1420 noise

Well I just received my 1420. Fairly impressed with it thus far. I have an AUO screen , but overall it's pretty good. Slight bleeding and the vertical viewing angles are not the best (certainly not like my good ol' inspiron 8600). However, it's not even close to some of the horror stories i've read about the AUO line, so I'll be sticking with it.

My fan noise appears to be reasonable; however I feel that even when the fan is off, the system is fairly loud. It appears to be the HDD. I have the 120 gig 7200RPM. I've read some of the issues about 'clicking' and changing the acoustic settings, but I'm not sure that clicking is the issue. It just appears to be a low, constant noise.

So I’m curious of other opinions about their 1420 noise levels. A lot of the reviews read "The 1420 runs extremely quiet", and I’m not so sure I agree (at least with mine).

Thanks!!

 

I have two laptops at the moment, as I tried to exchange mine for another, and just received another AUO screen. I have a refurbished SEC screen in my original and its worlds better. Ill just send back the new laptop. Anyways, the AUO screen sucks really bad. Go to a store and look at what youre missing out on. Reading PDF files led me to headaches from the over bright blue tint and the grain. Same thing with microsoft word.

The newer laptop came with a Toshiba drive, the one I have now has a Seagate. The Toshiba is quieter but also is slower.The Seagate has like a springy sound to it when its really chugging along. The Toshiba has a soft click, but benchmarking with HDTune showed about half of the burst rate as the Seagate. Benchmarking on PCPitstop.com showed about 10 mb/s difference in uncached speed. This also is using the same laptop, switching out harddrives to improve significance. The RAM in the new laptop is also Samsung, and the original is Nanya. Also the motherboard cpu molex connector is different, leading me to believe there was a recent motherboard revision. The antennas are also different within the screen. The newer ones get approximately -93 DBm of noise next to a g router. The older one gets about -87DBm. Not a significant difference, but I understand the revision nonetheless.

Any other questions, just PM me and Ill get back to you.

sOnIc

 

Thanks for the info. I have a Seagate HDD now as well.

Are ALL AUO screens not up to the standards of the others brands? is it even possible to get a great looking AUO? or are you just speculating that i will notice a big difference when i go the store?

 

I have 120G 7200RPM drive. It is louder than my D620. I believe the D620 is just a 40G 4200 or 5400RPM. The faster the drive it, the louder it will be. I think it is normal.

 

I would like to chime in on the fact that my AUO screen on this 1420 is absolutely terrible. There is no way that I'm keeping this notebook.
How is it terrible? It is grainy like you would not believe, and I don't even care about grain usually. Viewing angles are bad. Just looks like a typical cheap-asterisk part.

I wouldn't pay more than $650 for a laptop with such a screen. I paid $900, so back it goes.

 

Thanks for the help. Mycgarage - I believe my old inspiron 8600 had a 40G 5400RPM as well. I guess I shouldn't really be comparing noise levels.

Once again, has anyone received a good (or tolerable) AUO screen? I certainly think mine could be better, but i wouldn't call it terrible by any means.

 

for sure my auo screen is not the best(1440 x 900), but it is not terrible either. I looked at Macbook Pro 15" that has 1440 x 900 screen. Pretty much the same spec as my 1420 except Mac has 5400 rpm drive(worse than mine) but a better video card. The screen is gorgeous on that. However, the price tag for that one is $2500, which is almost $1400 more than what I paid for my 1420. Therefore, I have no complain considered how much I paid for my 1420. Also, I rarely see any 1440 x 900 screen in retail stores. So, I can't really compare.