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post #1241 of 1526
4/23/05 at 2:19am
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Originally Posted by kuno
CIao Fratello!
Hi All, First post for me.

My note is a 1714smi, 2Giga Ram 120ATA
I clocked it at 3400@3650Mhz ( I need power for 3dsmax)
Gpu 499/689 ( Quadro 1400FX forced)
Very Sable.

Cpu temp In max Load: 69'
Hd temp :59'

Bench: aquamark 30542.

The notebook is fantastic! 2x 3dsMax7 in Render + photoshop 8 + acad2005 + Realviz Image Modeller, and I can work well !


Opening the bottom of the pc, I noticed that the CPU is installed without any dissy!!??! Only direct air flow from the fan. Is this Correct? Can I use a copper dissy?

Last: I need a software to rise up The Vcore ( +0.5 and the the will work fine at 3700/3800MHz) but i Can't find it.

Rockberto: I'll try to find where to buy the uj-840, I'm interested too.

Hi all. Maxx

Kuno may i ask how in the world did you get that graphics card????
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post #1242 of 1526
4/23/05 at 1:20pm
The Vcard is a FX 5700go 128M ( default )
With Softquadro I used quadro FX 1400 drivers ( 3ds max in same bench goes 3 times faster!)
The normal core is 350/580 @ 399/689.

Looking the bottom of my pc I can see the cpu, and there is no dissy on it, is it normal?


Maxx
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post #1243 of 1526
4/23/05 at 1:21pm
Sorry!!!!!! 399mhz not 499mhz!!!!!

Maxx
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post #1244 of 1526
4/23/05 at 7:43pm
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Originally Posted by kuno
The Vcard is a FX 5700go 128M ( default )
With Softquadro I used quadro FX 1400 drivers ( 3ds max in same bench goes 3 times faster!)
The normal core is 350/580 @ 399/689.

Looking the bottom of my pc I can see the cpu, and there is no dissy on it, is it normal?


Maxx
Oh , I though you USED a Mobile Quadro FX 1400 (the card not the driver)
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post #1245 of 1526
4/26/05 at 4:28am
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Originally Posted by kuno
I Use CPUFSB ( part of CPUCool)

The Pll is: ics-952623

Maxx
Does anyone know what the settings are for the 1712 smi since the above information is for the 1714?

P4HT 3.0Ghz

I would like to experiment for both performance and slowing things down for battery preservation (get those few extra minutes), I've figured out how to activate the PowerMizer settings on the nVidia 5700 (it gives a bogus error about the wrong video card, but I got about a 20% increase in battery life from it at the cost of a 50% performance hit) since I use it about 3x a month on a comparatively short 2 1/2 hour flight.

I would like to see the following information:

Mainboard Choice
Mainboard Type
PLL Manufacture
PLL Type

The help file for the aforementioned program is minimal, so any help would be greatly appreciated in hardware information, and settings to use.

Thanks in advance.
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post #1246 of 1526
4/28/05 at 12:04pm
You are going to have better results if you buy another baterry...
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post #1247 of 1526
4/29/05 at 5:11pm

Finally

I've got my labtop back after 6 long weeks of waiting and a lot of phonecalls with Acer. Well not my 1711 smi but a brand new Aspire 1801 wsmi. After 2 days i'm now getting used to the widescreen, but hard to find good wallpapers and not optimal for playing games. But the quality of the screen is so much better (looking), it's got a more shiny surface, just like the Sony Vaio. The specs are almost the same compared to my "old" 1711. P4 2,93 Mhz Prescott (Pitty, cause old one was a Northwood), 80 Gig HD, 533 mhz, ATI radeon X600 128 mb, Bluetooth and bla bla bla. But the best thing is the weight, it's 4.5 kg. Another strange thing is that Acer installs XP with Fat32 and thus splits the disks in 2 partitions??? Well, i hope this one will work without any troubles for the next few years Oh, i've had a talk with the manager of Acer Support about a complain letter i wrote. (A little reminder, my 1711 was away for it's 4th reparation in 5 months and therefore they decided i would get a new labtop. But twice DHL ****ed up, so it seemed later, the delivery. Maybe it was a corrupt employee of DHL???) A long story short, as a compesation of all things that went wrong i also got the 3 years extra guarantee for free.
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post #1248 of 1526
4/29/05 at 10:02pm
I have been using my 1712 for 7 months now. I fried a 512 MB ram stick which Acer promptly replaced. The other issue I had was that I had to do a system restore after a failed Nvidia driver installation corrupted the whole thing. Overall I like the notebook but my only complaint would be noise. Does anybody know what to do to reduce the speed of this 3 Ghz HT Northwood CPU? Oh...another thing...are you 1712 owners aware that this gorgeous screen does not actually produce truecolor 8 bit per pixel depth. Instead all we get is 6 bpp good for only 262k colors. The manual says that the screen has 16.2 million colors, which is mathematically impossible. I think the chip that produces the color uses advenced dithering to trick the eye. Cheap!
Acer 1712
P4 HT 3 Ghz 800 FSB
1 GB Ram
120 GB 7200 HDD
Nvidia FX 5700 Go 128MB
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post #1249 of 1526
4/29/05 at 11:35pm
Hey Kuno,

