Rustican's Review: Acer Ferrari 4000 - Page 6

The reason the notebook knows what the temps are is the same reason that your car knows how hot the engine is running... there are thermostats.

My notebook never gets below 45 degrees C. If it does, the fans all turn off until it's above 55 C, then they turn on again. When gaming, I've gotten almost to 90 degrees C (89, if I remember correctly). That's with no OC.
I've never OC'd (I've never done drugs either).

-Ransom

Pretty sure there is no thermostat in a laptop, but thermal sensor yes..

Anyways, Im working on a 4006 for a client and the fan seems to run rather fast and loud when its first started and cold. It sounds like the high speed mode when my laptop heats up. When I first setup the 4006 I don't remember the fan coming on so strong when it was cold, any reasons for the fan to run continuously like that?

I'm changing the OS over to 32bit.

I installed amd powerNow, but there is no icon in the control panel, are there settings you can adjust? I installed the dashboard and things seem to be working alright, but the fan is still LOUD.

Has anybody tried installing cool'n quiet? or ss that for desktop mobos only.

BlueTooth problem

When I install the blueTooth driver it says no device found but you can continue with the installation. In devicer manager it shows an Acer Module as an unkown device when blue tooth is enabled, so Im assuming the driver did not load correctly. I have no blueTooth device to test it, has anybody else had to reinstall the blueTooth driver in XP Pro?

Got the bluetooth to work, found a suggestion in a diff forum to use drivers from a different acer laptop, and they worked.

The 5.0.1.1200 Bluetooth drivers for the 8204 WLMi appear to work on the Ferrari. The Ferrari uses Broadcom's Bluetonium 2035 single chip solution. The 81xx had the same chip.

https://www.synapsenow.com/synapse/d...TM8200_BTW.zip

Benefits: Widcomm BT stack = a lot more features (i.e. BT Internet sharing). If you want to surf the Net on your PDA by sharing your notebooks LAN this makes it possible.

Enjoy!

Love digging up old threads, lol. I have a question. If I use RMClock to undervolt my Ferrari 4000 is there a way I can backup the settings so that when I format I don't lose everything?

Edit: I didn't realise I would only have to remember 2 numbers, sorry.

ALSO: I got my Ferrari set to: 0.925V - 1.325V and its survived Prime95

I can feel it getting cooler already

Is it(rmclock) bugged, it shows cpu core at 2000mhz at idle, and AMDclock shows 800mhz.

Also, is there a fix for the clock jumping around under load? I thought I saw something but haven't been able to find it.

Fan noise really is a problem with this machine. At my office we have now bought four Ferraris, because we think it's an excellent machine in other ways. But as the fan noise problem is still not solved, and especially Acer support do not care at all, we will now buy other machines in the future.

Are you speaking of the latest Ferrari model? It is normal for them to run at a low speed at idle.

Make sure under power options that you have portable/laptop selected. With other options the processor may not idle down and then fan noise would be a problem.

Questions

I am not willing rather wishing to purchase this machine. I belive that its getting obsolete now, anyhow I want it.

Please tell me, can I use it as desktop replacement?

Like I attach my 17" Monitor, old keyboard and mouse with machine, when I am using it in my home and just put it in bag when go out side? If yes, then Please tell me that does connecting external monitor cause any problem? Does it reduce performance? as VGA now have to support two display at a time.

HEAT, I just threw off my desktop

2.8 Ghz HT
1GB Ram DDR (440Mhz or so)
120 GB SATA around 7000 RPM
Nvidia Fx-5200 (128MB)
Lan, etc

That used to get hot and was not reliable at all, I tried everything on that, but never fixed any problem. I remember maximum was 80C, inner temperature of processor and maximum for overal was around 60C.

So I was just wondering about 70C issue, I live in Pakistan and its prety hot here. Can I play BF2 or C&C Zero Hour continiously for long time?

Will it cause any hardware problem, if I play too much, while my machine is getting hot. Will it cause to melt down rubber near touch pad?

If I get it some how, I will try not to mess up with its looks. Rustican after one year or so, does your machine looks odd now? you were talking about that some kind of color was getting off from keyboard?

