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In addition to everyone else's comments, also do consider that Windows 10 may automatically start and update your system when it wants (at night) without your consent if you do not control this aspect. If it has a network connection, Windows 10 will wake-up your system, update and resume the initial stand-by state mode.…

Do change the thermal paste. It degrades over time. If properly done, it should give you quite a difference, specially in idle mode (25-30C in idle, 15-20C in normal use). Make sure you use enough, so contact will be proper. it is not sufficient to put a very thin layer like it was possible for old desktop CPUs.

See my answer from this topic: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/534582/weird-noise-from-right-speaker-of-predator-g9-593-while-gaming

There's another closed longer topic about this, you can read it here: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/534951/acer-predator-g9-593-buzzing-noise-coming-from-speakers-under-full-load-with-video?breakffcache=c4e7b Anyway, in my case the 1st time the Geiger-like noise started was about 1 year ago when I was using it…

@urfiinjuice How long do you have it ? I replaced the thermal paste on mine after about 2 years when CPU temp reached 90C in CPU-intensive programs (and also the same in Metro X). Since it was fine up to recently, I think the thermal paste just degraded over time and ended up loosing it's thermal x-fer efficiency.

After 2 years of intense use, my Acer Predator ended up sounding like a vacuum cleaner when doing anything CPU-intensive. When I checked, CPU was at 90C+ . It took about 15 minutes to open it up to change the thermal paste and clean the main vent. I used some good quality Thermaltake paste. After that was done, CPU was at…

Good points, many useful things could be added as improvements of the management software.

So what's the actual part number of the SATA cable ?

Somehow I got some mixed replies. I wanted to say here that in order for the laptop to work well on battery the cells must be in perfect shape. I did run a high end game on battery and it worked fine (I noticed later that the power plug was accidentally off). Generally, as best practice, it's good to have it plugged…

You cannot state something generally valid in this matter, but yes, most are not actually trained at all. Tehre are situations where someone that never fired a shot can be singificantly better than the average trained too and the reverse, where you shoot thousands and you're still bad at it. So the training amount is…

I manufactured my own clamp to use a standard 80M2 on the longer slot. I am yet to find a cable so I can add a HDD. Would of been nice if the notebook would of been delivered with one.

My Predator 17 with 1070 worked fine so far, except one case when it completely froze and I had to open the service case to make it turn off (power button was not working). This is the only anomaly I encountered. No BSODs, no stucks, no overheat. The only thing I can complain at the moment is the lack of CAPS/NUM/SCLK…

Very strange. Mine came with all those components available. ODD was in but I have the frost vent too and I will use it in the summer.

I agree about the paste. But what usually made a lot of T difference was a well placed fan. If there is strategical space near key components that's the best thing that can be done. It made differences of 10-20C for me each time i did that. For many notebooks models it may be difficult to find available space, but if you…

Completely deleting the drives does destroy the RAID info also, but you have to erase them either by connecting them externally or with special tools.

Externally formating the HDD will terminate the RAID. Hopefully, future UEFI versions will support a non-RAID (SATA only) mode to evoid any confusion.

What exactly do you mean ? What browser and OS are you using ?

sounds like a bad cell pair in the battery to me. Contact your vendor and request the battery to be changed.

Try monitoring the temperature 1st. It should be fine overall.

No poit in opening a new thread, but how exactly is that cable called ? Can any small SATA cable be used or is it a special part ?