Paid the down payment for a 1645 through a Digital Stuff SA, was told that i'd be getting it within 2 or 3 weeks, but eventually after 1 month only they contacted me and said that the unit is ready to be collected. Requested for a refund of my RM300 deposit since they didn't deliver as they promised. At least getting the refund was a quick and painless experience, so not that pissed at them as before

On another note, i wouldn't mind them sticking to the old GPU. Would prefer if they like, rearrange the heating vent position so that it wouldn't blow the hot air at the screen. Not keeping my hopes high though...

Where is Dell Studio XPS 13? I didn't saw it at Dell Malaysia website ...

Just checked. It's still there

@Fantasia

One thing about the Zalman NC2000 is that you must use it in an air conditioned room to utilize it's full aluminium body.Without air con,it does cool but not by very much...however when used in an air con room(let's say 22C),you'll see some nasty drops in temperature.It's like giving your laptop a cold pack treatment-it's that cold

gpu,processor and hdd all drop?? or just hdd drop?? coz i heard some1 who using cm infinite on his sxps16, hdd drop by 1'C only...

This post has been edited by Fantasia: Feb 26 2010, 11:27 PM

Zalman NC2000 cooler meets Studio XPS 16

Condition of room
Small room with either fan or air conditioner(blowing away from laptop)

Condition of laptop CPU=C2D P8700 2.53GHz,RAM=3GB 1066MHz,HDD=320GB 7200RPM
Idling,running only HW monitor and GPU-Z and other background processes
CPU usage at constant 12%
Ram usage at constant 38%


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EXPERIMENT 1 :Without air conditioner usage(only fan)

Situation 1
Without cooler

CPU=38,GPU=54,HDD=38



Situation2
With cooler

CPU=34,GPU=49,HDD=35



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EXPERIMENT 2 :Air conditioned room with constant 22C temperature

Situation 1
Without cooler

CPU=40C,GPU=52,HDD=38



Situation 2
With cooler

CPU=32,GPU=46,HDD=31 can bring this down to CPU=28C,GPU=42 if experimenting for longer hours



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1C was deducted from Processor and GPU temperatures because of the increased processor usage when using screen-snap programme(Sniping Tool)


p/s : These temperatures are still higher than what i normally have because i haven't run this machine for a longer period.The lowest average temperatures i got before were CPU=28C,GPU=41C,HDD=30C

Here's the screenshot


My honest opinion:
The Zalman NC2000 works best when paired up with an air conditioner.Looking at the temperatures, it doesn't fare too badly when used in a non-air conditioned room.The high quality materials used in the production of the NC2000 pretty much helps a lot in heat dissipation and aiding air-flow.And yes it's pretty cold due to its full aluminium body Definitely worth the RM229 i paid or could i find any better ones?

Another note:Will update temperatures of full CPU and GPU load

This post has been edited by -kytz-: Feb 27 2010, 06:17 PM

reserved for gaming temperatures

Guys, any idea how to max CPU load at 90%++ ...was thinking of burning music/video cds

u can try to fold ^^ cpu sure 100% all the time while gpu 99-100% all the time ^^

program without Intel® Core™ i7 optimization

converting 2000kps 20FPS RMVB file





Enhance performance with Intel® Core™ i7 optimization

converting 15000kps 30FPS Full HD 1080p MP4


with Intel® Core™ i7 optimization the performance really stable n amazing
guy any other application program with Intel® Core™ i7 optimization ?

later test Resident Evil 4

remember to contribute ur RE4 benchmark here

what's fold?

I also see that in your siggy

http://folding.stanford.edu/

Seriously i have no idea what programme is that?

Biology class in action?

Basically contributing your processing power for research

....folding are off topic bro ..just giving some heads up before someone give some warning ...

If u noticed in that page, i did a review on my new Zalman NC2000 for idling temperatures.I asked around for any programme which can give full CPU and GPU load and therefore, Fantasia recommended me Folding.

Then i asked what's fold?So it's not really out of topic

This post has been edited by -kytz-: Feb 28 2010, 07:03 PM

@kyte i'm afraid further discussion about folding might cause any trouble so y dont u read up here and pm me ,mia, lee or astria if u find any difficulty during ur reading. http://folding.stanford.edu/

This post has been edited by Fantasia: Mar 1 2010, 04:56 PM

guys, I did notice this a long time ago, but maybe I've mistaken. is there such a thing that a virus or a program that can activate the webcam and send the pic to any remote server? i mean without the user's knowing.

I sometimes my webcam LED flash not more than 1 second and it happen totally random...

I am paranoid already and for now, putting a post it note to cover the webcam...

Disable the webcam when not in use ...well, that one always the problem and that's the beauty of a webcam with LED, you can see if your webcam is on or not ...

i am not using it. disable as in what? go to the device manager?