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Averages verified benchmark scores per laptop to find the best performing laptop for each game or synthetic benchmark utility. Note - for users with benchmark logs, if more then 1 benchmark is submitted under different settings, the best score of all settings is used for averaging.
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Sager NP8662
Average: 5.60
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Sager NP9262
Average: 5.50
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Asus G50Vt
Average: 5.50
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Gateway P-7805u FX
Average: 5.40
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Dell XPS M1730
Average: 13,721.75
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Alienware Area-51 m17x
Average: 12,643
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Alienware m17
Average: 12,385.33
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Clevo D901c
Average: 11,694
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Sager NP9262
Average: 11,570.50
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Alienware Area-51 m15x
Average: 5,405
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Sager NP5793
Average: 4,703
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Sager NP9262
Average: 4,130
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Sager NP2096
Average: 3,942
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Gateway P-171XL FX
Average: 3,656
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Sager NP9260
Average: 41,168
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Dell XPS M1730
Average: 40,363
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Sager NP5793
Average: 37,372
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Alienware Area-51 m17x
Average: 36,455
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Gateway P-171XL FX
Average: 33,567
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Asus G50Vt
Average: 1,070.70
3:
Gateway P-7811 FX
Average: 1,049.70

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NBF Update - RSS Feed and Newest Releases
Another update from behind the scenes at Notebookforums. If youre a repeat visitor, you may have noticed that two tabs are missing from the homepage. The Drivers Tab and the Gaming Tab. We removed them temporary to rename some other tabs and we have plans to put them back on in a different form. So ...

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Gateway MD7826u Review
Gateway MD7826u Review

At a penny shy of $1000.00, the MD7826u is the most expensive of Gateway's MD series. As Gateway's website puts it, “Stylish and powerful, these beautiful MD Series laptops will get you noticed while you breeze through even the most power-hungry tasks.” In this ...

Sager 5797, 9280, 9850 and 8662 Now Available with Blu-Ray Burner!
PC Torque is proud to announce that the Sager NP 5797, 9280, 9850 and 8662 are now all available with a blu-ray burner : http://www.pctorque.com/sager-laptops.php

CyberPower Offering World’s Fastest Gaming Laptop?
CyberPower Inc today announced it’s first notebook to feature Intel’s Core i7 processors and X58 chipset. The Xplorer X7-Xtreme S1 notebook, comes equipped with a i7 920 CPU, up to 6GB of memory and the powerful GTA 280M Nvidia Graphics card. Display 17" (16:10) WUXGA TFT LCD Display 1920x1200 ...

Gateway’s First 11.6-inch Netbook
Quote: Gateway’s First 11.6-inch Netbook Delivers Functionality, Performance “The Gateway LT3100 is a smart netbook choice – it gives customers the freedom to connect to the Internet for everything from staying up-to-date on the latest viral videos and enjoying digital musi ...

Nvidia releases 40nm mobile graphics cards
Today Nvidia revealed the rest of its 2009 mobile graphics card lineup. For those of you who purchased a notebook with a G105M, GT120M, GT130M, or GTS160M, those graphics cards are going the way of the dinosaur after less than 6 months on the market. Replacing them (respectively) are the G210M, GT ...

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Lenovo IdeaPad S10 High Capacity Battery Review
Lenovo IdeaPad S10 (High Capacity Battery) Review

Lenovo recently revamped their line of IdeaPad S10 netbooks. The most significant change was the inclusion of a 6 cell battery option, which allows the computer to run for up to 5 hours away from a power cord, according to Lenovo. So does the ne ...

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Lenovo Thinkpad N500 Review
Intro This is the first laptop I have ever bought/owned outright so it was a pretty big leap. I wanted something that I could use for work at home, in the office, while traveling etc It was not going to be used for gaming purposes but it should still have enough CPU/RAM behind it to make it fairl ...

