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    How many hours do you get while gaming on your laptop's battery!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Saisei, Jan 19, 2009.

  1. Saisei

    Saisei Notebook Deity

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    I get 2hours using power svings,1hr 30min on balanced,1hour high performance.
     
    Saisei, Jan 19, 2009
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  2. cumbaya19

    cumbaya19 Notebook Evangelist

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    my graphics card doesnt work as well without being plugged in =(
     
    cumbaya19, Jan 19, 2009
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  3. Shaythong

    Shaythong Notebook Evangelist

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    I always game when it's plugged in, but I think when it's unplugged... battery life doesn't last long also when I'm just watching a video. Maybe I need to modify a setting for it.
     
    Shaythong, Jan 19, 2009
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  4. anothergeek

    anothergeek Equivocally Nerdy

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    I don't think I'd get more than 30 minutes at full overclocked speed playing crysis... :rolleyes:
     
    anothergeek, Jan 19, 2009
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  5. theneighborrkid

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    Depends on mine, on a 2 hour flight form SLC to SFO, played the original Unreal Tournament, Track Mania, and Portal (with settings down for those last two) and still had 50% battery when I got off, I was kinda... shocked, didn't think 7811-FX's had that good of a battery...T'was on Power Saver
     
    theneighborrkid, Jan 19, 2009
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  6. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    It sure would be nice if people would post what notebook and GPU they were using.
     
    HTWingNut, Jan 19, 2009
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  7. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    More than an hour - 5920G - T5750@stock; HD3470@stock; 4GB; 250GB Hitachi; wireless - on (idle).
     
    triturbo, Jan 19, 2009
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  8. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Under an hour lol. I do have 2 cards and 2 hdds though...
     
    eleron911, Jan 19, 2009
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  9. hydra

    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    I tortured my old Dell battery playing games, the bugger got really hot and was replaced after 13 months..$100.

    No thanks, I'll keep mine plugged in, for games, to avoid having anything throttle back.
     
    hydra, Jan 19, 2009
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  10. Saisei

    Saisei Notebook Deity

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    Is it safe to keep it plugged in?
     
    Saisei, Jan 19, 2009
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  11. unknown555525

    unknown555525 rawr

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    I get about 4 hours 20 minutes on max performance playing games (cs 1.6, Ghost Recon, Starcraft, RoN, etc.).... on my Aspire one ;) GMA950, Atom 270 etc.

    My previous Sager 5791 got about 30-40 minutes of gaming on games like Crysis. 8700mGT, T7500 etc.
     
    unknown555525, Jan 19, 2009
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  12. deathstick

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    Mine lasts all of an 1-1/2 hrs on battery on balanced. I assume similar battery life on High Performance mode, and 2 hrs on powersaving. 9-cell battery btw.
     
    deathstick, Jan 20, 2009
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  13. Apollo13

    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

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    I get more than an hour on high performance - not a whole lot more, but a bit more even for high-CPU, high-GPU games. "Balanced", which the closest approximation for me would probably be a dimmer backlight in a dark area on battery, would also be 1-2 hours. Power saver would be more than 2 hours, so I didn't vote for that. I'd only do that for stategy games such as Civilization III where 2D graphics power is enough, but even then a higher-clocked CPU helps. For gaming, you really want high performance.

    The other caveat is that I control my power-saving (or lack thereof) settings myself, rather than letting Windows do it. So I can get a bit more time out of the same battery thanks to undervolting, and even more on power saver thanks to more aggressive underclocking (both CPU and GPU there - though not often while gaming!).

    Trackmania is probably my most-played-on-battery game. I always keep the CPU and GPU at full 3D speeds for that - it really needs the power. I've even been known to overclock the GPU on battery - thankfully the battery provides enough juice for that.

    Inspiron 1520 with 85 WHr 9-cell battery, 8600M GT, T7500. Vintage July 2007.
     
    Apollo13, Jan 21, 2009
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  14. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    I get about 1hr, to 1.5hrs on High Perdormance...
     
    ahl395, Jan 21, 2009
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