Universal notebook power adapter for NP8130

Hi everyone,

So I was reading Mr.Mysterious' review (btw thank you, it was great help) of the NP8130 and when he showed the size of the brick-sized power adapter... I was like "holy-#%!#$!!!!!!"... anyways

So I'm wondering if anyone have bought a third party notebook power adapter that is compatible with NP8130???
(that is smaller than what Sager gave us)

Thank you,

EDIT: Ah crap, I believe I posted this in a wrong place. T.T Sorry!!!!!!! MODS, redirect this thread to appropriate location please and thank you.

 

When you have a GPU with the TDP of a 460M/560M/485M/6970M you will need a 120-180 watt PSU. What you are asking for is impossible.

This claims to be 120W but I don't know as there are no other specs.

http://us.kensington.com/html/6330.html

Looks are deceiving too, it looks small but it's almost a foot long at 10.75" and 2.5" is thicker than our current adapter.

7.25" x 2.5" x 10.25"

 

hmm I see, thanks.

So does that mean that the 120W power adapter that comes with the NP8130 isn't going to be enough? Well I'm assuming they are able to handle it... but I guess it wont if I overclock anything in the laptop. (I doubt I will overclock anything right away tho)

 

I don't know what you are talking about. The 120W adapter is made fro the NP8130. The 180W adapter is for the NP8150. The 180W adapter is the reason why the NP8150 can support the GTX 485M and the 6970M.

The NP8130 is designed for the 120W adapter and works perfectly fine. You can't overclock sandy bridge processors by any conventional methods. The GPU can be overclocked easily.

 

But you definitely can use the 180W Adapter that the 8150 uses, and if you want, you can put in a 485M in your computer with that.

Mr. Mysterious

 

OMG I just realized I have a 120W Kensington, size wise its smaller then an iPhone, I don't have an 8130 with me to try it yet though

However its worked brilliantly on other laptops.

Those dimensions you listed was the size of the package it comes in not the product.

 

Before you use it on a machine, you'd have to check not only the wattage, but the DC output it can do. You'd have to make sure it can do DC output 20V, 6A or it may not work correctly (It didn't see to be listed, even on the tech specs for that charger)

 

For some reason I don't trust something that small. It either has much higher power efficiency or it has reduced safety features and less power regulation (large quality Japanese capacitors would not fit in the Kensington). A professional PSU tester would need to compare the two.