G1S-X1 heat control

Due to wanting to keep my warranty I can't bring myself to drill holes in my casing, so I was wondering what everybody else does to keep their heat down. I've done about 80-90% of the vista tweaks and removed the excess bloatware to keep the load down on my processor as well as added 2 more gigs of ram to reach 4gb. I've also got a belkin laptop cooler running but I wouldn't say it's fan is in the most optimal location at the center of the laptop.

Things heating me up are the fact that I am now running on a wireless net connection (no bluetooth running) and that I have my laptop on my fabric couch with the cooler sitting between them getting air circulation.

I find I can't even internet browse for an hour without starting to feel the slowdown running on the high performance power setting. I can keep the heat down by switching back in forth between the high performance setting and the battery saving power plan, but running at that plan is almost as bad as running hot.

Is there ANYTHING software side I can do to keep load down and heat down, or does the processor just naturally run at peak temp as soon as I try to run anything. I gave up on running PC Wizard to monitor my heat due to all the depressing temp numbers, but if you guys need any of those stats to help me, just let me know what you need.

Either way, my computer just can't keep up with long term use. Also the task manager says I run at about 1.25 gigs or more of memory usage most of the time and I was wondering if that is normal for vista as this is my first vista computer.

Thanks in advance for any help or tips.

 

I would suggest several things:

a) I am not sure what the HighPerformance profile does. If it locks the computer to the max GPU speed, or if it has a minimum speed larger than the minimum speed of the CPU, that's bad. In that case you should use a profile that downclocks (uses Intel SpeedStep). You could e.g., install RMClock and use that to control your frequencies, it is more transparent (albeit more complicated) than Power4Gear. See my Tips and Tricks for a guide on how to set it up, you should then use the Performance on Demand RMClock profile.

b) Use the notebook on a hard, flat surface. If possible.

c) Try cleaning the heatsink and fan of dust. There is a generic guide on the Info Booth, and also a G1 disassembly guide I believe.

Vista memory usage is normal, it is due to SuperFetch (wiki/google for further info).

 

I wouldnt use a G1s on my lap haha, these things get warm... I want my fertility to rest another 30 years or so

anyway, if its the cpu that gets so warm, you can underclock (RMclock is really handy to undervolt AND underclock)

No idea what you should do bout the gpu to keep it cool, but I think software exists for that...

 

My CPU now mostly idles at 38°C and my CPU is always at maximal performance (2.20GHz) without downclocking. How I did this? First of all I undervolted my T7500 using RMclock this lowered the CPU temperature AND I took my CPU-compartment cover off and my G1S is standing on a zalman notebook cooler.. so the cold air directely "touches" the CPU.

 

a moveable laptop on your lap with underneath a zalman+ open (be sure to keep dust out!) panel doesnt seem so handy to me

 

Your lap will be nice and cool...
No, ok for moveable use this isn't the best solution undervolting will help a little bit..
And the G1S just isn't a great laptop for mobile use (bad cooling).

 

I have the G1S sitting on top of my Zalman notebook cooler.

CPU temp averages at 44 degrees, GPU averages at 63 degrees, hard drive averages at 41 degrees.

 

I had a 1000H eeepc for web surfing but had to return it due to a defective screen panel. I will be getting an N10J-A1 as a replacement.

As stated, the G1S doesn't move from my computer desk anymore. I have it turned on 24/7 since I use TVersity to stream my video files to my PS3/360.

 

Just a brief note, technically the fact that your CPU runs very cool is still not a good reason to always run it at full speed. You still won't need that speed more than 5% of the time during desktop work.

Of course, when the temp we are talking about is 38degrees, though, the point is academic, i.e., entirely irrelevant in practice.

 

Thanks for all the replies.

Undervolting is probably going to be my next step, but I did notice one thing that was mentioned in the Nvidia video card problems forum, and I was wondering if anybody had anymore insight on it.

Basically when I've had my computer running for most of the day, I find I have about 10 or more instances of svchost.exe running. Since this is my first computer with multiple cores I thought it may be part of how they run, but now I'm wondering if it has to do with my vid card or drivers. Anyone know any more on this?

Also, what would be the latest drivers on the 8600M card, and is there anything I would need to know ahead of time to install them since I've never used the laptopvideo2go website.

Thanks again

P.S. My idle temps are 60-65C, and my internet browsing with multiple tabs open in Opera brings me to about 83-90C, probably higher if I tried to push it again.

 

I have 9 instances of svchost running at this moment. It believe it is normal, as svchost is the "container" within which many (all?) Windows services run.

How about this:

About lvideo2go, you need to know that installation of the driver requires the modded inf. See the driver installation instructions on their website for further details.