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    Tips to extend battery

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by spybenj, Oct 30, 2009.

  1. spybenj

    spybenj Notebook Deity

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    Hey
    Just wondering who has tips to extender "gaming" laptops battery life.
    i know about undervolting the CPU but what else?
    I know people have got 3 hours out of the 8662, how would they do that?
    Thanks
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    the CPU and Videocard can be undervolted and throttled (performance on demand)
     
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    How do you reccomend doing that? Which tools would be best?
    Thanks
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    for the videocard, people like using Nibitor.

    just make sure you backup your old VBIOS before flashing it with the one you modify.

    and remember to test in small increments and test for stability.
     
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  5. spybenj

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    Ok
    Is there a guide on backing it up? I can do it but I rather follow a guide and not mess up my new laptop by forgetting a step
     
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    Thanks, will notify you again once laptop arrives and I try it :)
    btw your site is nice
     
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    Clyzm Notebook Evangelist

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    Disable your CD drive if you don't use it!

    I've said this before, and I've recommended it to friends. On lower powered laptops it's gotten some of my friends a full HOUR of battery life.

    Go into device manager, and just disable the drive completely so it never spins and looks for a disk.
     
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  9. spybenj

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    kk
    So I'll use
    RMClock
    PowerMizer
    And Ill disable cd drive
    Thanks, how much do you think I can get out of it?
     
    spybenj, Oct 31, 2009
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