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    P150SM EC Mod?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by BlueKingMuch, Apr 16, 2014.

  1. BlueKingMuch

    BlueKingMuch Newbie

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    Hi Guys,

    yesterday my ordered Nexoc G513 (P150SM with i7-4700mq and GTX 780m) arrived, and I did some testing about the Fan Noise, especially in Idle/Low Load.

    I've set up Win7 and installed all drivers.

    Booting it, the fans are off. If a Cpu goes to 50°C, the CPU Fan turns on and cools the CPU down to 38°C, where the Fan turns off. And this is Repeating.

    I don't know Why Clevo didn't set the temperature offsets a little bit higher, I'd set 65°C instead of 50°C for turning on the Fan and 55°C to turn off, so in most Cases at low cpu load, the fan would keep off.

    It seems that I've to update my EC to a newer one, maybe i've a old Version.

    What my question is: Has anyone tried to mod the EC by itself? Personally I'd mod the temp offsets to make the p150sm silent in desktop/Idle/Surfing mode.

    BR, Michael
     
    BlueKingMuch, Apr 16, 2014
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  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Keeping components cooler reduces failure rates, so it's always a trade off.

    The EC is coded into the keyboard controller and is not easy to work with.
     
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    Ok i could understand this. but the TJ Max for an haswell i7 is 100°C, so I barely think a temperature rise to 65°C would do some huge differences to reliability.

    What does not easy to work with mean exactly?
     
    BlueKingMuch, Apr 17, 2014
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    It means it's using a non standard language I believe and you cant program it while the machine is on.

    As a general rule of thumb I was taught for electronics was that for every 10C hotter parts run you can expect their failure rate to double.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 17, 2014
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