Anyway, this thing performs well and everything, but in games it appears to have slight "momentary freezes" where it will just suddenly freeze for a few seconds or so and then go back to normal, and this happens by the minute now and then, no matter what the setting is.

That bugs me, even though this laptop performs quiet well, it's momentary freezes are madly annoying, i bought the laptop on the 15th and just received it on the 20th. So i know i'm under warranty and can more than easily return this laptop, or have any problems fixed, though it wouldn't be easy considering i bought it online. (Dumb move)

Any ideas? Im not a laptop expert as much as a desktop expert, never had this issue before.

I read somewhere that it is possible that it could be a hard drive issue, but i don't have momentary freezes outside of games so i don't see reason for that.

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Permalink Reply by Lance Burrows on January 20, 2011 at 11:44pm

That doesn't sound like a Hard Drive problem,

More likely there is to many processors running and they hit 100% when your in games, the specs of the laptop looks like it can handle some decent games!

Do you have an external monitor?

If so connect it and set the display to extend to that monitor then run task manager in the second monitor, run the game on the laptops screen then while playing watch the processors to see if they go above 80%-90%

Also I had a similar problem and it was the laptops Ram so you could try flip the laptop over and there should be a cover that is held on by usually one screw take off the cover carefully if you feel keen it wont brake the laptop but remove the ram modules blow on the ports and chips and swap them around and reboot!

Thats just a suggestion!

Also how old is the laptop and how much have you installed on it?

You may have to lower some of the game settings and one tip you should defiantly do with this problem or not run msconfig with this program built in to windows you can shut down start up applications they will still open fine once launched from start bar or desktop and shut down unneeded processors this is also ok to do as once the program loads the processors will also start, now only shut down processors that you know what they do and if you don't do a google!

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Permalink Reply by iЛенин on January 21, 2011 at 4:19am

only 529$? i got to check this baby out...

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Permalink Reply by Gibson on January 21, 2011 at 9:55am

you won't get the battery life of an m11x i'll just say that lol.

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Permalink Reply by JS on January 21, 2011 at 5:46am

Sounds like a OS or video card driver problem.

Had a similar issue with Mac OS X a while back, but it was not just limited to games (all graphics-intense applications were suffering). An OS reinstall helped.

Might also be a RAM issue.

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Permalink Reply by Gibson on January 21, 2011 at 9:56am

its brand new just arrived from shipping yesterday. I plan to purchase extended warranty and my last laptop ran into an issue right after it. Course it's lasted an additional 2 years without problem, its an hp.

This laptop is brand spanking new, 24 hours old out of the box. The following installed programs are

Windows 7 Home premium 64-bit (Pre installed)

Google Chrome (which i use mainly)

Steam

Microsoft security essentials

World of warcraft Up to catacylsm and latest patches ran off an external hard drive atm because i have crappy internet and Patching takes forever so i bummed it off my tower. I don't really wanna open the memory bay when its under warranty. I will be checking with the games support team to see if they have any known game related issues to the freezing, im bout to install Left 4 dead, a much less demanding title, to see what happens.

It's also an intel core i3-370M 2.4 ghz 3MB L3 cache dual core, a good chip for laptops

i as i speak, am running nothing but google chrome, MSE (microsoft security essentials)

and just geeks.pirillo.com open. Cpu useage is like 3-4% generally speaking buffs randomly to 20% sometimes 25% 35% idk lol ram useage is 1.5gb this is a 64-bit system

Windows update is currently installing so this may play a key role in my current useage stats.

But's its a damn good cpu.

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Permalink Reply by Gibson on January 21, 2011 at 12:58pm

im starting to pounder this being any way related to my internet connection, witch is rather poor for a powerful computer to run off of.

its a basic 1.5MB Cable connection.

though with older hardware i have never experienced Momentary freezes.

CPU Useage looks normal, havnt seen it stick at 100% for a brief second or anything

generally doesnt get over 60

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Permalink Reply by JS on January 23, 2011 at 3:34am

What's your connection speed (both up and down) and ping with the computer on SpeedTest.net's closest server, and to the neighbouring country (for you it would be the US)?

How many computers are on your network?

Are any of them running things like bittorrent, msn/similar chat program or RSS feed updaters/twitter apps/etc. - similar things that would use the internet in small spikes that could hinder game performance?

1.5 Megs is not much compared to my insane (>120Mb/s down) network speeds, but it should be sufficient for most games.

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Permalink Reply by Gibson on January 23, 2011 at 11:00am

ya don't get squat for internet around here, highest available i believe is 25MB?

looken at 100$ it is fully dedicated to each customer eh.

Sucks, but w/e.

AVG 1MB Download. 0.30MB

i know fkin embarassing.

ping 163ms.

this is usually over 200ms in games.

hasnt been an issue generally...

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Permalink Reply by Travis Piper on January 21, 2011 at 3:47pm

Wach out for your 5650! Some companies leave out important details in cooling when they design the laptops, my 2600xt in my desktop machine was the newest card on the market but eventually it had heat problems and they created some momentary freezing plus some ghosting, about half a year later a new one came out with a bigger cooler! So try checking the temp on that? Or run the ati gpu/ram test if you have it.