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Gaming/heat on a macbook

post #1 of 8
7/31/06 at 6:52pm
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Greetings to everyone in the macbook forum. I have an Acer 8204(yah I know, had i known boot camp was coming, I would have bought a macbook pro). The 8204 has the same specs as the macbook pro, same graphics card etc.

How does gaming fare on the macbook? My friend has it and I see that the vent is right beneath the screen. I know when I play some intense games on my 8204, the heat is blasting pretty strong.

I think I"m going to wait for the 3rd generation of macbook pros, maybe in a year and a half.
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post #2 of 8
7/31/06 at 7:02pm
i bet the graphics on your acer are actually better, b/c apple seriously underclocks the card. naturally gaming take a hit with that.
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post #3 of 8
7/31/06 at 7:37pm
First, they don't "seriously" underclock the card.

Second, the card can be upclocked to it's factory speed with the ATI tools in Windows.
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post #4 of 8
7/31/06 at 10:55pm
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
First, they don't "seriously" underclock the card.

Second, the card can be upclocked to it's factory speed with the ATI tools in Windows.


lets not get with a coulda, shoudas.....because just as well i can argue you can O/C the acer (by OC i mean put it higher than default Acer setting...which is essentially the same thing you'd do on a mac to make it break even by upping the default apple setting)
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post #5 of 8
8/1/06 at 12:35am
OC the acer wouldn't be the same as upclocking the card on the apple machine. OC would bring it past the cards default, while upclocking on the mac would bring it to the gfx cards default.
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post #6 of 8
8/2/06 at 6:30am
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mmm, interesting. Thanks for the comments guys.
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post #7 of 8
8/2/06 at 11:56am
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
First, they don't "seriously" underclock the card.

Second, the card can be upclocked to it's factory speed with the ATI tools in Windows.

Ati Tools didn't work for me. Kept on locking up and rebooting the laptop. Using Apple Drivers with ATI Tool .25.
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post #8 of 8
8/2/06 at 5:26pm
Try changing the drivers.

I think the, what are they called, Catalyst, drivers will work.
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