"all clocked between 2GHz and 2.1GHz and dissipating 55 watts of heat"
Umm Yea... I would take that statement with a grain of salt as my current HP Dv7 Laptop with an AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Lion is hitting temps up to 220 degrees before shutting down. I even have a USB powered chill pad and it still runs hot! I sent my stove top, ohh I mean laptop in to HP to be serviced and was told that the fan and heat sink were repaired.
When I got it back it hovered around 130 degrees and I was pleased with that, however as of this post and only having it back a week I am running at 166 degrees with spikes to 190 from time to time. Now I could say that it might be a shitty design on HP's part, but I just got my wife a new HP Dv6 with the same specs as mine 2.0 Ghz, 4gb of ram, Vista 64 plus all the bells and whistles with only a couple of differences... She has a Core 2 Duo T 6400 and it runs a chilly 80-110 degrees!! Her case also has 8 vents compared to my 4 =(
I bought this model with the AMD processor because I have always had Intel and figured I would give the bargain basement brand a try. This will be the first and last time. Guess you get what you pay for. I plan on calling HP back and bitching with the hope they will swap out the cpu or give me a different model altogether.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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"all clocked between 2GHz and 2.1GHz and dissipating 55 watts of heat"
Umm Yea... I would take that statement with a grain of salt as my current HP Dv7 Laptop with an AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Lion is hitting temps up to 220 degrees before shutting down. I even have a USB powered chill pad and it still runs hot! I sent my stove top, ohh I mean laptop in to HP to be serviced and was told that the fan and heat sink were repaired.
When I got it back it hovered around 130 degrees and I was pleased with that, however as of this post and only having it back a week I am running at 166 degrees with spikes to 190 from time to time. Now I could say that it might be a shitty design on HP's part, but I just got my wife a new HP Dv6 with the same specs as mine 2.0 Ghz, 4gb of ram, Vista 64 plus all the bells and whistles with only a couple of differences... She has a Core 2 Duo T 6400 and it runs a chilly 80-110 degrees!! Her case also has 8 vents compared to my 4 =(
I bought this model with the AMD processor because I have always had Intel and figured I would give the bargain basement brand a try. This will be the first and last time. Guess you get what you pay for. I plan on calling HP back and bitching with the hope they will swap out the cpu or give me a different model altogether.
"Fingers Crossed"