Posts by mfractal

Quote: Originally Posted by zzpulp I've never seen my GPU fan RPM fluctuate much above 4100 RPM with or without i8k controlling the fans. I thought these fans could only operate on three discrete levels to be honest. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by zzpulp Well it can't do that from what I understand. Its the actual system BIOS that Dell is offering. It is what controls the fan speeds so that the fans turn on sooner. The GPU BIOS would...

here's the link http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38611/135/ I've checked the bios upgrade page for 1710 and didn't find a new bios. Does anyone have some more info about the issue ?

I just cleaned the dust off the fins one week ago, so they should be clean...

After reading a lot of debates about vista/xp etc i've decided to check it out. I've been running XP since i got the note (vista was preinstalled but had so much troubles back then that i didn't even bother to fix it). So now, after a...

The bios definitely has an option of disabling it.

That raises a question. How often do you guys clean your note ? I cleaned my note 2 months ago last, and yesterday when i saw that the temps of the GPU are climbing to 95 in mass effect, i decided it's time to clean again. So i opened...

I am interested in comparing GPU temps while playing COD4 @ 1920x1200.. My video settings are AAx2, and everything else on normal. Yesterday while playing the GPU reached 96 degrees. I went down to 1440x900 and the temps stabilze...

Do you monitor GPU temps ? It might be the GPU as well...

You are probably right, BSPlayer version that i am using is 2.24. CoreAVC is 1.7. I'll try to update to 2.28 and report back. Thanks a lot!