Posts by gollum

For minimal .7v@600mghz For maximal .988v@1.7mghz For max, I came down from 1.34v, sizeable diff. I am mostly on minimal for surfing,dvd,email etc......my fans hardly on now.... The default sony config had...

Here is the link to the thread.... http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=70943

For those of you looking for a more aggressive fix for the fan noise, try using the Right Mark CPU utility. This will allow to change the voltages put to your cpu. This greatly reduced my idle temp. At full bore "always on"...

Yeah, the newer one is not as "sexy" as the one we have. When I looked at the new one for the first time I thought that something might have changed with the power issue, at first glance it seems larger than ours, but it is...

just 2.....3 with the port replicator. Just another misleading website from Sony....However, I have 0 compllaints about this laptop. The 2 machines are identical in every fashion inside and out. Makes you wonder why they bothered to...

PLC: yeah I thought sony did something about it when I saw the different power adapter. Nope...it the same output as the one we got just a different shape, personally I like mine better. The fan noise is identical. We took each one apart...

The same issue exists in the 270 as well. Verified myself at a side to side comparison.

Actually, there is a program offered by ati that does throttle the gpu it is called powerplay.

I have had a chance to compare the 170 to the 270 side by side. They are the same machine. Not alike....but the exact same. The fan noise is identical. The part numbers for these machines are also the same. The power adapter is shaped...

Sony s170, 1.7,80gb54K, 1gb ram, 9700 64mb Latest Omega Drivers AA- off Vert synch- off all other settings on low medium high ultra 640x480 43.7 42.6 35.1 ...