$250 bucks and several upgrades later.

Was bored so I thought I'd post up my laptop. Figured it might be a nice change from buying/upgrading advice threads?

Sorry for the bad picture.

















I could afford a 1k+ laptop but, I couldn't afford all the money up front but, i bought an almost decent laptop, an Acer 5920G with a, T5250/2gb DDR2 800/8600m GT/no HDD. Then when i got some money i installed a WesternDigital "WD10JPVT" 5400 RPM 1Tb hdd and windows 7, then got a 4GB stick of DDR2 800 bumping me up to 5gb. I then got an HD4670 DDR2 which ran at 90-110c then I side graded to an Nvidia GT 240m DDR3 and finally a T9300 and AR9380 wifi card.

When I upgraded my CPU I did a PPL mod and over clocked the T9300 from 2.5ghz at 800mhz FSB to 2.95ghz @ 947mhz FSB, my ram went from 667 (chipset limitation) to around 700mhz. I also did some cooling mods, which apparently helped.

EDIT: my GT 240m is overclocked too coreclock:550 @ 673 MHz | memoryclock: 800 @ 1003 MHz

I'm pretty happy with those temps. This is under some casual use and gaming. Gpu under furmark hit 85C after about an hour or so.

Well since i couldn't afford one i built one as i could afford/find the parts. All i could really do now is a 1-2TB drive/SSD, a battery and or Better screen with higher Res, a friend with the same laptop installed 1440x900 screen with better image quality.

So far I can play games like, dirt 2, mafia 2, BatMan AA, BatMan AC at medium/high-high at a good 40-50 fps.

 

How did you get the CPU to idle at 9C?

 

I'm giving him reputation PURELY for being able to get a mobile core 2 duo to idle at 9 degrees celcius.

 

One time my friend and I were installing a new cooler and thermal past and starting joking around "I bet this som'.b is gonna run at 4 dagreez celsius!" low and behold we boot in the bios HW monitor to see it say "4C".

I imagine it's just it hitting close to room temps and registering as 9c

 

Aaaaawwwwwww. I didn't remember getting them this high.



a hour or several in portal 2 in my lap with plenty of fresh air to intake.

EDIT: still within spec ad the overclock held.

 

Its possible that maximum recorded gpu temperatures are attributed to the temporary 'spike' that can occur before the gpu stabilizes down to its nominal temperatures under maximum load.

Having said that... have you tried undervolting the GPU first and then overclocking it afterwards?
I think you would gain lower clocks that way, but it would probably reduce the temperatures by about 10 degrees at the same time.
Btw... how does that 240M compare to 9700m GT gaming-wise?
The 240M seems to have 50% more pipelines than the 9700m GT (not GTS)... though if the gigaflops output is any indication, it puts 240M about 20% ahead of 9700m GT.

Also, you seem to have carved out some of that casing to allow for a larger airflow (basically just over the size of the fan).
What did you replace the hole with if you don't mind me asking?
The type of material, etc.

Finally... what did you mean when you said that you installed the new cooler?
Did you replace the stock one with a new one or what?
If you did, what cooler did you use exactly?

 

it is on the same level as a HD4670m ddr3, just with hd4670 in the lead. i never haf a 9700 but, maybe some other who are more experienced can post in here?

I could definitely tell you my settings in my games and how FPS, i have quite a few games.Though all source game are the same, tey run high with AA a 30-50 fps.