2012 Archives

[Walder]

lol same date, same size

[patrickmania]

Just look at my changelog (I posted this on the WiFi thread):

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patrickmania wrote:

CHANGELOG

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Version 2.08 

• Implemented more nothing
• Let customers hope for a fix, while we don't give a ****

Version 2.07

• Implemented and changed nothing
• Make customers think we're actually working on something

Version 2.05

• Initial production BIOS for these models

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[Walder]

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

[CTACAH]

Hi guys. I'm from cold Russia.

There are winter now, and i can test tablet outdoors.

Give me some time pls and u can see some intresting screenshots.

[CTACAH]

The results of the test:

http://i070.radikal.ru/1301/99/836730835302.jpg

game settings on display at the average standard, except for antialiasing;

http://s019.radikal.ru/i632/1301/1d/ff258c0e2472.jpg

FPS in the game was around 15 at the time of the test, time after switching windows 5-10 seconds was about 25;

http://s018.radikal.ru/i503/1301/48/00ef8e3f5bd9.jpg

schedule after the test, two peaks on it - switching windows and screenshot.

Temperature you see.
The tablet worked in a factory mode "High performance", Power - cord.

As for the duration, yes, the test was short, but the street is not so hot, but in shorts long downtime. Did not want to dress up, lol .

Sorry for radikal. And for English.

[Walder]

Its a shame, but thanks for the effor CTACAH, now i wanted to know from the people who got the tablet with the keyboard cover what their bios version is and if they have throttle as well, just to know if theres any chance those are revision units.

unclewebb from throttlestop sent me this :

"Can someone post a ThrottleStop log file from any other laptop that uses the exact same CPU? It would be interesting to see if the throttling is because of the low power U series CPU or if it is because of something Acer has done.

Power consumption has to be reduced for a fixed amount of time before the turbo timer is reset and Turbo Boost can be used again. All of this is hard coded and controlled by the CPU so tricking the CPU is not an option. Intel did a good job of closing all the loop holes in their latest generations."

If any1 has a laptop or tablet with the same exact CPU please please help us.

[1stTimeAcer]

The closest thing is the S7 i5, it pretty much has the same internal as our i5 tablet. I found this in the Intel forum, it looks like the iGPU throttle doesn't just happen with our 3317U.

[suzook]

Imo this is normal operation. These are mobile proccesors. These mobile devices are NOT advertised as gaming devices..

[BenjaminLSR]

Then why latest Macbook air and latest samsung slate that both use the same i5 cpu doesn’t suffer throttling ?

- EP121 suffered same throttling until I disabled PROCHOT on BIOS.

- First Samsung Slate suffered throttling until they updated their "easy settings" software to enable FULL POWER checkbox.

[suzook]

They are concerned about  battery life. Should they offer an option to turn it off??? Absolutely, but i think they feel this is perfectly acceptable, otherwise they would offer it.