Asus G60Vx - 3.06ghz T9900 Surgery & Initial Impressions (large pics warning)

Disassembly Guide

 

could some1 show me how to bring up tat HP deal? i cant seem the find the CPU accesories section on HP site...

 

T9900 $340

 

My Zalman NC2000 was delivered today by UPS from Amazon to the front porch.

Of course, it's not there!

Another week's wait for this!

 

did they go to your neighbors? Thats what FedEx did to me the other day...

 

No, it was a front door drop, no signature needed. So unless a neighbor or someone took it deliberately...

 

Yes..mine was a front door drop. but they dropped it at the wrong address. They dropped it at #96 on my street instead of #95.

 

We'll see if anyone knocks and it shows up... (doubt it though, since our door number and porch is not in anyway ambiguous)..already called Amazon and they are resending another one (this time, I'll be telling UPS to hold at their facility). At least Amazon is always awesome.

 

NC2000 won't really lower your temps anyway. Unless you're like me and game with the notebook on your lap, then it makes a difference of ~7C.

 

There is at least 4 instances of my house # on mailbox/power pole/door/porch, and they seemed to miss all of them. I'd never underestimate a delivery man these days.

 

I'm sure it will lower it a few degrees, and I am waiting for my IC Diamond 7 which will help too. I'm estimating 19-20C idle for the CPU, and 45C idle for the GPU.

Will be sticking on a few copper ramsinks too for good measure.

 

Oh, trust me, it does. It might not lower my maximum temperatures--which is almost always 86C no matter the ambient--but it'll keep me at a cooler stabilization temperature.

 

Good to know... god dammit why doesn't Microcenter ever stock the good stuff? They always have the crappy stuff on the shelves... No Zalman cooler, no ICD7, no Intel X-25m (which are all sold out everywhere now that TRIM firmware is out)...

 

So did temps stabilize?
If temps are acceptable this is a very nice combo.
Any changes?

 

Yes, they do

 

Using those settings but higher clocks on the memory (950) I max out at 81C.

 

^liar...i thought u had high temps? or is that 81 after new thermal paste + bottom panel mod etc?

 

Both. Forge's temps were always lower than everyone's because he runs everything at 1366x768 (limitation of his display). Our temps are higher because we're pushing >2x the pixels so it heats up the GPU more. I'll post a pic of the temps I reported later tonight after I'm done studying. I'm guessing my temps will drop even more after copper is added.

 

I have been unmanned! I guess taking out that hole really does do wonders.

Not doubting you, but a screenshot would be nice, along with ambient. (And that is with no cooler, right?)

I guess it's back to the drawing board for me. T9900, where art thou.

 

920XM, where art thou.

 

I tried capturing the ambient (plus other temps) using fraps instead of printscrn and I ended up recording a 10 sec video of furmark instead. Anyway, its been hot here so I've been running the A/C all day which probably helps. The GPU temp kept going back and forth between 81/82C so the average was probably somewhere inbetween. I actually had to run this a few times to get this smooth line because in other runs it would hit 80C and the fan would shut off and it would loop back to 88C, kick on and shut off again at 80C (roller coaster like Element's pics). Temps in CPUID HW Monitor were as follows:

THRM: 68C max
CPU: 60/57C max
GPU: 88C max
HDD: 43C max

I did not use a cooling pad either. The zalman is actually quite useless for that stuff, it only hleps when I'm gaming on my lap (which is why I bought it). The hole mod itself takes care of the bulk of cooling.

 

Some numbers on my new machine
Yesterday was a busy day, got my G60, installed a T9900 with IC7 and so far so good. Ran Furmark at 1024x768 res(wouldn't run on higher res and I have no external monitor) for 600 or 700 seconds and temps maxed out at 90c with ExtremeTurboMode .( I think I saved a screen shot but have no idea were it is, any help and I will post it).
Love this laptop so far.
Yes FurMark makes the GPU run hotter than I would want but that is only when running FurMark, during gaming and after running some benchmarks for a while highest temp I seen on the GPU was 84c.
That's not too bad at all.
Gotta say I love the backlit keyboard and new color,this is a very well built laptop.
Only fault I could find so far is that the keyboard has a little flex in the middle but really no big deal.
People have complained about the low screen res but to me it looks great and the LCD is very bright and colors really pop.Wireless works great with no drop off in signal at any spot at home.
For the price you pay this is well worth the money....so far.....

 

Tried Ntune but system crashes.
There are many versions anyone know which one works for this laptop?
SetFSB # would be very helpful too!

 

Go to Tev's optimization guide.

 

I was told to use Nvidia System tools. It allows you to overclock the GPU.

