Posts by warrenzhai

You should try to switch to the Notebook power profile (instead of the Always On option). My experience has been that when you are using this profile, the laptop is normally silent considering how quiet the harddrive is. So long as you...

Congratulations on acquiring the Echo Indigo IO, guitarded . How do you like the card? I personally have a pair of Sennheiser 600 which I am currently running through my desktop's M-Audio Revo/Marantz 2215.

Wow, this is great news. Can you post some pictures so I can do the same with mine? I am getting a bit annoyed by the noise. Do you also know where is the 2nd memory slot? I can only see one expansion memory slots. I would like to...

The small hole to the left of the touchpad is the microphone. I haven't tested whether it works, but it's quite neat. My last laptop didn't have one of those.

We all seem to have laptop coolers for those portable graphic powerhouses. Mine is the Vantec Lapcool. It only has two fans but keeps my ECS 556 relatively cool. Now the ECS fan rarely turn on even when I run it at the full speed of...

BTW, those are great pics

Pardon me for asking, but why are you using a great pair of earphones with a Creative soundcard? You would be much better off with an Echo Indigo or one of the external M-Audios

Does any other owner of the g556 suffer from a constantly hissing soundcard?

"what is the different between g556 and g551 else than video? and which is better, value-wise?" That depends on your needs. If you hope to run the next generation games then g556 is the obvious winner. Otherwise g551 is a...

I run tons of software and compile/debug code all the time, so the laptop switches over to 1.4ghz even under normal use. I will report back once I receive the vantec lapcool.