying this laptop was the heat issue. go into a compusa and rest your hand over the keys and the palmrest - feel all that heat eminating? that's how it is ALL the time. even after a few minutes of use - and dont let the salespeople tell you otherwise.

unplugged the heat is manageable - from the palmrest and keypad, but plugged in the thing really can get hot to the touch - like if any vents were blocked this would be a portable lawsuit (i once closed the laptop without powering down and when i took my laptop of my bag 45 minutes later and opened it i actually shrieked when i put my hand on the palmrest!)

with that said, a solution i found on the other forums was to purchase a $10 Antec fan at compusa. they have another one that's more expensive but both the forums and the salesman agreed this was better. it plugs in by USB and has two settings - low and high. it also has a usb passthrough so you can plug your other USB devices into it. its about as thick as the laptop and is powered by USB.

using the antec fan you can once again consider this a "lap" top as the computer will never directly rest on your legs. so too, the fan will keep the keypad and palmrest cool and all your troubles will be free. so, if you're plugged in use the fan on high, unplugged use it on low (or not at all) and remember you're putting some unreal processing power into a very small machine - this is bound to generate a LOT of heat.

in the end, an amazingly powerful laptop rated highly with insane specs for around $1600 becomes a no-brainer purchase with the addition of a $10 fan.

still, make no mistake. YES the Acer5672 runs very hot. but the fan does help..

hope this post was helpful! feel free to ask any other questions. i've had the laptop for a few months now...

shimone

 

p.s. This thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=37507

is absolutely essential if you're looking to buy the Aspire 5672. it answers EVERY question you can imagine and runs 36 pages deep. the heat issues are mentioned numerous times as are the various solutions. click "last" on the page links to start with more recent entries and then scroll to the top of each page to traverse through more recent discussion.

 

wow, thanks alot for your reply. It's been really informative, now these 38 pages or so lol...

 

happy to help.

another post i just stumbled on is the latest (3224) bios from the UK site apparently turns the internal fan on appropriately.

GMK writes:

See the following thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=53628

 

thanks again, I read the post and his was the only one stating that the fan turned on correctly. I wonder if this solves the problem completely.


Is the heat the only major problem with the acer 5672?

 

I'm puzzled by GMK's experience with the fan and BIOS 3224. Since I flashed my BIOS I've noted the fan coming on less, rather than more. My CPU temperatures don't seem too bad (49 - 55 degress) but my harddrive is running about 5 degrees warmer (40-47). Nothing to panic about but different from GMK.

sibelius

 

How long have you had your 5672? Is your laptop warm/hot like other peoples or is that just not that common? Any problems with the laptop? wouldu recommend it?

 

Personally, I haven't had any "issues" with my 5670 but I feel that it is not an exceptionally well-built computer. If I could turn back time, I probably would have waited for the Asus A6Jc. I just worry that if I was a little rough with the Acer something would very likely break. I've also been a fan of Asus's desktop boards for a long time and they've never let me down.

That being said, Acer chose good quality components for the 5670 and so I don't have any worries about the way that it functions. I've been very happy using it. My biggest gripe is a squeaky Backspace key and if that's all I have to complain about I think that's pretty good.

No manufacturer is going to produce perfect laptops 100% of the time, so pick the one that you feel the most comfortable with. I forgot to mention that Acer doesn't offer a fantastic global warranty vs. Asus so I'm not too impressed about that.

sibelius