Acer Predator 17X

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Morning/afternoon all!
After many years absent, i have finally found a reason to come back to the usual stomping grounds...

I've just got myself a Predator 17X GX-792-7748
i7-7700, 16Gb Ram, 1080, 256Gb SSD, 1Tb HDD, 17.3" G-sync Display

How hot are these meant to run?
This is the first gaming laptop i've purchased and i notice the slightest bit of stress and the fans kick upto, with not a lot of increase in the 2x graphics tests i've tried, but the CPU/GPU are north of 780/80*c respectively.

Is that normal?

Also, i'm trying to work out whether to take this thing back.
I'm so used to full blown computers that the idea of this Laptop, as nice as it is, makes my mind rebel.
I got it with the idea of the spec's would last me a good few years, and some minor SSD/RAM upgrades would extend that. Add to that my nomadic nature for the foreseeable future and the use of headphones and the fan noise drawback should be ok too...whatever it takes to convince myself eh? :-p


Thanks in advance all.
 
The temps you have quoted would pretty much be regarded as normal when using the laptop in suitable ambient temperature conditions.

One thing to take note is that the general consensus with Pascal cards is that they do tend to run on the hot side when compared to previous generations, and the graphics chips on laptops like this one and many others alone will heat up more than the CPU. Typically the cooling design on many laptops these days use shared heat pipes between both the CPU & GPU - and as a result, the GPU running hotter will also cause the CPU temperatures to run slightly hotter as well, that with the laptops overall internals operating under a hotter environment when at full pelt too.

The more bulkier laptops such as the Predator you now have will have more sufficient cooling when compared to other slimmer laptops such as the Razor Blade, but nonetheless it won't be uncommon for it to still heat up to the lower 80's in real world usage.

I imagine the Predator will come with it's own pre-loaded software which in turn controls and regulates the fan speeds, usually you can change these yourself and quite possibly create a custom fan profile which therefore the fans will not spin up until say the CPU / GPU temperatures reach in excess of 50c. When I owned an MSI not long ago, the default fan speed was set so that the fans would run all the time - even if the CPU/GPU temperature was below 40c but after manually changing the setting myself I was able to deactivate the fans altogether when the laptop was idle or when general web browsing.

Take a look at the Notebookcheck website to see if you have a full review on the laptop you have, I find it's very well detailed when they do the reviews.

Liam.
 
Afternoon,
Thanks for the reply, yes, i got the 17" over the 15" purely on thermal properties.
Was just curious as the last video card in either form factor i had was a Radeon 6950 and that barely touched 70*c.

Curious however, that the Asus software which i guess controls the fans, reports the 'system' temperature for CPUs, where as SpeedFan, reports each CPU core at 10-15*c lower.

How likely is the warranty to break if the bottom is popped off, seeing as there's no 'warranty' stickers ? Might replace the HDD....

Cheers.
 
BoomAM said:
Afternoon,
Thanks for the reply, yes, i got the 17" over the 15" purely on thermal properties.
Was just curious as the last video card in either form factor i had was a Radeon 6950 and that barely touched 70*c.

Curious however, that the Asus software which i guess controls the fans, reports the 'system' temperature for CPUs, where as SpeedFan, reports each CPU core at 10-15*c lower.

How likely is the warranty to break if the bottom is popped off, seeing as there's no 'warranty' stickers ? Might replace the HDD....

Cheers.
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For CPU / GPU temperature monitoring I solely HWMonitor, I find it's the most reliable one out of the others. With regards to popping the bottom off, personally I wouldn't see it a problem at all as most laptop manufacturers nowadays are fine with the owner upgrading the RAM / disk drives etc. Just as long as no other noticeable changes or wear occurs ;) For absolute peace of mind, it may be worth checking it out with the manufacturer before you go ahead.

I know from experience that MSI laptops have a warranty sticker that is found covering one of the bottom screws and has to be teared off to get to it, however MSI claim that the owner can still open the laptop to upgrade the likes of the above but just as long as any other components are not damaged in the process.

Liam.
 
Considering desktop GPU's and some CPU's will hit that, I don't think there's much to worry about, the new laptops are very powerful as well and high end ones give performance relative to mid-high range desktops.
 
Cheers guys.

I'll check out what Acer specify as it would be good to keep the 2 year warranty intact and perform a minor (and cheaper) SSD upgrade/addition.
 
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