Hardware HP Pavilion 14-N060TX, Intel 4200U With Nvidia 740M
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 Dec 19 2013, 02:50 AM
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Bought this today.
Everything is good, my only complaint is the weak wifi card or antenna. seems like my old laptop can surf the net faster. I wonder if I can swap them  Anyone else got upgrade the wifi hardware? |
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Dec 21 2013, 12:07 AM
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QUOTE(cacat99 @ Dec 20 2013, 02:58 PM) where u brought it and what is the price? RM 1869, Navotech (Stygix) in Melaka.any promo? or package come with? planing to get 1. Thanks   LOL, I just realised I depend a lot on the "options" key, normally to the right of the space bar. unfortunately this notebook omitted the button. -edit- I just found out two-finger tap will bring out the options menu  This post has been edited by PaulReedSmooth: Dec 21 2013, 04:27 PM |
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Jan 4 2014, 11:50 PM
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QUOTE(-kytz- @ Jan 4 2014, 10:21 PM) Can you guys please download any benchmarking software like unigine heaven or 3d mark? I experienced loud fan noise during gaming.My laptop fan speed is incredibly loud when benchmarking and this is quite unbearable. Not sure if this is a defect and if so I definitely would wan to get an exchange. And also once during a certain driver/software update, which was strange. Can't recall what driver/software was that. |
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Jan 4 2014, 11:58 PM
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QUOTE(-kytz- @ Jan 4 2014, 11:53 PM) Oh damn, was hoping that I was the only one experiencing this really loud fan noise during gaming *sigh* In my exp, using cooler doesn't really improve the fan noise level. Maybe just a little bit.Anyways, does it help if you use a notebook cooler? I usually position the cooler fan closer to the left, where the air intake is This post has been edited by PaulReedSmooth: Jan 4 2014, 11:58 PM |
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Jan 22 2014, 12:56 AM
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QUOTE(-kytz- @ Jan 21 2014, 04:43 PM)  HP Service Centre called me up and said that my laptop has been fitted with a new exhaust fan but the problem is still there. He did also say that it's quite "normal". Le Sigh. Just have to live with it I guess, will collect it back tomorrow and replace the HDD with a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD and upgrade the ram to 8GB. I've upgraded to 8GB since day one. Dun like to make frequent visits to computer shop .Recently upgraded to win8.1, windows update got provide the latest driver for the f12 "flight mode" button. One thing i noticed is the power brick does not get hot at all, means it's quite efficient. So far so good with this laptop. |
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Jan 22 2014, 01:02 AM
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QUOTE(briantwj @ Jan 22 2014, 12:06 AM) Have any1 tried playing PES 2013 on this laptop? On medium setting can run smoothly? Will bottleneck since it is onli dual core? I play F1 2012, moderate settings. When gaming, the palm rest wont heat up too much right? Running softwares like Netbean and Eclipse then compiling and debugging codes will lag? The air vent is on the left side, but it generally doesn't affect the keyboard and palm area. Maybe just slightly warm towards the leftmost area. The fan does get noticeably loud when gaming. Can't guarantee, but I'm sure programming won't be a problem. Just upgrade it to 8gb to future-proof. |
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Jan 27 2014, 11:02 PM
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QUOTE(-kytz- @ Jan 27 2014, 06:33 PM) Anyone has burned a set of 6 recovery discs already? bearbear PaulReedSmooth fastreader dadurtyz CHEVELLE_84 the HP recovery software is damn shitty.It takes so freaking long to burn 1 disc, about 1.5 hours, so 6 discs will take around 9 hours  I'm burning the 3rd disc now but I want to settle my laptop stuff by tonight so I'm thinking of going to lowyat to grab my SSD and RAM first. Question is whether I can stop the process halfway and continue to burn later on? It'll be a disaster if I have to start all over again or that the process fails.  It only burned for me 1/6 part. When I inserted a new DVD to continue to 2/6, it just won't continue. It just displays error. I tried to do it three times. Now I have three pieces of DVD containing the same 1/6 part  |
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Jan 27 2014, 11:26 PM
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QUOTE(-kytz- @ Jan 27 2014, 11:10 PM) That's funny, I'm on Disc 4 now, no issues so far except for the long waiting time and noise. I'll just give up on the recovery disc, and pray nothing happens Btw, I just discovered that it's difficult to replace the HDD as you need to remove the entire exterior to gain access to it. Not as user friendly as other laptops where just you need to unscrew 2 screws at the back plate to expose the HDD. Will get someone to do it for me tomorrow.  Ya, it's not very service-friendly. Only ram and wifi module can access easily. I downloaded the service manual pdf, i think the hdd is somewhere beneath the right palm area. My previous laptop, I used to take out the whole heatsink and clean the fan and reapply thermal paste once in a while  |
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