M14x BIOS A05 released

[Stevenxowens792]

You know what would be really cool.. A modded A01 bios that has increased gpu voltage (already completed) and a lowered CPU voltage (to lower cpu temps a bit). Take some from one side, give it to the other.

[darkfame]

@all - I can't say ive never had the cpu throttle back. The shin-etsu 3 months old now and is about to be replaced with the ICD Diamond for testing. I know I have hit mid 90s without issue and that's without throttlestop. The challenge is that the higher GPU overclocks really eat into the CPU cooling as well. So as you need to lower your bios settings to help adjust to get max CPU performance without hitting that throttle-point. It gets confusing but the bottom line is that if you are going to overclock you really have to watch temps closely.

True, even though they have seperate heat pipes they are both connected at the end and some heat will transfer over too. It helps compensate for heat by disabling CPU Turbo in the BIOS. You loose a couple of frames because of the lower multiplier (20 to 26), but you can easily fix that by doing a safe overclock (700/1000).

[unclewebb]

The nice thing about ThrottleStop is that you can Disable Turbo within the program itself so you don't have to do this in the bios to control heat. There is no need to reboot and change settings depending on what game you feel like playing.

The Acer 3830TG owners are also using the ThrottleStop Alarm feature. They setup 2 separate profiles; one with Turbo Boost enabled and the second profile has Turbo Boost disabled. Based on CPU or GPU core temperature, ThrottleStop can switch profiles back and forth to better balance heat, power consumption and performance.

Does it actually say 130 C in the Intel whitepapers for 2630QM?

I posted an exact quote from the Intel Datasheet on the previous page. The thermal shutdown temperature for all Intel CPUs since the Core 2 era has always been in the 125C to 130C range. They don't recommend running your CPU this hot but they also don't recommend doing a thermal shutdown at 100C. There is no need to do that. Intel thermal throttling is very well designed and can fully manage a CPU that is running hot. No need to turn a laptop off at 100C unless a manufacturer is trying to hide some other weak link in their design. Intel CPUs are very robust.

Edited August 29, 2011 by unclewebb

[coolguystan]

The nice thing about ThrottleStop is that you can Disable Turbo within the program itself so you don't have to do this in the bios to control heat. There is no need to reboot and change settings depending on what game you feel like playing.

The Acer 3830TG owners are also using the ThrottleStop Alarm feature. They setup 2 separate profiles; one with Turbo Boost enabled and the second profile has Turbo Boost disabled. Based on CPU or GPU core temperature, ThrottleStop can switch profiles back and forth to better balance heat, power consumption and performance.

I posted an exact quote from the Intel Datasheet on the previous page. The thermal shutdown temperature for all Intel CPUs since the Core 2 era has always been in the 125C to 130C range. They don't recommend running your CPU this hot but they also don't recommend doing a thermal shutdown at 100C. There is no need to do that. Intel thermal throttling is very well designed and can fully manage a CPU that is running hot. No need to turn a laptop off at 100C unless a manufacturer is trying to hide some other weak link in their design. Intel CPUs are very robust.

That is why I always make sure I get an intel CPU. Amd just doesn't feel like it has the same quality. Just my opinion though.

[mmskate13]

You know what would be really cool.. A modded A01 bios that has increased gpu voltage (already completed) and a lowered CPU voltage (to lower cpu temps a bit). Take some from one side, give it to the other.

This is an amazing idea.

Stevenx basically already did this with the Gaming on Battery setting. Take some from the CPU, and the GPU won't get downclocked. Now imagine this at large scale because of the gpu voltage mod?

only thing i'm concerned about is games such as BF3. I heard it utilizes some of the CPU for performance.