Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
Ok, I've re-installed the stock Hitachi drive, formatted, and done a fresh install.
The palmrest heat feels lower. Why this is, I don't know. Right now, the drive is at 51c, after rebooting the system and installing UT2004 off of a DVD. I honestly don't know what to make of it... it actually seems to be running cooler than the Seagate, which is virtually impossible.
The only thing I can think of is that the lower capacity Hitachi drive might have a smaller platter, which would possibly explain why I'm not seeing as much heat on the palmrest. The touchpad is about the same temperature as when I had the Seagate installed. It is by far the hottest area.
Any ideas, guys?
Kai
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Its funny, in the last batch of ASUS notebooks, ie last years, ASUS were taken thru the trash because there fans came on too much...and the things were running too cold. I guess they decided that they would try and make the machines this year less noisy, and now people are complaining about heat, I guess no matter what they do, they will be trashed for it.
Perhaps they should just make a utility that allows the end user to decide, thus then maybe everyone would be happy then.
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In a perfect world then I would agree with you 100%, but the world aint perfect, and sometime there are other valid reasons for the lack of a particular item. It could be that due to the small form factor that extra cooling just wasnt possible, without adding more weight and significant bulk, perhaps they thought that this was not an option, as it would have made the notebook unsellable, remember the reason that this notebook is so hot (as in wanted) is because its got so much packed into a v.small package...to do this somewhere along the lines compromises have to be made.
If your a hard core 3D gamer or modeller then most notebooks that are highly compact and portable arent going to a) have sufficient cooling to be running maxed out all the time or b) have high enough specs to run that stuff well enough in the first place.
Thus if you have a W3V and want to max it out 100% of the time you have to realise that this isnt what the notebook or any highly portable notebook for that matter is designed for (you should get a desktop or at the very least a DTR notebook). Therefore you should probably take precautionary measures such as buying a notebook cooling pad to help reduce overall heat, and or buy a back up hdd and image the disk freqently to aviod data loss. I always run my M6Ne in game mode while on a/c, which I guess is similar to balanced on the W3, as the notebook stays alot cooler, without significant loss in performance. Perhaps this is also another measure users can take to help.
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I think its quite silly to complain about having to use these measures, after all, a pentium 4 desktop processor would practically start a fire in your laptop. so how do we get that kind of performance into a tiny compact laptop? by using these kinds of measures. That's why intel devoloped speed step, SO USE IT! Furthermore, all pentium-m's are already low voltage cpu's.. but they're concervatively set. So if you want a cooler laptop, then take the time and undervolt it. Again, there's no performance loss (assuming you make sure you don't undervolt too much to the point of instability).
Finally, i don't understand what all the bickering is about. BBQmyNUTZ, your laptop is functionally isn't it? So why are you complaining about heat so much? If it's too hot for your personal standards, then take the steps to cool it to your satisfaction (start with using speedstep!! then undervolt, and if you're still not happy, use a cooling pad or buy a fan from the hardware store and blow it on your laptop when you're using it).
Asus developed a laptop that would run to spec and it's doing that and it will do it reliabily. If you don't "like" the heat, then do what u can to lower it, but don't go on and on and on about how it's a poor design when it works exactly as prescribed. IF, and i do mean IF your laptop fails, then you have grounds to complain, but right now you're just making stuff up.
Hopefully i haven't offended anyone; i just find these posts are getting silly with people going on about how their laptop is GOING TO FAIL, and how it's TOO HOT, when NO ONE has reported any heat related failures. congradulations to all the new w3 owners on getting a new, nice laptop. sit back, use it, play with it, and stop worrying yourself and others about what you THINK is proper operating temperatures and good laptop design.
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Bravo, I'm done trying to post reasonable responses to the "heat issue." I'll be glad to chime in in a couple of years and announce to the world that the W3V is still going strong and post HDD fitness tests to show just that.
It's easy for people draw up images of a perfect laptop, even go into general descriptions of how the cooling should be, how this button should be here and there but who in here is actually an engineer who can evaluate the methods ASUS used in developing the W3V.
I honestly don't care how many hours one spent on silentpc.com or overclockers.com. All of the methods used there are applicable to a single user and a single machine. If it meant quieting the machine by a couple decibles, sure I'd go out and purchase a $15 dollar panaflo with a regulator but that's not realistic for millions of machines.
People complain about how companies use POS equipment and how they would gladly pay the price for better components. Well first of all you bought an ensemble; don't expect it to be perfectly catered to your taste. But as someone mentioned, there's a million dollar industry on cooling and silencing just for you so you can hack all you want in fixing the mistakes that millions of dollars of R&D never found.
All I want is a reasonable and somewhat peaceful debate about the WARMTH issue but we can't even seem to manage that. Instead there's bickering and whining that just leads to callous words. If this issue is just as bad as some people make it out to be then I expect my HDD to be dead within the year. I do massive amounts of copying from the HDD and so I also tend to degragment several times a month. I also reinstall Windows XP at least once or twice a year. I have tons of naruto episodes on this W3V and watch them whenever I have time at school. I also do amateurish renderings on lightwave so with all the heat I am constantly generating as well as the sweltering humidity and heat that summer brings to Ohio, I'll be #1 on the list for warranty service. Talk to you all about my dead HDD in a few months. []
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I have noticed this on my M2N and it also used to occur occassionally on my old desktop, thus I think its an issue with XP more than ASUS. It tends to happen more often when I come out of a hybernation, as reboot usually solves the problem. Sometimes simply going into the program eg ati task manager and turning off then back on the display icon in task bar also fixes the issue.
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ps now were offically off topic...lol
ASUS M6Ne 15.4" WSXGA 1.7 PM ATI9700 80Gb HDD 1Gb RAM
W3V Hard Drive/Palmrest heat.. the saga continues.
Discussion in 'Asus' started by BBQmyNUTZ, May 10, 2005.
