Users of Tegra 4 tablet complain of overheating

ChronoReverse

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Where are the professional reviews of this? I'd like to give Tegra4 a chance despite being extremely jaded against it.
 

Rakehellion

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Sounds like just the one tablet, not a problem with the chip in general. Though Nvidia did make a lot of bold claims.
 

wilds

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I had devices with Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 and they sucked. Tegra 4 looks promising thanks to its 4 A15's, but they are clocked too high it seems like.
 

sontin

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What do you expect? If you want performance then you must life with the heat.

You have this with every device. And here the chip has nearly a direct connection to the surface.
 

SiliconWars

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I'm sure it's just another "mechanical issue with a 3rd party component". It's not like Nvidia has a track record of overheating chips or anything like that.
 

Tsavo

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Amazon user reviews don't really qualify for any level of legitimacy.
 

Sweepr

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Seems like the days of doubling tablet/smartphone CPU performance every few months are over.
 

Ibra

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Nice try. If you read more customer reviews you will find out that FX 8350 is faster than i7 3930K. :rolleyes:
 

sontin

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And it's not "Tegra 4 tablets" but Toshiba's products. But i guess we need not so much information for bashing Intel's competition...
 

SiliconWars

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Let's have a rundown of some of the comment highlights.

I was quite concerned when the unit overheated a lot after only 20 or 30 minutes of use.
I got it before launch and HEAT is the reason I returned it. By the camera on the back got so hot at times when doing almost nothing.
I had one that also got extremely hot, but mine also would quite frequently just power down and start up again, and it would just randomly freeze requiring a hard reboot.
Mine is overheating when I play 3D games but My Ipad 2 is also overheating when I play such games.....
But it's really too heat...
overheating !!
It will die when play some kind of RTS 3D games for 30mins!(Maybe because of there are to many item in the game map)
Well, that's not good.
 

sontin

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And here two guys from the xda forum:
The battery does not drain quick when browsing, need more time for in depth test though
The part above the power in port gets warm during charging and use, and is the hottest part of the tablet
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43805562&postcount=29

The heat coming from the left side of the tablet, as you mentioned, does get pretty warming, which definitely becomes uncomfortable but not unusable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43865371&postcount=30

Third one:
It does get a little warm on the left side under the camera when running an intensive app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43435125&postcount=16
 
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SiliconWars

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"uncomfortable" heat in a $500 tablet is just not acceptable I'm afraid. Looks like 1.6 GHz is just too high for this.
 

wand3r3r

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What do you expect? If you want performance then you must life with the heat.

You have this with every device. And here the chip has nearly a direct connection to the surface.

Right, so every device is burning your lap/hand etc. Funny I've never seen it elsewhere with the few popular tablets I've used (not sure about the performance difference of the typical samsung/idevice but they sure don't heat up much).
 

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Its called install a fan on the tablet. Tegra 4 runs hotter than the competition, think of it as the GTX 480 of tablet processors.
 

sm625

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Nvidia Shield has a fan? God what a debacle. What happened to the process of clocking a chip so it can run under full load without dying or burning people?
 

sontin

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Right, so every device is burning your lap/hand etc. Funny I've never seen it elsewhere with the few popular tablets I've used (not sure about the performance difference of the typical samsung/idevice but they sure don't heat up much).

I guess you never used an High-End tablet. :rolleyes:
BTW: Acer's tablets with Tegra 3 had the same problems. On the other hand the Transformer Prime with an ALU surface was much better.

But i guess it's always nVidia's fault. :awe:
 

Keysplayr

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Can we please stop with the "My Dad is cooler than your Dad" BS please? Lord knows the adept google warrior can find anything they want if search is worded well enough. Does Tegra 4 run fast as well as hot? How does it compare? Google onward soldiers!
 

Skurge

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I guess you never used an High-End tablet. :rolleyes:
BTW: Acer's tablets with Tegra 3 had the same problems. On the other hand the Transformer Prime with an ALU surface was much better.

But i guess it's always nVidia's fault. :awe:

I handle a lot of tablets. The hotest being iPad 3, but it wasn't all that much hotter than iPad 2 looking at the numbers, but people made a big deal about it when there wasn't one.

I'm not the biggest fan of tegra 4, I think Qualcomm are doing a much better job with S600/S800, but people like making a mountain out of a mole hill. We will have to see what independent reviewers say.

But if Nexus 10 is anything to go by, it will either throttle or run hot. We shall see though.
 
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Cortex A15 strikes again. An overly aggressive chip that completely missed the target market.

Glad to see ARM back-track with the A12.