Khendon Sevon
Apr 27th, 2006, 09:57:21 PM
Upon receiving my HP NW8240 I smiled. On paper, it’s a respectful little toy. We’re talking a Pentium M running at 2.13 ghz with 512mb of PC-3200 DDR2 at 533mhz. Mesh that with it’s fun ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 and it’s packing enough punch to play some decent looking games at alright settings.
My school supplied them. Every freshman gets one.
Very cool, right? Wrong.
Personally, I would never have chosen HP. Why? Because HP is partnered or owns Compaq and that’s who makes their laptops. I had a Compaq. They’re relatively evil.
A few weeks after the smiles came the frowns. These things have serious heating issues. In the middle of a video game or moderately intense sessions (running trillion, music, opening a browser, opening a setup file) craaaash. Try to start the laptop up again? Nope, it needs to cool off before it’ll even load up the bios.
Cooling pad, great solution! No. Doesn’t help.
The laptop idles at 800mhz at 64 degrees Celsius. That’s not bad. The step style technology is relatively fast and can rev up when needed.
To test how horrible the cooling system is I loaded up a copy of Sonar 5 Producer Edition. It’s a piece of music editing software that’s not known for being easy on computers. I opened up one of my projects and ran it.
Alright, full 2.13ghz running, nice, 86 C, not too bad. Uh oh, the temperature keeps climbing? No. No! NO! Nooooooooo!
Yeah, that’s right, about 20 seconds of play and the processor reached 100 C and started having major issues. No chugging along, more like crawling for its dear life.
If a laptop is advertised as having a 2.13ghz processor, it should be able to actually use that processor without it dying, shouldn’t it?
/End Rant.
Anyone have any fixes short of setting up an industrial fan next to it? ;) Evil laptops, cooling is for desktops!
(I could under clock it, but then I'd cry)
My school supplied them. Every freshman gets one.
Very cool, right? Wrong.
Personally, I would never have chosen HP. Why? Because HP is partnered or owns Compaq and that’s who makes their laptops. I had a Compaq. They’re relatively evil.
A few weeks after the smiles came the frowns. These things have serious heating issues. In the middle of a video game or moderately intense sessions (running trillion, music, opening a browser, opening a setup file) craaaash. Try to start the laptop up again? Nope, it needs to cool off before it’ll even load up the bios.
Cooling pad, great solution! No. Doesn’t help.
The laptop idles at 800mhz at 64 degrees Celsius. That’s not bad. The step style technology is relatively fast and can rev up when needed.
To test how horrible the cooling system is I loaded up a copy of Sonar 5 Producer Edition. It’s a piece of music editing software that’s not known for being easy on computers. I opened up one of my projects and ran it.
Alright, full 2.13ghz running, nice, 86 C, not too bad. Uh oh, the temperature keeps climbing? No. No! NO! Nooooooooo!
Yeah, that’s right, about 20 seconds of play and the processor reached 100 C and started having major issues. No chugging along, more like crawling for its dear life.
If a laptop is advertised as having a 2.13ghz processor, it should be able to actually use that processor without it dying, shouldn’t it?
/End Rant.
Anyone have any fixes short of setting up an industrial fan next to it? ;) Evil laptops, cooling is for desktops!
(I could under clock it, but then I'd cry)