* Asus N61JQ Owners Lounge *

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They were blue because ASUS put them there to show when you are using the IGP and when your are using the GPU. ( Optimus, namely SB Intel GPUs and Nvidia GPUs, not sure which light goes to which ).

 

Hi, wanted to ask everyone what is the average amount of processes you guys have running. I usually average around 57-66 running processes. Is that to much. How can I lower it? Will cutting the amount of processes improve performance?

I cleaned up my system, got rid of all my bloat ware, registry cleaned, defragment, and checked and repaired windows hard drive. So all of that is out of the way.

I just remember on my old XP desktop, I would have anywhere from 25-32 processes. I know windows 7 requires more processes to run, but 30 more?

Is there a way I can lower that.

Anyone got some tips on which one should I disable no matter what. All I really do is browse the internet and play games, and some college school work.

 

Generally thats about what i have. It should run it fine, the time wasted looking around the small features you don't use isn't worth it. Especially if you format every few months (Like me).
Also a desktop will have less processes that i can tell, Battery, wireless etc (Bluetooth?)

Just leave it and don't tweak too much, although there is a guide i was showed, and it tells you what processes are safe to turn off. But i forgot what the site was called.. As i said it's really pointless..

Just Mat's 2 cents

 

I run around 60-70 processes...

Though with Gamebooster it lowers me to 50-60, BUT, as we have a nice quad core, a couple of more processes won't hurt

 

Thank You so Much !!! worked like a charm mate solved my mysterious problem with a sudden failure of CCC.

Will try to tweak it a little when i do more reading

Display is a little different but does makes things look sharper and a larger screen. Probably things has been resized

But it's all good I used the 2nd method and it's awesomenesss

 

for those who thinks that thei n61 is heating up, u can open the back panel cover n get a philips screw driver to remove the fan cover n clean it up.

careful with the black sticker attached between the heatsink and fan cover (blueish color), from there u will be able to clean the heatsink with all the dust being stuck there.

major improvement on mine and now the fan is quiet n the lappy is cool too.

before this, avg temps (everest) was about high 60's to mid 70's deg C but after a 10-15 mins simple cleaning job, temps are hovering at low 60's to mid 60's deg C running on AMD_Catalyst_11.4_Preview_Win7_Vista_March23_MobilityMod.

happy cleaning. sorry i forgot to snap some pix but im sure ya'l out there knows what im talking about

 

Great! Glad you liked!

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Cheers!

 

Would it be dangerous to unscrew and remove the plastic panel where the graphics card and cpu is? I have a cooling platform, so that part of the laptop will just be sitting in the air, it will not be touching any hard surfaces.

I just thought that might reduce temps while gaming by couple of degrees.

I man, I tried to do what you said, but mine is a little different I think. Can you take a picture of yours or something. I tried to remove my fan cover and remove the dust, but I was not sure what you were talking about. Once I unscrew the back panel, and see the black fan cover, there is yellow tape from the black cover to some wire to keep it in place.

I just do not know how to do what you are talking back.

You got time to help?

 

guys I tried searching but couldn't find nothing accurate.

I have a n61jq for half an year by now and since the beggining I'm facing this camera problem that really pisses me off.

Everytime I try using camera on MSN I get this grey image, then I try openning LifeFrame and get this error msg: "The camera is used by another program".

I googled it and already updated camera driver and LifeFrame but still having this problem.

Sometimes the camera works, but it's very rare.

Few specs from my camera hardware:
ID: USB\VID_13D3&PID_5122&MI_00
Manufacturer: Azurewave
Driver provider: Sonix
Driver version: 5.8.55133.208


Please if someone could help I'd reeeaally appreciate! This problem is really annoying me!

And sorry if I didn't find any solution by searching. I've seen similar problem with other asus notebooks but those solutions didn't work.

Thanks,
Skeleto

 

I was thinking about this too. I think there really isn't any danger other than the fact that your computer might be more susceptible to dust. It'll be easier for it to get in and land inside and it could be annoying to clean out.

If you don't really care about the dust or your cooler keeps all the dust out I think it should help lower the temperature since there'll be much more air flow.

 

I just tried it. While gaming, my temps were staying around 70C-75C, never hit the 80s. Before I would average around 90-94C while gaming. That is a pretty big drop in temps for doing a simple thing.

I did have my cooling mat blow cool air right into the CPU and graphics card area.

I still decided not do this from now on. As the temperature drop did not improve performance. I just think if for some crazy reason my laptop slips out of place, my CPU could get smashed along with my graphics card and motherboard. Also, dust was a factor too. Cooling mats tend to blow more dust into a laptop. Considering I get dust stuck in my laptop while using the protective panel, not having it will probably mean, dust getting into more areas in larger quantities.

 

I glued couple aluminum and one pure copper desktop GPU RAM heatsinks on the CPU area. As the copper heatsink has long spikes so i used 4 bottle caps and glued it on the laptop legs to lift it up, then i use a mini ramp on the table where my 200mm fan behind the laptop will blow air under and the ramp helps concentrates the airflow to the heatsink. CPU never reach 70C heavy gaming in my 30C warm room.

 

You must post pictures.

 

Components:
1x BigBoy 200 Antec.com - Product: Big Boy 200
2x Zalman heatsinks ::: Zalman, leading the world of Quiet Computing Solutions :::
1x Swifttech heatsink Swiftech MC14 BGA Memory Heatsinks - PC Liquid Cooling Systems CPU Cooler VGA Water Block Heatsink Pump Radiator Heat Exchanger Kit
1x custom mini-ramp
4x Bottle caps

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I cant take good pics and explain how to setup a position template on the table examples as i'm using N61 right now and the mobile is running out of batt. Basically the ramp is the main component to make the cooling efficient. There this time i forgot to turn the BigBoy to the max speed and N61 warms up massively playing GTAIV, and when switched to max speed the hot air just blowing pass. Very effective cooling in my opinion.

I do have another idea of adding one high rpm fan and stick to the laptop's fan for active cooling could be the best ever solution combine with the above method but i think is as well overdoing.

 

Is your room really 30C? If it is that is brutal and insane!

 

Outside is usually around 33C to 35C during noon i think, and the house door and windows are wide open as i guess the heat gets in around 30C, pretty dam warm when the wind blows by.

 

I opened my laptop and covering the CPU is a sheet of orange plastic. Is this normal or did the manufacturer forget to remove it.

 

It's not quiet plastic. It's a heatsink made of copper.

 

I don't think copper is transparent.
Its covering the green area of the processor.

 

@herpityderp

I know what's that you are talking about, it comes with the laptop and manufacture have it there to make sure no conductivity contact to the CPU area. I removed it though, is complete optional.