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Sager 5760 Heating Front

post #1 of 9
6/21/07 at 3:17pm
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I just bought a new Sager 5760 with a 2.16ghz Core2, a 7950, and 2Gb of RAM . Is it normal for the front of the laptop to get quite warm in front of the touch pad when idle, and hot when gaming? My TV Tuner card is under there, and that is where the RAM fan blows toward. I've tried disabling the TV tuner, but it is not noticeably cooler. Thanks.
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post #2 of 9
7/7/07 at 3:48pm
I don't know what you mean by "very warm" but the laptop is designed to dissipate heat through the keyboard and that area seems to be the hottest part so presumably it's normal.
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post #3 of 9
7/9/07 at 9:07am
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The touch pad area and down towards the audio dj gets hot even when not gaming. I think it's probably normal though. I cool pad cools it right up, but I was hoping not to have to use one.
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post #4 of 9
7/10/07 at 11:08am
Are you running Vista or XP?

One thing I've recently noticed and I don't know if it has to do with bad sensors but the graphics hardware seems to recognize Vista as a 3D app (Aero interface) and runs the graphics card at full speed continually even on battery. This explains why the battery life in Vista sucks compared to XP.

A solution I've come up with is to use a 3rd party tweaking tool like ATiTool or Riva Tuner to forcefully step down the graphics card speed when not gaming. This has the added benefit of being able to underclock the GPU down farther than the normal built in low power mode. You would have to experiment to find the lowest stable settings.

This would definitely cut back on heat and power use.
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post #5 of 9
7/10/07 at 3:02pm
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I am running XP actually. Thanks for the tip though, I'll be sure to look into that when I upgrade to Vista.

This problem though isn't related to the graphics card or cpu heat. This is all the way in the front of the notebook on the touchpad keys. It's above the TV Tuner (I am going to try taking it all the way out instead of just disabling) and also in the path of where the little RAM fan blows out the front.
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post #6 of 9
7/11/07 at 9:26am
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Removing the TV Tuner has made a world of difference. The warming is barely noticable now (before it would seriously get HOT when idling). After an hour or gaming it gets moderately warm in the front, but nothing like it did when the TV Tuner card was there conducting the heat right to the top.

My 7950 GTX idles at 35C, so I don't think I have to worry about underclocking it. My brother has a Go 7800 GTX so I know how much heat you are probably having to deal with in your 5720. I'm glad they dropped the wattage from 65W(7800GTX) to 45W(79X0GTX). That's for your help Woody, I'll see what temps I hit in BF2142.
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post #7 of 9
7/20/07 at 10:59am
Sounds good. Yeah the 7800 was a heat monster compared to the 7950. The performance is still good though so I'm not upgrading until something better than an 8800 is released. I am hurting for dual core but it can wait. These things are too expensive to buy every year! LOL!
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post #8 of 9
8/7/07 at 12:40pm
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Yeah, wait for a 9800M on 65nm or something; the 7800 is almost is fast as the 8700M. The desktop Geforce 9's will be released this winter, so mobile versions might be out summer or winter 2008.
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post #9 of 9
9/6/07 at 11:48am
I can still run most of my games very nicely on the 5720 so I agree that holding out for a major GPU performance stepping is a wise choice - except of course for those who are insanely wealthy ;-)

Dual core CPU would be nice now though.
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