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m9700 problems

Discussion in 'Alienware' started by shibbyshaun, Mar 22, 2010.

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Whatever game i'm playing whether it is TF2 or Quake 3 my frames per second will drop to 0-15 for about 20 seconds and it is completely unplayable. This happens every few minutes. It goes back to normal afterwards but it just happens again a few minutes later.

I have an Alienware Aurora m9700, AMD Turion ML-37 2Ghz, 2 Gig Ram, Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS.

I realize a laptop is not ideal for gaming, but really the gaming is just an added bonus and I got this laptop quite cheap.

I've never had this problem before and have been using the laptop for about 5 months.

I thought it might be a problem with the laptop overheating so I downloading speedfan to check the temperatures and they are around 60-65 when idle and mid 70's when i'm playing a game. It doesn't let me change the speed of my fans.

Does anyone know what might be wrong?

shibbyshaun, Mar 22, 2010

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TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso

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I see you're monitoring the temps, but if it's been more than a couple of months since you actually opened up the machine and cleared out the heat sinks, I'd check that out. Sounds like the GPU may be throttling. Redo the thermal paste too. The 7900 actually isn't bad for gaming. The 7900/7950GTX can still be found on ebay sometimes, and are both beasts.

TurbodTalon, Mar 22, 2010

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