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I guess we have to repaste our lappy , hopefully they dont void our warranty for doing so .

Any recommendation of what cooling pad should i get for my vnitro? Since the vent is behind tho? Any recommendation at least to push some fresh air inside?

I just went to Acer Service center this morning to ask regarding on switching to IC Diamond TP. They say they have to refer to KL whether can change or not, unless using their own thermal paste yes.

This post has been edited by ValityMental: Apr 13 2015, 09:55 AM

Hey guys, anyone hv experience with Acer service centre, for screen problem, u think they can fix it on the spot? they keep spare parts stock for such repair? Tq

Wow. I thought most laptop now comes with locked BIOS so you can't do those undervolt stuff already. Good to know that software can be used

May I know what is your config for your Acer ? 4720HQ + gtx960m + 8gb ram + 1tb HDD ?
If your Acer is the old model, gtx860m + 4710HQ, your temperature is definitely too high. You're even in an air condition room. IIRC, in aircond room, your temperature will be <85 for gpu and cpu.
Do a benchmark. Do it for about 1 hours. See what temperature you get for your CPU and GPU. If it is stable it should be around 80-85 or even lesser.

P.S: You may consider other thermal paste like GC Extreme. I heard that it is better than IC Diamond.

software to do undervolt stuff?

i tot wanna take risk and buy this notebook since my notebook burn after i do 3D rendering.. damn phenom burn my mobo till smelly

after see review here. i feel scared better i go for other notebook. too bad, no Dell in kuching. else i will buy dell

This post has been edited by pandera999: Apr 13 2015, 04:45 PM

Yea that's why I feel amaze lo. Cause what I know of is need to access BIOS features to tweak the settings. Well last time MSI Afterburner do have features to undervolt or overvolt your GPU. I think now still got.

I think they just get lemon unit. Other Acer user seems very quiet didn't complaint much. It is still the cheapest tho. haha

3D rendering require good CPU tho, if you're doing intense work, better get desktop or other CPU. I believe 4710HQ or 4720HQ can't handle intense 3D rendering well.

You can try Lenovo but then the screen is just, no. Asus has a similar laptop but theirs is single fan. Not a bad design choice because Asus has good thermals but a bit on the riskier side. I personally didn't go for Asus because of my friend's experience with the customer service. For Dell, you only have the Alienware sporting this graphic card. That i5 U processor might be a bottle neck to the GTX860M though and even when you buy that added box for desktop graphic cards, the processor is a surefire bottleneck for those as well. Their 'home' laptop I think uses GTX850M but you get touch screen for the same price as GTX 860M 4GB variants of all the Lenovo, Acer and Asus laptops. I would suggest the Illegear Z5 but you live in Kuching. If there's a problem you have to go back to KL. But this is, in my opinion, the best laptop for GTX860M. You can customize to your heart's content and budget and as an added bonus, there's a keyboard shortcut for maximum fan speed if you're THAT worried. If it weren't for warranty and it's overall super flashy design, I would have gone for the Illegear myself.

The laptop is fine actually. Maybe the Cities: Skylines game is a bit too demanding. Sims 4, Heroes of Newerth, Sims 3, Microsoft Flight Simulator, SimCity and everything else runs perfectly fine (no throttling). When I limit my frame rate for Cities: Skylines it takes much much longer to throttle but throttling is still there

IIRC, gtx860m is not good in open world game. Your game is quite new tho. Try lowering your AA or don't use it.

The one i have is 4720HQ with GTX860M rather than 960.

If gaming 80+/90 consider safe?

Well, the Tmax for the CPU is around 100 Celsius, you be the judge.

Link : http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7...r.132361.0.html

i just did repaste from the centre.
The problem is still there. Im starting to think that it is the fan. When running games, the fan wont run 100 %, i cant hear it as loud as when i use rweverything and set the fan to max and play.With rweverything, the fan was so loud like a small jet. Then the temp was good, GPU in the early 80c. Though i still need to test it more.
I just hope it can stay like this. The way Acer program the fan, i dunno, maybe not aggressive enough?

ya.. i had make my dsktp portable

there is illegear shop in kuching. quite surprise. but not sure where is the location. saw few local seller sell it here though. i do often fly to kl.. but, once more.. not for vacation. had few meetings need attend and fly back

i'm think just build desktop right away. for few months.. then resale again

It is safe as long as it is <90. If anything >90 it is like MSI GE60, which can be consider having heat issue already. gtx860m shouldn't be that hot, can you double confirm your GPU is maxwell type and not kepler ? Maxwell will be cooler.
Acer V Nitro shouldn't reach 90 mark, cause last time user reach about 80-85 only.

P.S: I'm glad my Z5 is one hella beast in cooling, the max I get is 69 degree C when playing COD AW and BF4. It is not in air-cond room somemore. (but with max fan)

Since Kuching got service center, then can consider ILLEGEAR lo. Z5 is quite good actually. At least its cooling is a proven fact.

use these 2 months, sell following months wonder who will buy it. i'm not into much games though since busy and cant play every games. i want but then i have no time for my work after immerse wif da game.. me gg liao.. work abandon .. gonna look for mid-end like dell 7447.. might consider acer nitro but heat issue will be a big matter to me

VN7-591G-73A2:

Can add any SSD in addition to existing?

I recommend you it because it got better CUDA core and i7 quad core.. Well I got your point, maybe the resell value is not as high as Dell since not much people know of this brand.
Just make sure you got a i7 quad core or abv + min 8gb ram. Preferable 16gb if you're doing some intense high texture sh*t modeling. haha
I personally won't get laptop to do intense rendering job. It is a waste of money