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    1640 tweaking need advice

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by michaeljean, Dec 14, 2009.

  1. michaeljean

    michaeljean Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys longer time viewer first time poster. Anyway I got a 1640 back in august and I love dell's and this laptop except for heating issues. See I work on my laptop and I'm on it 10 hours a day at least. The main thing I care about is performance and cooling. I game with this also so I for performance times I don't care about heat because I turn the computer on it's back and run it thru hdmi out.

    I want to know what else I can do to get this baby running cooler and faster. These are my specs and what I already did. So far so good

    16 RGB LED
    4GB MEM
    Seagate 7200 RPM
    Core 2 Duo 2.66 T9550 ( I got this processor because I thought it was better than the P series )

    This is what I have done.

    1. Undervolting (best thing ever really, temp max used to be 95 down to 71,idle at 34)
    2. Got dell to send me the new cooling vent (same thing just bigger vent)
    3. Added thermal paste on the processor
    4. Running catalyst 9.11 with mobility modder driver. ( I game on this too )
    5. Running win7 x64 with 4gb readyboost (readyboost might not be helping) modified startup, only what I need runs.

    Now my hard drive get's a little warm 42 thinking about ssd if it runs alot cooler and a cooling system (which i really don't want to get because I work in different places alot so I don't want to carry it around.

    Anyway any help would be great thanks
     
    michaeljean, Dec 14, 2009
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  2. ikjadoon

    ikjadoon Notebook Deity

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    SSD all the way. Much cooler, far less power, no noise, and hella faster.

    Defragment?

    Modified startup = services, too?

    ~Ibrahim~
     
    ikjadoon, Dec 14, 2009
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  3. buckZor

    buckZor Notebook Geek

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    How the heck did you undervolt??? I've never seen such a skimpy choice of BIOS options on a system, especially an "XPS" gaming centric system. Grrr! Can't even disable Hyperthreading with the 'tard proof bios on the SXPS 1645!
     
    buckZor, Dec 15, 2009
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  4. michaeljean

    michaeljean Notebook Consultant

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    michaeljean, Dec 15, 2009
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  5. sheikhstone

    sheikhstone Notebook Geek

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    i was just wondering what services u have disactivated...


     
    sheikhstone, Dec 15, 2009
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