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    7200RPM Hard Drive Heat Question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by blinkme_210, Aug 7, 2004.

  1. blinkme_210

    blinkme_210 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Would my Compaq R3000 Series notebook casing be able to handle all the extra heat that a 7200RPM hard drive would produce? I want to swap in a 7200RPM hard drive, but am scared to because with the current factory 4200RPM hard drive it already produces a lot of heat, let alone trying to swap in a 7200RPM hard drive...
     
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    I've been running a Hitachi 7200RPM HD in my zv5000z (same guts as the R3000z) for months without issue. It's a fairly cool-running drive, currently idling at 38C. It's cooler than many non-Hitachi 4200RPM drives. You won't have any problems with heat. I highly recommend the upgrade, just be careful not to bend any pins while swapping the plastic adaptor from the old drive to the new.

    It is not believed that swapping HDs voids the warranty.
     
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    I agree with brainstretch. I have the 60gig 7200rpm harddrive, and heat is not a problem. The palm rest dont get hot AT ALL. The bottom does get a little warm, but nothing out of the ordingary, and its no big deal.

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    Let me second the votes for the Hitachi 7200rpm 60GB; the only time I feel a lot of heat coming out the exhausts is when running heavy graphics operations - normal disk intensive database stuff doesn't phase it.

    Than's to Brian's warning I was real careful swapping the drives, but it was really easy.
    Observe connections and jumper settings carefully, make notes or take digital snapsots if your camera does macro close-ups well.

    One of the many USB2 external cases (I have a Vantec NexStar) can make a neat 30 or 40 GB sneaker net / backup drive out of the old 4200 rpm drive.

    A question for brianstretch: how do you get the drive temp readings?

    Stefano
    HP zv5200 DP523AV: AMD 64 3400 2.2GHz, 2x512MB RAM, 60GB 7200rpm HDD (Hitachi 7K60), 15.4" WUXGA (1920x1200), XP Pro; Paradox
     
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    http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/8259/
     
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    Thanks - got it. How does 75 C (CPU temp?) sound, sitting on a firm flat surface - reduced to 67 C when I used a piece of 1x2 to raise the back feet of the laptop a bit (3/4 inch). Keyboards used to have such feet - why not laptops? Oh yeah, Targus would be out some sales. Silly me.
     
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    75C is rather high. The fans should kick in hard at around 60C. It's within spec so you're OK but... hmm. Are you running the current BIOS (R.12)? Heck, with power management enabled you should be staying in the low 40C range while idle. Your 3400+ will run hotter than my 3200+ with power management disabled though.
     
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    It seemed a little high to me, and the heat exhaust was noticeable. Getting the back up off the table helped - temp has been 67-70 since then. (the hard disk, btw, stays at 33 all the time so far)

    I'm not sure about the control panel Power Options screen. I operate on battery only maybe 1/6 of the time. I don't want the thing going into hibernation when it's on line power, but I wouldn't mind if the AMD64 throttled back when I'm not using it. Any tips on how and where to let that happen? The cp Power Options choices all seem to be about screen and disk shutdown, standby, and hibernation.

    Stefano
    HP zv5200 DP523AV: AMD 64 3400 2.2GHz, 2x512MB RAM, 60GB 7200rpm HDD (Hitachi 7K60), 15.4" WUXGA (1920x1200), XP Pro; Paradox
     
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    There's a Power Schemes setting too. Change it to Portable/Laptop. You might want to get the latest AMD processor driver from amd.com too. After you've set Portable/Laptop, change the rest of the settings (standby, etc) to whatever you want.
     
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    The AMD site said the version was 1.1.0.14, and the Device Manager said the current was 1.1.0.0 - but the file date times were the same, and Windows refused to finish the update since there was no change, so I must have the latest. I'm on a Laptop setting now, and the processor temp is 35, same as HDD, frequency sits at 800 with spikes to 2000, 2200. A whole lot less heat pumping out the exhaust now!

    Stefano
    HP zv5200 DP523AV: AMD 64 3400 2.2GHz, 2x512MB RAM, 60GB 7200rpm HDD (Hitachi 7K60), 15.4" WUXGA (1920x1200), XP Pro; Paradox
     
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