Any chance we could get a mini-tut on how you did you quadro mod???
I've really been wanting to try this mod, nut I'm a total newb
as far as driver/card mods go...(call me a lamer, but I'm getting a headache trying to
figure it out on 3dguru..)

tia maxx

g
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post #1250 of 1526
4/30/05 at 12:27pm
Kuno,
I also run Max 7.0
When you say that Max runs 3 times faster when using the Quadro drivers, are you talking OGL or D3D? D3D is way faster than OGL anyway, I wonder if you get 3 times better performance on both API's.
If the Quadro drivers make a huge difference, could you provide a link for downloads and installation. Grazie e auguri!
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post #1251 of 1526
4/30/05 at 1:59pm
Anyone purchased the Nvidia GeForce FX Go5700 128mb card from Acer. What is the price now? Is it worth the money.

I do photography and am getting into the digital world with the purchase of a Fuji S2 or S3. I edit and manipulate a lot of images.

Thanks again, all answers in the past have been very helpful
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post #1252 of 1526
5/3/05 at 10:58am
HI, yeh i bought the 5700 128mb to replace the poor integrated graphics on my 1711sci. I obught from the company that supplies acer in the UK and it cost me £180. It's a really easy install, but awkward to get the three screws in because the heatsink of graphics card actually covers the screw holes, so you cant get the buggers in. A bit fiddly but can be done. I'd say it's well worth the cost, afterall, could barely play Carmageddon 2 on the integrated and now i merrily play doom 3 on high.
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post #1253 of 1526
5/4/05 at 12:10pm

whats the biigest card can i get for my acer

whats the biigest card can i get for my acer aspire 1710 or 1711 1712 they are also known as i already have a 128mb gforce fx 5700 but think ths is holding the laptop up is there a 9700 or another geforce that will fit in from another machine my laptop has a 3gig p4 chip with 512 ddr400 and ive tried installing the latest nvidea drivers but dont seem to work im using the windows xp driver and it seems to work well
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post #1254 of 1526
5/4/05 at 12:16pm
when i bought my laptop it didnt come with a battery and ive been running it on the last couple of years an ac its great i got rid of my bulky desktop with all the wires everywere does anyone know what model laptops use the same battery so i can get one its just handy if there a power blackout thanks
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post #1255 of 1526
5/4/05 at 7:50pm

DDR400 not supported ?

I have the 1712 and just upgrade the memory with OCZ PC-3200 DDR400 Enhanced Latency 1GB (2x512MB) Dual Channel Kit CAS2 (OCZ4001024ELDC-K) but CPU-Z memory timing shows 166Mhz instead of 200Mhz and FSB ratio of 5:4 instead of 1:1. I know that there is previous post about this but I don't remember if there is any resolution. Anyone have DDR400 installed and can verify that if it is running at full speed. Thanks.

Steven
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post #1256 of 1526
5/4/05 at 9:19pm
Anyone know where I can pick up an AC adapter for my 1710? I've checked everywhere online and even with Acer (backordered). My Acer is dead until I can find another. I will pay top dollar for one if someone will sell me their backup.
Thanks
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post #1257 of 1526
5/5/05 at 1:06am
ive seen lots of acer adapters on ebay for sale
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post #1258 of 1526
5/5/05 at 4:07am

Quadro..

Hi, Sorry for long time response (and my english.......)

For quadro drivers.. I'll give you a link soon ( I'm not well organized, I'll find them in a lost disk somewhere.....)

D3D drivers are not optimized for Quadro, so you must use openGL.
With the 3dsmax bench, the results are incredible, I'll post the page with a comparing report soon.

Maxx
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post #1259 of 1526
5/5/05 at 7:04am
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Originally Posted by unic
I have the 1712 and just upgrade the memory with OCZ PC-3200 DDR400 Enhanced Latency 1GB (2x512MB) Dual Channel Kit CAS2 (OCZ4001024ELDC-K) but CPU-Z memory timing shows 166Mhz instead of 200Mhz and FSB ratio of 5:4 instead of 1:1. I know that there is previous post about this but I don't remember if there is any resolution. Anyone have DDR400 installed and can verify that if it is running at full speed. Thanks.

Steven
What's your BIOS firmware version?
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post #1260 of 1526
5/5/05 at 8:31am
The AC adapters for the 1710 are quite a bit different than those listed on eBay. Its a 4 pin din 19V 180watt adapter.
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