Category: Laptop / PC

Shuttle DH170 is a mini PC from popular German computer manufacture. Powered by the new Intel Skylake platform, it is only measures 43 mm in thickness, thus ideal to be placed in small spaces and even the VESA attachment of a monitor.

Has said Tom Seiffert, head of marketing and public relations Shuttle,  “This type of box is ideal for all situations, including those where environmental or space are not the best conditions for a PC, but still needed have a team that provides good computing power.”

Shuttle DH170 is barebones which means that the user must install the hard disk and RAM on your own. So you will not be able to use it straight out of the box. For processors, you get to choose between Intel Celeron, Pentium and Core i-series processor that go up to 65W TDP. It offers active cooling system with two built-in fans.

The system supports configurations up to 16GB of DDR3L RAM and M.2 SSDs with PCI-Express interface of any capacity so that users could integrate a fairly powerful and fast inside this little device system. Shuttle DH170 incorporates Intel Gigabit network card with two RJ-45 inputs, four USB 3.0, four USB 2.0 and two Display Port outputs and a HDMI video. It also has two RS-232 ports to integrate relatively old industrial devices or those who still use this interface.

The recommended retail price for these new DH170 Shuttle is 224 euros and remember that you have to buy SSD and RAM memory separately.

A lot of HP dv6 and dv7 700XX and 71XX series users that includes 7100, 7039tx, 7040tx, 7010tx, 7011tx, 7138us, 7134nr, 7135nr, 7180, 7137nr, dv7 7000, 7212nr, 7338ea, 7008tx and 7047cl are facing over heating problem. The HP dv6 and dv7 are so poor at cooling because they come with powerful i7 or i5 processor and Nvidia discrete graphics that generate a lot of heat.

1) Buy a cheap laptop cooling pad or mat from amazon or some other shop to place underneath your HP dv6 or dv7. The is right under the Esc key so to get the most out of the laptop cooling pad, place one of its fans directly underneath it.

2) On Window’s battery settings, do the following: go to more power options > change plan settings > advanced power settings > processor power management > change the maximum processor state to “99%”. This will prevent the HP’s processor from using turboboost and keep the CPU running at base clock. This will keep the system run cool and prevent overheating problem.

3) Clean laptop’s fans or reapply thermal paste. For this, you will have to disassemble the laptop and reply the thermal paste on to the laptop. You can also reapply the thermal paste on the CPU and/or GPU to make them run cooler. Here is its disassembly video.

The quick but less effective solution to clean your fans is to blow compressed air into the intake and ex-take vents of the fan.

HP Envy 15-3200 is an excellent laptop but if you have installed Windows 10 update, you will be facing the brightness issue. There is a fix for this brightness toggle problem in Windows 7 and Windows 8 but that would not work in Windows 10. Fortunately, there is a solution.

Download this reg file from here and double click on it to install it on your HP Envy 15-3200 running Windows 10 operating system. You can also do it manually by following these steps.

Press win + R
enter regedit
press ctrl + F
enter FeatureTestControl

In following directories, find “FeatureTestControl” and change his value to “0000ffff”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\intelkmd

And now reboot. Of course, you can just install the registry key mentioned earlier to fix it.

The Dell Alienware M11x laptop is one of the most powerful mini laptops of all time. A lot of users have been asking me on how to restore Windows the easiest way or how to get hold of an official windows ISO.

Continue reading Alienware M11x: Restoring Windows the easy way

If your new Acer Aspire 7551G keeps overheating, it is probably due to the fact that the BIOS whose main duty is to keep both CPU and GPU cool, is only keeping an eye on the temperature of CPU, ignoring GPU completely.

Continue reading Acer Aspire 7551G Overheating Solution

Folks at Prema have worked a lot harder than we expected and have churned out new BIOS for the Dell Alienware 15 and Alienware 17 that make them run faster. Download links are given below. With these you can easily overclock laptop or underclock laptop easily.

Here are the features of the Prema vBIOS mod for the Alienware laptops.

1. It disables the power throttles allowing you to overclock your heart’s content.
2. It comes with over voltage slider and pre adjusted – offering up to the maximum of 1.2v.
3. Thermal slider also comes activated to keep the laptops run cooler.
4. Core overclock slider raised
5. Fixed 3D voltage base-line in order to stabilize OCs (based on average ASIC score)
5. Thermal protection is set at 92 centigrade.
6. It provides protection against Furmark and Kombustor GPU burnout

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