If you use PowerXpress, it wont work in XP. Why use XP when 7 is better?

After been opening up the laptop, now I know why the right side near the power connector is hot, its because that is where SB700 southbridge is located. Even though there is a metal heat shield that acts as heatspreader it isnt enough

I put an old big Pentium III CPU heatsink on it, I cant believe how hot it is. Now I know why they put a big heatsink on the souhbridge in desktop mobo

Socket 370, lol does it matter any socket use here?

I have a things to do to further increasethe battery lifespan, codenamed 'Superleggera' That is not just a fancy name and no go....I'll report in after I done. But not so soon, with my final going for another more week

I choose that name because its lighter physically too

My aim is to get the most out of the battery while on move, when you just browsing the net and do nothing else. So I want to disable/remove some stuff to maximise battery life. But I use dGPU now, I want that 256MB out of my RAM

I don't know, I dont use XP on this laptop. In fact I dont use XP in any of my PC

This post has been edited by Najmods: Dec 11 2009, 05:19 PM

No, I mean I dont use XP anymore. I only use XP and 7, never tried Vista.

I wanted to know, what is the idle temperature of you guys when idle (with the back cover closed I mean)? I want to do collect some data. Mine is 53C for CPU and 57C for GPU in idle, both are idle clock (1.05GHz CPU, 220MHz/250MHz for HD4570) in dGPU mode

Is that on power plug or battery? Does it have any difference in temperature when running batteries or plugged to wall? Mine is on High Performance but highly optimised for battery saving and not use any software including Fusion

Alright, thanks

If you guys wanted to try to save battery further, you could try my untested 'Superleggera' theory:

1) Remove the optical drive.
How many of us use optical drive all the time? With it removed, theoretically there is more air going inside your lappy with back cover closed and the current draw of this drive is 1.5A, it supposed to increase battery life too, I'm testing the former right now, and it seems temperature is only 2-3C higher than with the backpanel removed

2) Disable unwanted stuff, like LAN, in BIOS if you don't use it.
I never use LAN for my lappy so now I disable it. You can disable other stuff like audio if you just wanted to browse in the mamak stall, maybe can further save few more minutes

3) Continue disable unwanted stuff.
I going trully nuts with this, I disable the internal mousepad entirely because I use mouse 100% of the time by disconnecting the ribbon cable behind the keyboard, but this means the L.E.D indicator underneath it won't work anymore. You can disable memory card reader in Device Manager too if you don't use it, and some of the USB port too

I needed help from you guys, I have e-mailed SetFSB developer (even though facing some dumb difficulties at first) and he (we) need RTM880T-792 datasheet, I try to find it but I can't find any.

If anyone have more 1337 Google skill please do help

I done few tests about GTAIV CPU scaling on dual core clock frequency on my desktop, from 2GHz to 3.2GHz, I noticed the average framerate is only down to 20fps from 27fps at 3.2GHz when set at 2GHz. So I done few tweaks on this lappy, as I found out the HD4570 don't have sufficient power to render at high resolution, and you need to disable shader go get decent framerate. This is the setting is the best I got:

1024x480 resolution (it gives widescreen movie feel), if you dont like it 1024x600 will do just fine and lose 1fps average
Texture detail: Medium
Other detail is High except Shadows are off and Render Quality is Highest
View Distance: 15
Detail Distance: 15
Vehicle Density: 15
Shadow Density: 0

If you want more framerate, overclock the GPU a bit, 700MHz core with 600MHz memory will do nicely, and when playing, Alt+Tab to Windows, open Task Manager, and set the GTAIV process priority to Highest

Just for a kicker, I even use onboard HD3200 for fun, it indeed run the games at lowest setting and resolution, not that playable but its not bad either. I surprised it can run it Maybe Acer Ferrari One netbook using Athlon X2 L310 with HD3200 can even play it

Huh? Why do you need to know?

Just an update, with my 'lightweight' modification, I get about 2 hours of browsing time, in dGPU mode! Its not bad actually, I even multitask a bit by opening multiple Adobe Reader and my usual more-than-10-page tabbed browsing using Firefox

What a dumb question. Have you bothered to read?

Nice, but its only slightly faster than 2.1GHz QL-64. But I think it'll save more power on the go as Turion have 3 power planes as compared to only 2 on QL Athlons

Stupid move by ASUS I say, in Newegg they have been using this spec for ages. They afraid of Lenovo G450 I guess

I think it can even support ZM CPU. But its bloody hard to find, and expensive. I found some at eBay but costs as much as RM7XX+ for the 2.4GHz model (the top model is 2.5GHz)

The Athlon in laptop is just the name, it bears little resemblance to its desktop counterparts. Its just a Turion with only 2 power planes instead of 3

ZM carries Turion Ultra name with 2x1MB L2 cache, while RM is just normal Turion with 2x512kB L2 cache

Relax, I'm not bothered with PowerXpress anymore after my lightweight mod, as it can reach 2 hours usage with batteries in dGPU. Like you said, don't expect much from driver update, if the old one works then why upgrade?

Anyone tried Cat 9.12 yet? I'll try after my final exam finished tomorrow

Even you don't see it, I already put a guide how to update BIOS on the first page, its on 2nd post

From ASUS site (if you lazy enough to Google for it) it support up to Turion Ultra ZM84, I e-mailed ASUS to confirm this but they stupidly say don't upgrade the CPU, I asked again I just wanted to know what CPU microcode they supported in BIOS they told the same answer

I'm trying it right now, so far it runs like a dream. Testing 3DMark06 with 729/612 core/mem clock and got 3475 Marks:) There is new HydraVision options in control panel for controllig multimonitor. I'll hook it up to 32" LCD TV in a minute