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    Not getting the battery life id expect M860TU

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by vestibule1443, Oct 2, 2008.

  1. vestibule1443

    vestibule1443 Notebook Evangelist

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    it cant even eek out 2 hours if im doing nothing but web surfing. I intentionally bought components with maximum battery life in mind and im hearing of people with more draining components getting 2 and a half hours. i use power saver battery mode, silent mode, and i even have the appearance set to performance.

    what could it be?
     
    vestibule1443, Oct 2, 2008
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  2. Deathwinger

    Deathwinger Notebook Virtuoso

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    What you got plugged into the computer? stuff like external hard drives, flash drives, wireless mice, bluetooth, printers, etc. can be a drain on the battery life of the system.
     
    Deathwinger, Oct 2, 2008
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  3. vestibule1443

    vestibule1443 Notebook Evangelist

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    nothing...
     
    vestibule1443, Oct 2, 2008
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    Deathwinger, Oct 2, 2008
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    dont expect too much. i mean, it is a 9800GT in a 15in chassis
     
    plasma., Oct 2, 2008
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  6. Clyzm

    Clyzm Notebook Evangelist

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    It's easy to say that rather than think of a useful answer...

    A lot of people have his same laptop and get much better battery life, it's definitely a cause for concern.

    Can we get a list of services, operating speeds and voltages from CPU-z and GPU-Z? Are you using RMClock to throttle/undervolt? Any overclocks?



    Also, I hope you meant that you have it set to 'power saver' and not to performance as your first post indicates.
     
    Clyzm, Oct 2, 2008
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    never mind
     
    rolled64, Oct 3, 2008
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    What kinda of battery life are most people getting with this model on power save mode or whatever the most battery efficient mode is? I guess I'd specifically be looking at the Sager NP8660 with the lowest processor on there.
     
    PhoenixFlare500, Oct 3, 2008
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    Try underclocking your cpu and/or gpu manually; I'm not sure how good the power save mode is.
     
    Tarentum, Oct 3, 2008
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  10. rschauby

    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    Please be more specific, are you getting 61 mins or 1hr 59 mins? The average is about ~2 hours so if you are getting anything North of 1hr 45 mins I wouldn't worry too much.
     
    rschauby, Oct 3, 2008
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    I get 2 and a half hours with 2 gigs of ram more than him, a 7200rpm drive, and a higher processor (although a 25w one, his is 35w i believe), so I'd be worried if I was him.
     
    Clyzm, Oct 3, 2008
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  12. livesoft

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    I can get 2 hours in power saver mode, browsing internet on WiFi. I was able to play around 30-40 minutes of Crysis on battery, high performance + around 20-30 of Excel spreadsheets, wifi turned on but not connected (and NO, I wasn't in class :p
     
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  13. RaisNBRV

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    power off bluetooth, power off the camera.
    disable the fingerprint scanner (if you dont use)
    also, i obviously get more battery life by having the ethernet cord in and wireless off.
    all that said, including your previous steps and i get a bit over 2 hrs (2:20 sometimes w/ t9500; 320 72k drive; 4gbram; (4gb)turbomem; also, because i'm not sure if it matters, but the 1680 screen, not the 1920)
     
    RaisNBRV, Oct 3, 2008
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