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First Impressions of Sager NP8662
Clevo M860ETU / Sager NP8662 First Impressions By Jason S. Ganz After over 2 years of daily usage with a Dell XPS m1710 laptop, taking it through task with academia, gaming, day-to-day work, etc., I had come to the conclusion that I wanted a performance rig, without the sheer size of the 17” profi ...

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Gateway M-153XL Arctic Bloom Review
Intro The primary attraction to this notebook was the beatiful floral design which clearly shows this is a girly notebook, but one with the hardware specs to make any geek turn their heads. The M-153XL sports an Intel Penryn Core 2 Duo (C2D) running at 2.4GHz with an 800MHz Front Side Bus. The M- ...

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Acer Ferrari 1000 Review
Acer Ferrari 1000 Introductions The Acer Ferrari 1000 is the fifth incarnation of the Acer Ferrari line. The Ferrari line was brought as a joint effort between Acer and AMD. The Ferrari part comes into play as both Acer and AMD are sponsors of the Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 racing team. First ...

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nVidia Forceware 190.15 Released (All OS)
ForceWare 190.15 for Vista x86 Vista x64 / Win7 x86 Win7 x64 / WinXP x86 WinXP x64 @ LaptopVideo2Go Quote: Latest drivers out: Operating System: Vista x86 Vista x64 / Win7 x86 Win7 x64 / WinXP x86 WinXP x64 Driver Version: 190.15 Driver Date: 2009-06- ...

nVidia Forceware 185.85 Released (All OS)
ForceWare 179.82 for Vista x86 Vista x64 / Win7 x86 Win7 x64 / WinXP x86 WinXP x64 @ LaptopVideo2Go Quote: Latest drivers out: Operating System: Vista x86 Vista x64 / Win7 x86 Win7 x64 / WinXP x86 WinXP x64 Driver Version: 185.85 Driver Date: 2009-05- ...

nVidia Forceware 179.82 Released (Vista 32/64)
ForceWare 179.82 for Vista 32 and Vista 64 @ LaptopVideo2Go Quote: Latest drivers out for Vista 32 and Vista 64 Operating System: Vista 32 and Vista 64 Driver Version: 179.82 Driver Date: 2009-04-16 (YYYY-MM-DD) Vista 32 and Vista ...

nVidia Forceware 185.81 Beta Released
ForceWare 181.81 for Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition @ LaptopVideo2Go Quote: Latest beta drivers out for Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition. Operating System: Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition Driver Version: 181.81 Drive ...

nVidia Forceware 181.72 Windows 7 (Windows Update)
There is an WDDM 1.x driver update from MSUpdate for WIndows 7. Thanks to LaptopVideo2Go for the tip.

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Windows Vista Experience Index
Sager NP8662
5.60 
by ganzonomy
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CINEBENCH R10
Gateway M-153XL
3,606 CB
by MichelleG
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PassMark PerformanceTest 7.0
HP/Compaq Pavilion dv7-2040US
1,168.70 
by NickWelder
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Super PI 2M
Lenovo Thinkpad T400
0.83 
by Djembe
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3DMark06
Acer Aspire Revo R3600
1,296 3DMarks
by MichelleG
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Counterstrike: Source Stress Test
HP/Compaq Pavilion dv7-2040US
238.43 fps
by VegetarianEater
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3DMark Record Broken Again
Well it wasn't Team Finland again breaking the 3Dmark06 world record, but Kevin Wu from Lord Americas. This news is a bit old, but I love reporting whenever the bar gets raised in terms of benchmarking. It means technology is continuing to get better. Kevin is running a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3540, ...

MaxxPI 2 Benchmark
Here's a cool benchmark that measures cpu / cache / memory performance. Version 1.36 was released on the 12th, and I'm going to insert it into our database so people can submit it.

Download here.

Anyone want to r ...

Windows 7 Better For Gaming
According to an in depth article written by PC Perspective, a slew of nVidia and Ati cards were pitted up against 6 gaming benchmarks on Windows Vista and Windows 7, and the benchmarks on Windows 7 equaled or exceeded overall performance. This may be a hint that when Windows 7 is finally released, ...

