touch the upper right side area near the hinge and the place u plug in the adapter
other areas are NOT hot at all except for that place
scroll back few pages for confirmation of the temp.....

but apart from the heat the performance is REALLY AMAZING
everything is fast and very responsive using Vista without any tweaks
installation of Windows was a breeze
gaming was great with the 4570

apart from the heat the only other thing i can think of is the short battery life...

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Added on July 17, 2009, 3:21 pmyes tweaking is fun
but gaming will not be fun with the heat.....
u'll have to think of innocative ways to cool it down or else u can't game for long....

This post has been edited by sordanny: Jul 17 2009, 03:21 PM

p8600 p8600 p8600
GIVE ME RM6K NOW!!!!!


good luck with your tweaking
pls write a guide if heat is down drastically

not to 'pour water' but after changing to an intel t6500 here are the temps without using zalman
idle 43
cpu 100% 63, very occasionally spike up to 70 but will drop in split seconds (for 1 of the cores only, not both cores)
movie 56
gaming 86, very occasionally spike up to 90 but will drop in split second

using zalman
idle 41, lowest 39
cpu 100% 60, lowest 59
movie 55, lowest 53
gaming 83

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Added on July 17, 2009, 4:03 pmthe intel discrete gpu not as powerful as the 4570 but IMHO the temps are just too high to be comfortable with.....


This post has been edited by sordanny: Jul 17 2009, 04:03 PM

yes even 45nm core would be at that kinda temp when gaming for LONG periods
actually i feel K40AB is more responsive even though the specs are comparable except for the gpu
the big advantage of intel obviously is heat emissions/disbursement even under stress
hopefully AMD will come up with better heat solutions when designing their phenom2 for laptops
myself is actually an AMD fan....
all the desktops i owned over the years had all been AMD........
too bad AMD failed me this time around when coming to laptops

yes laptop and desktop is very different
desktop in terms of the heat u can basically ignore it or invest in a water cooling system if u're really into oc
but laptop don't have that kinda luxury.....
zalman is among the most expensive at the moment i got mine for rm280

in a desktop it doesn't but in a laptop it does
cuz 65nm design emits use more power and so end result emit more heat
in msia we're still ok but in middle eastern 40++ 50 degrees weather i think they'll all have to use their oc'ed laptop in a cold room


and damn talking about middle east i'm going there tomorrow night

gosh i hate to go there this time of the year

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Added on July 17, 2009, 5:55 pmyea the 80+ to 90 was after 4 hours of left 4 dead including roughly 1 hour on pause for dinner
so this time around my brother left home a happy person


This post has been edited by sordanny: Jul 17 2009, 05:55 PM

nop those are not arabs
i guess with those habits u're referring to yanks or europeans

yea well something i think asus forgot about when designing the K40AB..........
most probably at the design stage it was during end of last year when it was winter in taiwan.......

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Added on July 17, 2009, 6:00 pmwell just brace yourself when the 'heat wave' comes
lol

This post has been edited by sordanny: Jul 17 2009, 06:00 PM

ok guys i'm gonna off soon
will be going to tai thong jln imbi to enjoy the best of malaysian food while i'm still here....
tomorrow until next week no more all the amazing food we have
haizzzzzzz