I just got my W3J and I've read where people are getting 3-4 hours on their battery on the same setting I'm using. I'm on battery, screen brightness is around 88%, cores both running at 997MHz and just simple idling and web browsing only getting around 2-2 1/2 hours.
Any suggestions on how to get an extra hour of battery life? (Again, on NBF a guy is getting 3:45 with his screen brightness @ 88%).
my specs:
Core 2 Duo T7400 @ 2.16Ghz
2GB Corsair PC2 5300
100GB Seagate 7200RPM
Everything else standard W3J (8 cell ... 6 cell optical bay battery coming soon)
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Specs in my sig. All tests/benchmarks were done on fresh reboots as well as a clean install of XP. Default drivers used.
3DMark06
3DMark05
3DMark03
PCMark04
Test for CounterStrike Source. In an 24 man Officer server I averaged 70-80 fps. Lowest 55 fps, Highest 122 fps.
Video Stress Test
Video Settings
In game screenshot
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try with screen at 2nd to lowest brightnes..im interested in seeing if the battery is equal to the core duo's
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what is the battery life of the core duo at 88% brightness? -
Don't know, but maybe it's because of the rather high-end T7400 CPU? The pre-configured (default) model only comes with a T5500.
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having a T7400 2.16GHz could make me lose 1 hr of battery life?
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CPU undervolted? His may be... That was a huge battery life gain on my Z33.
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lol, i'm getting around just over 4hr on the 8 cell with my core duo T2500, 2gig ram. Thats with
wifi off
bluetooth off
disabled the cd drive
disabled the lan, wifi, 1934 adapters
disabled the internal modem
disabled the IR
screen on 2nd lowest brightness
running on battery saving mode
switched off the antivirus
Running MS Word 2007 - typing sporadically
Plus if you really want battery life, you wouldnt be doing much that is performanced based so running it at 997mhz will be plenty. -
I was able to reduce my P-Ms voltage by ~0.3V throughout the range of SpeedSteps. This increased battery life (I don't remember exactly how much, especially since I installed NHC immediatly after Windows) and gave me a ~10-20% reduction in CPU temps as well.
W3J battery life + my benchmarks
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