Posts by jethro9001

whats up with this? I've got 100% signal strength and i've got the gigabyte router and internal card that came with the system...in theory i should get 108mb but i would settle for getting the 54mb at least.

Of course Nvidia is going to release something faster...so will ATI, thats the cycle. The trick is in the timing. Nvidia had 2 months of being significantly faster than anything else out there, ATI is going to enjoy a month or two of...

my screen flickers really badly if I turn it up to maximum brightness. This never was a problem before today. Is this a driver issue or a hardware problem with the gpu/lcd?

I said when the 9860 came out that they should have used 400ddr instead of 533ddr2 because it runs in sync with the fsb and actually outperforms the 533 in most apps. The new review of the 7620 bears this out...the when the ram is the...

Here's a set of Framerates I got from Maya using the 3d-test scene from Maya Test-Center This is at the stock settings of 250/600. I've since OC'ed to 300/700 and I haven't written down any of my new frame rates but it looks like...

Quote: Originally Posted by RISP If the fans cannot start with the low voltage that was originally planned to start them then it is a fan problem because the fan cannot start with the low voltage. However, your...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cir Ok I'll get the x800! Just kidding. But it really does illustrate my point that it'd be very helpful to publish some cad/cam results when testing these cards. I'll have to make up...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cir I've been trying to decide what card to get....my order is currently on hold. I'll be using the machine for cad and rendering in max and maya primarily, but will play the occasional game;...

ok I might be looking at it backwards, Isn't the gpu fan the one under the left palmrest?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the gpu fan in this thread yet. My laptop seems to be pretty normal in the cpu temp dept, the sawtooth pattern in mobmeter that cycles every 5-10 mins in websurfing. When just the one cpu fan is on, I...