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I know this is primarily a laptop forum, who can pass up a "minor" update to a nice desktop though? EDIT: Didn't even see custom worklog forum, mod please feel free to move.

When I first started working on ThrottleStop, I spent months abusing Dell in the forums as I discovered one throttling Dell laptop model after another. They got so pissed off with me informing their customers about some of the shit they were shipping that they banned me from their forums to shut me up. I was honored! Do you know what? All the bitching finally paid off. Dell got their shit together and with the laptops they've designed during the last year, you rarely hear about any throttling issues. It's not impossible to build a high performance laptop that can run at its rated speed. I thought other manufacturers would learn from the lessons that the user community taught Dell but they obviously haven't. There are too many new Sandy Bridge laptops running way too close to the thermal throttling point at 100C or being prematurely throttled to prevent hitting this limit. I was helping one user with a Sandy Bridge Mac Book Pro that he was trying to run Windows 7 on. He was struggling to run his CPU at 50% load. The cooling solution was so bad that this load alone was enough to trigger heat related thermal throttling. He wasn't doing any severe stress testing. He was just trying to play a simple game but that was causing more heat than his laptop was designed to dissipate. It's a sad world. The typical consumer has no idea why the performance they paid for can't be used because of bad design. They take this and never complain so laptop manufacturers are more than happy to turn out more of the same. Put shit in a fancy box and make it look nice and they know consumers will lap it up.

for best wifi performance I would recommend the netgear wndr3700 router running OpenWrt. I am constantly getting 8-12 Mb/s wireless transfer rates

Some more testing is showing that Acer is using CPU throttling to cool their new Sandy Bridge laptops down because they cheaped out on the cooling solution. So far, Acer, HP and Asus are all pulling shit like this with some of their new Sandy Bridge laptops. While gaming, the Core i5-2410M in the 3830TG first turned off Turbo Boost and dropped from 2700 MHz down to the default 2300 MHz. That's crap but 30 seconds later it's a real kick in the balls when it drops down to 1200 MHz and stays there. Frame rates go in the toilet after that. No use waiting for a bios update because this is just bad design. They are depending on consumers to be stupid and to put up with a new Sandy Bridge laptop that runs at less than half of its Intel designed speed while gaming. Finally a chance to use the smiley that shows exactly how Acer is treating their customers.

I just bumped into this: [email protected] It appears to solve Crisis flickering issue for CF 6970 Ichime give them ago too Cheers

I ordered from hidevolution so no EDD yet (unless I'm missing something?).

Ordered Alienware M18x Custom Built to Order Nebula Red Anodized Aluminum Intel® Core™ i7 2720QM 2.2GHz (3.3GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB ... Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon™ HD 6970M - AMD CrossFireX™ 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz (2DIMMS) 750GB 7,200RPM SATA-II HDD Intel® Ultimate N WiFi Link 6300 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO Techno ... VIZIO XWH200 Universal Wireless HD Kit with Internal 60GHz WirelessHD Transmitter Internal High-Definition 5.1 Performance Audio with SoundBlaster MB Software 4 Year Advanced Service Plan

too bad for Acer...the laptop design is very poor, the throttling issue is a direct kick in the balls to customers

This really sucks, definitely a poor design by Acer. I don't have a lot of experience with their systems, but I was working with a 8943g a couple of times (first gen i7, on-board 5850m gddr3) and it run seriously hot while gaming or doing something similar, not only the thermal diodes, but also the surface of the system. According to these stories it seems to be a common issue with their laptops. Simply unbelievable... and I thought it shouldn't be a too big of problem to keep a SB chip cool enough to run without throttling.

I call this a crazy defense strategy... I guess she doesn't have to pay all the fines when she's metally illy... But I'm not a law expert. Anyway, who needs filesharing networks as long as there are online filehosters... Over here, downloading is totally legal, only uploading is punishable.