ASUS V6 SERIES - How hot?

Does your V6 series heat up when connected to AC? Mine does and the palmrest is noticeably warm

Post your system temps. Here are mine:

• MB - 55C
• CPU - 52C
• GPU - 61C
• HD - 47C

 

I'm gaming, alt tabbed, checked speedfan

MB 49
CPU 49
HD 36
GPU 61

 

Am worried about the HD temp. Its 4200rpm, how come its generating so much heat??

and i can't even use nhc. bluescreens on me

 

Don't worry...... this is mainly user error in a way.... you just don't know your computer yet......... I'd say you're in the same boat as most of the other people who complain and then when they find the answer they go on their merry way and never post again..

When you're plugged in, powergear is going to set you to only the higher modes..... high performance and super performance both run the cpu at FULL speed.... that's basically a no-no on a centrino system unless you REALLY need it...... usually it'll scale to whatever you want, but powergear is your way to override those auto settings and set them where you want them. Here's the kicker - the plugged in settings are going to be hotter because they think if you're plugged in and running the sysem you must be doing some intense stuff... It's a laptop with incredible battery life and Asus didn't design it to be used sitting at a desk plugged in........ Although it's beat into everyone's head to just do that, it's designed to although to you step away from that and plug it in when you get home.

... all of the battery mode settings are really what's best to use with that system under normal use... you could run around with it in email mode, running at 800mhz and you'll be able to email, im, internet, word processing with no problem at all...... great battery life and a cool running system.

Just remember - performance comes at a cost..... mainly it uses battery life and creates heat.... Then that heat needs to be removed and a fan kicks on to remove it.... the fan's rpm's are triggered by different heat levels and you could go back to the begining and start over.

You just need to find a good way to balance all that power and tame it to perform when you want it to and step it down when you don't.


... but just so you don't confuse anyone and just to inform you incase you had no idea... your graphics card is not a 512mb nvidia 7400.... It's a 128mb dedicated with 384mb of shared memory that is allocated from your 1024mb of system ram to be used as nvidia's "turbo cache" -- like ATI's hypermemory that I posted so much about. I know your system properties will show 512mb, but it is not to be confused with dedicate VRAM..... that is what's really going to be used in gaming and for me.. I just don't want people to be or get confused with the two.

 

thx for that info justin. btw can you try nhc on one of your core duos?

i thought it was 256mb dedicated, but now i stand corrected

 

Temp when running on batteries & quiet office profile

• MB - 43C
• CPU - 41C
• GPU - 47C
• HD - 37C

A lot cooler now

Is there an option to modify the memory allocation for turbo cache?

 

Try NHC without undervolting. If what Justin says is true (I don't know when he's been wrong) about CPU full-throttle when plugged in, at least you could use dynamic switching with NHC. BTW - you must have too low of voltages if it is blue-screening. Is that the case?

 

but nhc simply doesnt work on the new core duos. bluescreens when lauched ><;
0.95v?low?

 

Yeah, ok, I'm retarded. I thought you meant the V6Va.

Well, I'm no longer of any help. Good luck!

 

how hot is your z63a then?

 

Under normal use it hangs out around 45 C (CPU and HD). However, it doesn't have a dedicated GPU, which will make a difference.