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bought an Acer 7720 with a NVidia 8600m gt |
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Saturday, 15 January 2011 |
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 My saga is set to continue, I have just bought a new 7720... Doh! ( I
know this may seem daft but I have a good reason)
I realised that if I have to sit down and reinstall all my applications
on Windows 7, configure each and every app that I use (I do CMS web
designer/vintage electronics/legacy o/s support - so I have hundreds)
then I might as well kiss goodbye to the next two weeks while I sit
swapping CDs and trawling the net for installation zipfiles trying to
get the new machine to act like the old.
I know that if I take my existing drives and slot them into another
7720G it is likely to boot without much of an issue. I use XP and my
software / configuration is based around XP (for legacy support of some
design apps.) so the new machine needs to be XP too. The fact that I can
can just get the new laptop running without having to do all these
installations is a real boon to me. I also found a few companies selling
some NOS Acer 7720G.
So I bought one...The new machine is the same spec. it just has the
NVidia 8600m gt which is a faster GPU and on some forums it appears that
this GPU does not have the overheating problem. We shall see, I may be
lucky.
Having said this I am going to get some quality thermal paste, will
monitor this page for any mods you may do to get the fan working more
efficiently and I will re-implement the external fan change I made to
the old laptop to improve the cooling, I can do it easily by swapping
over just one cover.
I will have a fan monitor running from the outset. I will clean it
religiously every month, will throttle back the GPU when it is not
required and try to keep it from overheating in the first place. I have
an active cooling pad and it may well come into play again.
If I told you of the problems I have had ordering from a well-known Acer
supplier and the rudeness of their staff, the rude and unhelpful
pre-sales people at Acer, it would put anyone off buying their products.
I am still kicking myself for taking the plunge and buying another Acer
but I do have a good excuse.
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