I am very rough user and it will be my first LAPTOP, I am in habbit of keeping my machine 24-hours a day on, I have WiFi setup already installed and willing to use that too.

What does that silver box do? that Acer shows during its virtual tour, saying that Acer-Ferrari 4000 can be used as desktop replacement?

Can I change the VGA card, RAM, HD ? TO X1600, 667MHZ, 7600 RPM?

what does that PC Card SLot do? What kind of cards can be fixed in?

Please also send one notification on colagent@gmail.com or mr.syedrizwan@gmail.com as I am willing to have some more information, regarding this machine. I was basically interested in Acer Aspire 5670, and was reading its reviews, so just got an idea to read its reviews too, people were not happy with heating problem of that system. Please tell me that does performance goes down when it heats?

I was just wondering that it has got only 1MB chache and Memory speed is only 333MHz, how can it compete with computers having greater chache and greater memory speed and having 7-Series Nvidia.

I have seen some old notebooks, they have native resolution, if you adjust lower or higher resolution, other than they are designed for they will mess up with resolution and will not show good results, is it the same case with Acer Ferrari too? IF yes? then what is the best resolution for it, I belive that for 15" screen more than 1024*768 resolution will be difficult to manage.


My total budget is $1250. I think I will be able to have it.

Thanks In Advance.

We are using Ferrari 4005. Using Notebook Hardware Control, I can see that CPU is running at 800MHz. The fan is running on the first level. Problem is that even on the first level, the fan gives far too much noise.

The CPU temp normally is around 43C, so the fan do not have to spin as fast as it does. But there is no ways to slow it down that I know of.

We have four machines and all of them have the same annoying noise levels.

I love it

My 3400 has been my desktop replacement at work and home for a little over a year now. Im a consultant/tech/programmer and I use in the field as well. The guys i work with got me hooked on WoW and I play atleast 2hrs a day on the Ferrari. I usually have it on an aluminum stand or cooling pad at home.

I setup a 4005 for a lawyer and I noticed the fan ran continiously, but I didn't find it to be an annoyance and the lawyer did not complain either. I suppose it depends on ambient noise and how sensitive you are to it.

Thanks for your suggestions, but here because of its looks Ferrari 4000 is still around $2000 from original Acer dealer, so I wonder how expensive 5000 would be, I never heared any such name in local market but found out on internet, YES Ferrari 5000 has got X1600 and better speed ram that, but looks like 4000, that is why I was thinking that it might be possible to upgrade 4000 series to 5000, here is another Ferrari 1000 in market, but that is too expensive for me, that is around US $2500 here, and will not like smaller laptop with external CD-Drive, thanks for your advise, I will see if I can find nice price for 4005, that is commonly avialable here.

I do'nt konw one thing, here people often says that ACER Ferrari is not good, I am talking about sellers, when I talked to them they were more happy in seeling DELL or any other brand than ACER, they were also disgracing local brands,

In Pakistan we have two or three local brands too. Named As Raffels, inbox etc.

Still one month to go, so just wondering what to purchase, a person from whom I have been purchasing desktops for around 10 years, and have replaced 5 or so Desktops is happy with Acer, he is basically Acer Dealler over here.

He also suggested me Acer Aspire 5502-ZWXMi. He said that it is cheaper choice to go for, as it has got ATI-X700 but I have found out that this card has got 64MB ram. But he can proivde me system for around US$650.

Any body has some idea regarding this computer? Just thinking, as mostly ferrari users are proud, happy and satisfied with their system.

I am really sorry to ask, But I don't know at all, as I am too new in Laptops. What is cooling pad? how does it look like and is it any electrnic device? or just a stand or what? what are the positive and some negative points of that pad. I will request you to teach me undervolting once I purchase it.

and Can any one tell, roughly? how fast/strong or how slow/weak it will be in comparison of my older desktop.

2.8 Ghz HT
1GB RAM DDR
1M Cache
Nvidia Fx 5200 (128MB)
120GB SATA

Please to tell me; I will be grateful.