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    Anyone willing to stress test X83VM-X1/2?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by anttimonty, Feb 24, 2009.

  1. anttimonty

    anttimonty Newbie

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    Hi,
    I'm new here and hopefully I will have something to share with you once I get a notebook :) Anyways I'm thinking of ordering Asus X83VM-X1, but am cautios since the last notebook (Zepto 6224W) overheated under stress.

    If someone would be kind enough to do some stability testing with FurMark and log GPU temps while doings so. I'd like to know how high the temp goes. If possible at the same time run Sandra Burning Wizard with CPU test selected and log CPU temp also any additional temp redings would be apreciated like chipset etc.

    Oh yeah I'm basicly looking for a notebook with 14" screen preferrably with 1440x900 resolution and matt finish, perfomance should be equaliant to 2.2GHz C2D with 8600M/9600M GPU.

    Something that also caught my eye was this, but I haven't seen any benchmarks on this nor have I seen any temp readings:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220495
     
  2. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Just monitor your temps while you stress test. No laptop should overheat unless there is poor QC. You should complain to Zepto.
     
  3. anttimonty

    anttimonty Newbie

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    Oh well I bought my Zepto second hand so I complained to the seller and send it back. This is why I'm now cautios as they don't sell this (X83VM-X1) notebook here in europe and it would be a pain to buy one and see it overheat as it seems that it is happening with various of notebooks and that is the way they just are. I simply haven't found a single good 14" notebook here with a decent price.

    Most users don't even know that their notebooks are overheating because they thottle down a bit and don't have stability issues and the thottling just goes unnoticed.

    For exsample the Zepto I had would give 4500 marks in 3Dmark06 when cool, but once heated up the score started to go down all the way to 3100 marks which is really notisable. Then I tested FurMark and GPU was hitting 110°C under stress. Speedfan displayed various other temps over 80°C etc.

    It rarely crashed while gaming, but the thottling was noticable. I decided to make an additional test and put the notebook to a weather chamber at work and cooled it down to -5°C ran test there and it didn't thottle at all 3Dmark06 score stayed at a healthy 4500 marks continuosly so it wasn't a software error.