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2GB Micron DDR3 1066mhz RAM (Pulled from MacBook Pro)
All, I'm selling 2GB (2 x 1 GB) of brand new RAM pulled from my new MacBook Pro. It was only used a couple of days, before I upgraded to 4 GB. Asking $40 + Shipping, OBO PM for offers. Thanks! JDK Ebay: infinity_book_service Amazon: infinitybookservice

FS: Targus Citygear 17" backpack (fits M1730 great)
I used it for about 3 1/2 months. $40 shipped obo. Minimal wear on it, no rips. I used it with my XPS M1730 that I just sold and replaced with a 13" macbook pro. It fit the XPS great, with tons of room for everything else. http://www.targus.com/US/product_det...p?sku=TCG216US

XPS 1730 w/8800 SLI
About 6 months old. Has dual 8800's Core2Duo 2.4 2GB RAM 250gB SATA drive 1920 x 1200 screen two power adapters Dell XPS backpack 1700 shipped ground from FL. (OBO)

For Sale or Trade Dell XPS M1710
Up for sale or possable trade for Dell XPS M1330 with LED screen (close to the same configuration as the M1710). This is a Dell factory refurbished fully loaded laptop with two years of Dell complete care warranty that can be transfered to the new owner. The laptop was purchased 8/4/2008, the reason ...

FS Dell 7900gs for E1705/9400/M1710
*Edit... Price not set in stone PM me with *reasonable* offers Hello Everyone. Looking to build a new system so selling my extra laptop items. This video card comes new from my Dell E1705/9400 Laptop. It is brand new as I just got it from a new batch dell has under a warranty replacement (I upd ...

Dell Studio 1537 C2D p8400 2.26 320GB HD 4GB RAM with 2 year Complete Care
Selling my wifes Studio 1537 she got it in December 08. She doesnt use it and we could use the money so our loss your gain. Complete care warranty til 12/27/10 320GB Hard Drive 4GB RAM 15.4 WXGA LED Monitor 6Cell Batter 12v Power Adapter Windows Vista Home Premium Fingerprint Scanner 8x DVD+/-RW ...

WTB: ATI HD3650 MXMII GPU
Just throwing this out here... If someone has an HD3650 for sale from a parted laptop or otherwise I may be interested. I don't need it so I'm not going to pay a whole lot for it. I am just interested in seeing if its any better than the 8600M GT in my Compal IFL90 and maybe using one to mod having ...

Alienware Area 51m 766 $350
I bought this for myself about a week ago as a secondary machine, but now I dont need it after building myself a second quad core desktop, so I am selling it for what I paid for it, and I thought I would give you guys a shot at it before going ebay, I did check ebay prices, and it looks like most of ...


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How To Choose a Linux Distribution
Project Time.... Since this is something that comes up often, there was a recent article floating around the internet that breaks down one person's viewpoint of distributions for people to look at for different purposes, that may be useful reading for any newcomers looking at Linux. For those ...

Overclock D600 1.6G to 2.13G (hardware modification with photos)
I knew there is a soft way to do so, but I really like to find out another way Now come with me, I'd like to share my experience with all you guys. This is hardware modification! You play this on your own risk! The most headache is that the position of PLL IC is different from most others( ...

Power jack modification. Works for Satellite L300, L305, L350, L355.
If you have one of the following laptops: Toshiba Satellite/Satelite Pro L300, L305/L305D, L350, L355/L355D you have a really good chance that your power jack will get broken soon. The problem is that the base assembly might get broken too. Instead of replacing the base assembly and power jack h ...

[Dell with MediaDirect] XOSL Bootloader, Hardware dual boot made easy
Hi everyone ! Dell laptops come with a second power up button that start a light Windows version aimed for multimedia viewing (MediaDirect). I've always wanted to be able to choose which OS to boot when the MediaDirect button is used. There's already solutions to this, but they don't allow us to b ...


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