lukione

on a desktop I had 2-4 degree improvment in temps after changing thermal paste, I think that it is too much effort to change it in notebook unless you have to dissasamble it in other reason

1 last question.. can I remove the god forsaken gpu limiter when running in battery? i want at least be able to play games at low settings on battery.. the gpu limiter essentially makes this laptop a portable desktop

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if anyone survived switching the socketed cpu then i will be buying a i7 xteme edition cpu for this laptop and a medal for that brave lad XD

It is impossible to play on battery at full GPU power.

I used it for couple of months on desktop with ClassicStart implemented and IMO prefere Win8 over Win7. It works much faster and in everyday experience is far more stable.

Bought today some Acer 20V 7.9A supply, gonna check if it runs with 650m SLI config. Also found out that when battery is charging my GPUs are downclocking in Splinter Cell Blacklist, when set GPU to max performance it hangs with blue screen