 

I used Nvidia system tools and am running at 550/950/1375 using the performance utility in there. Also when you save out of the utility it will prompt you to using the custom settings when you boot so you don't have to do anything manually. That worked perfectly for me.

 

Are those numbers what the card should be since Asus downclocks it?

I want to change mine but not sure what the true numbers are.

 

Yes, I believe those are the actual stock numbers. I also read through Tev's guide and he has the same numbers. Needless to say, my machine is running stable at those speeds and I haven't seen my GPU temperature go over 85C.

 

Thanks! I'll change mine to those numbers and see how it runs.

 

Got my Zalman. GPU idle drops to 49C - yay.

 

Thanks!
Downloaded Nvidia System Tools and everything works great.
At these speeds my system runs very stable while keeping temps at a pretty decent level.
But when gaming for a few hours temps never went any higher than 83c.
Used IC7 on GPU and CPU.
This 3DMARK06 run is at the optimum clocks my laptop runs, probably could go hire but things get a little wonky when going any higher.
So far so good.
Really lovin this new laptop.

 

Btw have u tried Furmark and Intelburntest now that you have your cooler?

 

Still waiting for my ICD7... or rather it took Fedex Ground 10 FREAKING DAYS to deliver, and is now at the Fedex facility held for pickup.

I will be getting those this weekend.

I just installed an X-25M G2 80GB SSD into it, and will be playing Dragon Age for now.

 

Would be great to see before n after with both tests, i mean woudlnt you want to see how much improvement was the icd7 over stock paste?

 

Not really interested in seeing the card have to go through insane temps, especially not with Furmark, which is not IMO safe to run without making sure temps are optimal.

 

Just finished Post-Op surgery.

Installed ICD7 on the GPU, Chipset, and CPU.

My idles have dropped about 5 degrees (GPU), CPU remains the same, Chipset temps dropped.

Furmark 1920x1200 Extreme Burning Full Screen for 5 minutes hit 87C top, leveled to 85C. I hit F9 but it didn't take the screen shot for some reason.

This is sitting on a NC2000 on lowest fan setting, running GPU at 550/950/1375, and CPU at 3.3ghz.

Not bad, I'm done with additions (now has an 80GB INtel X-25M & the stock 320GB 7200 drive sitting in it).

I may upgrade to 8GB of RAM at some point, but I think this is it.

New idle temps:

 

Are you still having troubles with the GPU not downclocking in 2D mode??

If so I had the same problem. Turned out I had to change my registry "PerfLevelSrc" (there's two of them under video/0000 and video/0001 set the registry value to 3333 (i think) if it's set to 2222 that turns it off completely. 3322 causes downclock on batt and full clock on AC pwr. And 3333 causes downclock in 2d mode and ramp up with 3d.

Monk

 

The screenshot should be in the Furmark directory.

 

It is defaulted to 3333. Nothing works basically. Running 186.82 right now.

PowerMizerDefault
PowerMizerEnable
PowerMizerLevel
PowerMizerLevelAC

Are all (3) or (1) which should be set to on.

 

Aha.. there it is:

Image deleted for size.

 

That is not a "stable" temperature" Its still climbing. and thumbnail that image please, its huge.

 

Poor Panda. Try 1200 seconds or until you hit hit 90C, whichever comes first.

And don't forget to tell us your ambient. If you're running this Furmark trial in the Gobi Desert it would affect your temperatures.

 

yea, run for longer, it needs to be at least 20-40% screen width pixels same line to be considered stable.

 

There you go, slightly resized:

Same settings, maxed at 89C - 20 MINUTES!!! Back down to 48-49C in a few minutes. Ambient is 60-70F (Whatever the heat is set to in the apartment).



I also realized this is running 2 monitors, which may be more stressful for the card.

 

And btw would mind ruining intelburntest, i just want to see how it compares in temps to a T9600.

 

I'm going to run it at 3.3ghz... what settings should be used?

 

Stress level at maximum. Default number of passes is good enough for now.

 

lol u dun wanna see my C2Q intel burntest

nice temps pre-modded btw, good to see 89C FURMARK with OC. ive tried mine at 585/950/1475, i get horrible results...16xQAA, 1080p, xtreme burn (try doing that to see if there is any difference), it maxes @ 98C b4 highest fan speed kicks in and stabilizes @ 98 as well...sad sad.

one thing i find weird, how are G60 owner reporting much lower GAME temps but similar/slighly lower furmark results?

 

Non-extreme burn has a different result in the screenshot (because the texture is moving)

 

wait, is his xtreme or not? that looks the same as mine so i guess its xtreme burn mode?