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prichm1992

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I hope that this can become some kind of reference for potential buyers, and I don't care how it stacks up to the nexus family. I know it's fast, i know the gpu is 72 cores, I know the front camera sucks, I know it's 1280x800, and I know that it has a stylus. I just have a few questions.

DOES IT GET HOT? - I have had an atrix 4g and an optimus 4x HD (tegra 2 and 3 respectively) and I need to know, from a USER, will I get overheat followed by godawful thermal throttling if I play, let's say, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite or N.O.V.A. 3 for 45 minutes plus? 2 hours? And how hot DOES it get? The 4x hd would reach 65 to 70 degrees (cpu) and as much as 56 degrees (battery). To the point where touching the back of the device instilled a feeling of alarm. This is my biggest point of hesitation on the note 7.

THE RAM - I know the ram has insane speed. (1600 ddr3l) Even so, it's still only 1gb. I will often Skype or hangouts while playing my games, maybe even swap back and forth between a couple browsers and craigslist, still during the games and Skype. That all happens on just 2 gigs of 440mhz ram on my note 2. Will this be possible on my evga note 7? Or will I have to adjust my multitasking?

I/O (storage speed) - Friend's generic Chinese quad core tablet (irrelevant model) gets awful storage speed, which will bottleneck his relatively nice quad core CPU when he runs intense emus, like Drastic DS or ppsspp. Emulators like this, as well as games that take up extra large amounts of internal storage like Modern Combat 4, are pretty much all I play. Do I have anything to worry about? Will this be a point of disappointment for the tn7?

Thank you all for your patience for a new and nooby user..

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jon7701

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As you can see from the screenshot the I/O is just a bit faster then your note 2. I'm not sure about it getting crazy hot and start throttling because I don't play those kind of games. If your worried about heat you can set it into power save mode which will limit the fps to 30 and use only 2 cores which can reduce heat and keep decent performance. The multi tasking seems pretty decent and I've been able to switch between chrome and YouTube pretty easily, except sometimes Google search gets killed and I'll have to wait for the launcher to come back up. If your worried about ram you could try a swapper app to give it some virtual ram to use which can help.

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prichm1992

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Thank you, I'm relieved that they didn't put cheapo nand in this thing, and low power sounds promising. I'll have to look into bench performance on that. Still need someone to tell me about heat when running all 4 cores, though.

It's so awesome, seeing so many higher scores than the note 2.

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prichm1992

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Oh god thanks man! Ordering tomorrow. Do you get that terrible "creaking" when you press anywhere? Or was that just in the earliest models?

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I've had mine a week tomorrow, upgraded from 2012 Nexus and would say it was more solid than the nexus. No complaints here

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foxorroxors

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It does get hot man on the bottom left of the back (while you look at it) but nothing really too bad. There's no creaking on the screen when you press but it does creak a little its not the best build in the world. But nothing that will make you feel like it wasn't worth the purchase. Am on my second advent one first one was dropped by my two year olds and the speaker bust on one side. Apart from that nothing else to say =)

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The max temperature that the device needs to hit is 102°c for it to automatically shutdown, contains alot of thermal throttling for safety, nvidia know what they are doing this device can definitely accept good heat
 

prichm1992

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Dear God, I'd definitely fly into an panic if it got that hot. 73'c on the 4x HD was close to a smidge painful. My PC doesn't even get that hot. Mobile processors ftw

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