I wonder what the jitter is like, and weather its affected by revving up a power tool on the same electrical breaker

Might as well post an update :^) I have long given up on laptops as a primary workstation. For reasons of: - Lack of IPS Displays - non-upgradable graphics, very few dedicated GPUs in thin & light, usually comes with a loud fan - coil whine, coil whine, coil whine - a lot of creative stupidity in ne...

Why not offer people a free PCI-E SATA6 device instead of recalling the boards? Wouldn't that be cheaper for them?

Let the customer choose which option they prefer

I don't know how to calculate this. I'm wondering how long I can run a 500 Watt load (430Watts + 12V inverter inefficiencies) on a decent car battery. First of all, I guess I need the amp-hours rating of the car battery (can't be derived from cold cranking amps I'm assuming) any suggestions (other t...

zsero wrote:I think you cannot. I always put the black micro-fibre cloth between the display and the keyboard, to save the display from marks when transporting.

I thinking some hard plastic might do the trick :/

Yep, it is it's biggest problem. I think while USB 3.0 is not implemented in the Intel chipsets, it will not be widely available in battery time oriented laptops. eSATA on the other hand would have been possible for a few penny more at the factory. Yeah I just noticed myself that this laptop doesn'...

Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy to have hard drives sleep (particularly in laptops)? I mean, in my experience, it's just gonna spin right back up again 5 seconds later for some random windows function or other background application. I can appreciate the usefulness of HD sleep on a system wi...

Is there no coil whine on that motherboard?

I've got the same Asus board (except it's not the "-E" version) with a Core i5 750 and I've got noticeable whine, however I "fixed" it by disabling Intel C-State and Intel Speedstep in the bios. Gives me 10C higher on idle, but hey, sanity is well worth it.

That's a nice read. I've been thinking of making my own writeup about laptops, relative to coil whine, poor panel quality, and strange choices in bad touchpads and keyboards design (not to mention the rarity of high end graphics in compact notebooks, even with the emergence of hybrid/switchable grap...

Okay so I just got this (the Radeon 5470 version). Thus far I agree with whats been said. I take back my worried about the screen. It's average, but not really annoying so far, could deal with this easily. As for the noise, the fan seems smooth ... 2 fans + (I'm assuming 2 heat sink assemblies) is a...

dunno if it will be enough, but thermaltake makes a fanless notebook cooler that is a pad that has some wierd salt substance that turns to liquid when heated ( so as for the liquid to flow around the pad and make the heat distribution more even) you may want to look into it. If nothing else it's a g...

3 years after I created this thread, I'm still annoyed as heck about this problem. about 70% of the laptops I've tried have coil whine, including brand new 2010 units. I don't think enough people care about this issue for it to be a priority for any of the motherboard designers. Just me and a few ot...

Yes, AUO322C. There is very small selection of display manufacturers, and they really don't differ that much. I can't tell a difference between the 1280x800 display from LG of my previous 13.3" Toshiba, compared to the current 1366x768 AUO display in Acer. All 13.3"'s are TN, so there is no good la...

Can you post the display hardware ID or whatever? As shown here (this is for my dell 2209WA, for reference only) http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/659/clipboard01vs.png Also, any coil whine? Also, any distributors in north america? EDIT: we have a version in Canada with i5 ati 5470 for 699$ on sale...

NoNoise wrote:Well I've found a temporary solution to the whine-noise.

Simply play a random sound on repeat in Windows Media Player (Could be a silent MP3).

It completely silents the coil whining and only puts minimal stress on the CPU

thanks.... doesn't work for me though.

Here's some "whinecandy" for you
Gateway ID49c (futureshop)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QdC9eDnMfk&fmt=35

Pending return/exchange.

the main issue is is that I need to use the old trick to eliminate motherboard coil whine on a i3 laptop. the RUN HLT command trick.

I used this:
http://www.flipfire.net/download/rtcore64.zip

to get RMclock's signed x64 driver to run in windows 7. Unfourtunately I don't think it supports Core i3 Cpus.

I need something to do the "RUN HLT COMMAND" so my stupid laptop stops whining!!!!

there's threads out there on how to get i8kfangui working on vista/win7

Maybe those will help, if they work.

yes, I'm also very angry at the number of low-quality display panels recently. Especially low-resolution panels, it's really hard to get a HQ low resolution panel for easy reading :cry: More importantly, laptops dont avertise the type of panel used. I've returned 3 laptops in the last 3 years due to...

Processor: Intel i5 750 Motherboard: Asus P7P55D Pro Power supply: Antec CP-850 Graphics card: Palit GTX260 216 Electric noise: Yes, unsure of the source. Fix for electric noise: Seems to be fixed by disabling all the CPU power management settings in the bios (C-state stuff... turned everything off)...

I think the case looks pretty nice to me from the outside... simple, black elegant. Open front airflow. Perhaps the reviewer has racing stripes on the front of his case

Old thread bump... anyone notice how mediocre the screen is on this netbook? I can't seem to get over it, its quite unspectacular and the higi ppi doesnt help....

I'm considering an rma and hope they have more than 1 panel supplier....

added note.. I used some thermal adhesive on one of my CPUs, then I tried to 'test' the bond strenght and lifted the cpu right out of the socket without the lever lifting up.... :oops: so that's why ur not supposed to do it *facepalm* Well, needless to say, if you use thermal adhesive, have a second...

What kind of brick are you _supposed_ to use with the PW-200-M then?

And will the Dell one work okay for the picopsu xt 150?

After reading this

viewtopic.php?t=44283&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

I'm gonna go with picopsu lol..

What isn't rated for 18A? The 3 12V leads i stole from an ATX connector?

Is there any reason someone would choose a PicoPSU, instead of something like the PW-200-M (200 Watts)?

I need something small for a 45W AMD build.. I'm guessing total system power will be around ~90 at load.

I'm gonna use the Dell Y2515 with modded connector.

Canadian Shipping --- 36USD$ ..... *clenches fists*


Can't they stuff this in an envelope?

Any coil whine based on cpu load? I've got some on another 1156 Asus Board, the P7P55D PRO. I've been too lazy to determine the exact location of it, just running my fans higher to drown it out :roll: I have the feeling this will come up eventually and I'll need to get creative... Also, what about b...