Disappointed in Triton 500 SE keyboard/palm rest temperature

alanyu

I own a Triton 500 SE 3080, and I'm disappointed on it. This laptop is generally a revision of GS65, and its cooling is way better than GS65 TBH. However, it is dropped by GS66 in cooling, keyboard/palm rest temperature, keyboard RGB and feedback, bios, etc.

After upgrading to 1.03 bios, PL1/PL2 becomes 90/115 W instead of 64/90 W in 1.01, which is way out of its cooling capability. Even though I have repasted CPU and GPU with PTM 7950, which is way better than the stocked one, the CPU throttle stops a lot under AIDA 64 FPU stress test (AVX512 off) in Turbo mode (100 C CPU temperature, 82 W CPU power, 20 C room temperature, and it's noisy as a vaccum cleaner).

I set PL1/PL2 to 64/90 W in XTU, and the temperature of CPU and GPU becomes reasonable under stress test (AIDA 64 FPU stress+ Furmark resulted in 81 C and 76 C). Although the cooling capability of the chipset is above average in the "thin and heavy" catalog, the keyboard and palm rest simply gets too hot in AAA games, not a big issue as I don't use the ***** built-in keyboard for games most of time (I don't like the weak and soft feeling and the downgraded 3-zone RGB from per key of the previous 500 model). The problem is that I use this laptop in my office to do some calculation and simulation (not heavy work), the keyboard and palm rest simply again gets hot, a bad user experience.

Triton 500 SE is 2 mm thicker than the previous 500 model, which should result in a better keyboard temperature in principle. However, the chassis is not well designed, as all the ports are not in the center position of their holes. They are on the keyboard side, which means the motherboard of 500 SE is somehow the same distance to the keyboard as that of the old 500. There is enough space to push the motherboard 1 mm further away to the keyboard, which should result in a better keyboard temperature.

I don't know what's the concept of Acer/Predator's engineers: the bios is nearly functionless, without the function of undervolt, switch on/off RAID 0, etc. Moreover, although it is claimed that the TGP of 3080 is up to 110 W and in the NV's driver panel shows 110 W, I have never seen it stable at 110 W, either in AAA game or Furmark stress test. There was one or two spikes at 110W for 1~2 sec, but it can only be stable at 100 W max for long time. Again a bios issue, I guess. Also, the PredatorSense lacks some useful function as provided by its competitors such as ROG and MSI: no manul overlock, no manual undervolts, no custom fan speed curve, etc.

Come on Acer/Predator! Wake up!  

Imran_akhtar

Hi, can you send me dimensions of your triton500se battery? I am planning on replacing my triton500(84wh) with triton 500se (99wh) one. On first look it looks similar in size and all the holes match up too. I just need to confirm the thickness, length and width of it.

alanyu

Imran_akhtar said:

Hi, can you send me dimensions of your triton500se battery? I am planning on replacing my triton500(84wh) with triton 500se (99wh) one. On first look it looks similar in size and all the holes match up too. I just need to confirm the thickness, length and width of it.

Sorry, I can't do it now. The battery is dead sadly or the cables themselves are loosen to its own male plug (the battery's male is well connected to the MB's female). The laptop can't work without the adaptor, and thus it has been sent to repair. More sadly, there is no backup battery here and I need to wait.