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Offline CG6468

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Got my new laptop machine
« on: August 13, 2013, 11:11:19 AM »
It's an ASUS S56C - DH51, WIN8 (now highly modified by my grandson to appear almost like WIN7), 750 Gig HD, 1600 DDR3. It is one of the few laptops that still have a CD/DVR drive.

It looks and "feels' great!

So far, OK. We'll see how it is in about a month or so.

List price about $670.00; I paid $559.99.


 
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Re: Got my new laptop machine
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2013, 11:22:52 AM »
Do yourself a favor and find a way to monitor chipset temps.

Asus (mine is a G50-VT) makes some mighty fine laptops but they run on the hot side.

I run fedora 19, fedora has a facility that shuts down the PC when it gets too hot. I didn't even know it was getting too hot until I replaced Vista with fedora.
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Re: Got my new laptop machine
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2013, 11:32:35 AM »
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[xxxxxx@shine-localdomain ~]$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +57.0°C  (crit = +110.0°C)

nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:       +101.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
                       (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +2.0°C)
                       (emerg = +110.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +52.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1:       +54.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

As reported by lm_sensors.

I have to use sensors to find the sweet spot on the laptop cooling pad. As you can tell, I need to adjust it.
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- Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wait by the river long enough the bodies of your enemies will float by.
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Re: Got my new laptop machine
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2013, 01:17:36 PM »
It's not on now, but I think my grandson installed something to do that. I do know I can read the instantaneous temperature of things.
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Re: Got my new laptop machine
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2013, 07:47:56 PM »
All my Asus laptops and I have had a few have always had an option in the bios to alert and shutdown if the CPU gets to hot and my last lappy had an option to shut down if the motherboard chipsets got to hot. So I would check to see if you have it in yours as well. Your grandson will know about this and he very well might have set it already.
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Re: Got my new laptop machine
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2013, 07:51:31 PM »
Quote from: biersmythe on August 13, 2013, 07:47:56 PM
All my Asus laptops and I have had a few have always had an option in the bios to alert and shutdown if the CPU gets to hot and my last lappy had an option to shut down if the motherboard chipsets got to hot. So I would check to see if you have it in yours as well. Your grandson will know about this and he very well might have set it already.

Thank you for the tip!
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Re: Got my new laptop machine
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2013, 07:55:41 PM »
Your welcome.  :-)
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Knowledge is half the battle.
The other half is violence!

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The box said: "Requires Windows XP or better." So i installed Linux.

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Re: Got my new laptop machine
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2013, 07:57:48 PM »
Quote from: biersmythe on August 13, 2013, 07:55:41 PM
Your welcome.  :-)

I just emailed your comment to him. He's most likely working tonight, but I'll let you know what he says.  :-)
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