Acer 8371/3810 Owners Thread

roger_37 · 28 Nov 2010 at 13:25

IceWind said:
Im really considering getting something like this for day to day use

good choice nice laptop.

haz_pro · 28 Nov 2010 at 14:47

ARGH, am sitting in the library right now, laptop not plugged in, and the fan is on at 31c! Bloody thing hah.

I thought it was meant to come on at 50.

tbz_ck · 28 Nov 2010 at 16:18

I can't get MSI Afterburner to "Accept" GPU overclocks. No matter what I'm doing it stays at 450/600 and doesn't move.

Any ideas???

T

gunners2k · 28 Nov 2010 at 18:03

Got one of these. Great laptop, need a fresh install though, I hate vista. I shall do this in the upcoming weeks.

Methanoid · 28 Nov 2010 at 18:08

Any owner able to confirm the size of the Wifi card fitted in the 8371? Is it a full size "mini PCIE" card or a half size one?

haz_pro · 28 Nov 2010 at 19:58

tbz_ck said:
I can't get MSI Afterburner to "Accept" GPU overclocks. No matter what I'm doing it stays at 450/600 and doesn't move.

Any ideas???

T

Do you mean it just doesnt give you the option, or it gives you the option but wont save?

If it doesnt give you the option you need to change a 0 to a 1, in the config file for afterburner.

If it doesnt save, well then your in the same situation as me which i yet to solve.

cokecan · 29 Nov 2010 at 00:38

Methanoid said:
Any owner able to confirm the size of the Wifi card fitted in the 8371? Is it a full size "mini PCIE" card or a half size one?

it's a half height card. I've got an Intel 5300 a/b/g/n card with 3rd antenna in mine

tbz_ck · 29 Nov 2010 at 09:55

haz_pro said:
Do you mean it just doesnt give you the option, or it gives you the option but wont save?

If it doesnt give you the option you need to change a 0 to a 1, in the config file for afterburner.

If it doesnt save, well then your in the same situation as me which i yet to solve.

I have the option but it doesn't save. Meaning that the clocks never change from 450/600......

Adz, how on earth did you get it to work????

e36Adz · 29 Nov 2010 at 10:07

tbz_ck said:
I have the option but it doesn't save. Meaning that the clocks never change from 450/600......

Adz, how on earth did you get it to work????

Whatever I did, it took me 10 mins max using google or messing around in the settings to figure it out

If you guys don't figure it out by tonight, I will let you know once I'm back from work.

e36Adz · 29 Nov 2010 at 10:32

From the top of my head, try saving the settings as a profile. I know I have my settings saved as profile 1, and then I applied and saved those.

tbz_ck · 29 Nov 2010 at 11:13

e36Adz said:
From the top of my head, try saving the settings as a profile. I know I have my settings saved as profile 1, and then I applied and saved those.

Tried that several times mate. Still didn't work. Not had time to do a google over the weekend. May try tonight if you don't post a how-to yourself.

So to recap: I found the relevant part of the cfg file and changed that to a "1" from a "0". then created profiles and moved sliders etc etc. But no joy, still at 450/600 no matter what I seemed to do both within the settings of the program itself or in the cfg file.

haz_pro · 29 Nov 2010 at 13:55

That was my problem, i would create a profile, click the profile, click apply, and all the settings were wrong haha.

EDIT:

Laptop fan is driving me mad again haha.

Is it easy to mod a bios to change fan turn on temperature to say 50, for both plugged in, and whilst running on battery?

I had not even flashed a bios until a week or so ago, so i am a complete noob on this!

AmDaMan · 29 Nov 2010 at 17:30

So is this better than the UL30A? The only thing I can see is lack of a HDMI port otherwise looks too good to be true for the price!! Tweakable too from the looks of things?

olivier renault · 29 Nov 2010 at 17:47

I'm not bowled over by the UL30A build quality, or screen viewing angles. This looks better built. The viewing angles look similarly poor. But I still love my notebook. They are great at what they do (basically better specced netbooks).

AmDaMan · 29 Nov 2010 at 18:28

I've seen this for £330inc and I'm tempted!

Loque · 29 Nov 2010 at 18:31

wow not bad, dont suppose you could pm me where?

AmDaMan · 29 Nov 2010 at 19:04

Done - The 8371-944G50n can be had for £20 more.. it has HDMI but does it have the dedicated graphics? Getting conflicting information.

haz_pro · 29 Nov 2010 at 19:42

AmDaMan said:
Done - The 8371-944G50n can be had for £20 more.. it has HDMI but does it have the dedicated graphics? Getting conflicting information.

I dont believe it has discrete graphics.

Bump for anyone willing to help me mod a bios to increase temp that fan comes on

MasterPlan1 · 30 Nov 2010 at 11:21

Cuppa said:
How well does it run WoW? Looking for something to run WoW when I visit the inlaws. What sort of setting do oyu run and what sort of framerates are you getting? Do you have trouble with it in northrend or with the redone zones in the old kingdoms?

I was looking at a samsung r580 but thats still more than I'd like to spend, so if this laptop does play WoW ok it may be worth looking at.

Is there a 15" version available?

The only slowdown I have is when logging in to Dalaran or major cities, but I raid on it and it's very capable, I run it in a 16:9 window (whatever the one is thats smaller than the native res, 1280:960?) with "Good" graphics settings, MSBT, DBM, Skada, Omen, and a minimalist UI, I sometimes have a little bit of stutter when I'm at big AoE packs in ICC, but that's because I'm throwing about SoC (now RoF)

Cuppa · 30 Nov 2010 at 12:44

MasterPlan1 said:
The only slowdown I have is when logging in to Dalaran or major cities, but I raid on it and it's very capable, I run it in a 16:9 window (whatever the one is thats smaller than the native res, 1280:960?) with "Good" graphics settings, MSBT, DBM, Skada, Omen, and a minimalist UI, I sometimes have a little bit of stutter when I'm at big AoE packs in ICC, but that's because I'm throwing about SoC (now RoF)

Really appreciate the feedback, thanks fella. Would just be used for quest grinding and maybe 5 mans for me so seems it will do the job.