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post #101 of 126
4/22/06 at 2:06am
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Originally Posted by czm2000
I feel bad cause I wrote a review praising the 8204 and so many people have been unhappy. But I'm am not exagerating when I say I am still loving mine and I have to be the luckiest guy on the planet because I have build 12/05). I have no problems. The only issue I can reproduce is the gray lines and that doesn't really bother me. I have 2 monitors at work that have that "Problem", so that begs the question is it a "Problem". I'm still a bit toasted about the 533MHz RAM that I still haven't heard back from anyone on that from Tiger Direct or Acer. But other than that, this thing still rocks IMO.
if you think about it.. people usually go to tech forums for troubleshooting, not to say "everything's good". that's why it makes you think that a lot of people are having problems. it's probly the mentality of people i guess.
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post #102 of 126
4/22/06 at 11:32am
Thread Starter 
Good point.
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post #103 of 126
4/22/06 at 2:15pm
@Kohaar
I guess you reached your 3DMark05 score with overclocking? What are your settings, driver and bios versions?
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post #104 of 126
4/23/06 at 3:14pm
I have bios 3312 and my GPU/Memory is set to 519/530. Just enough so it doesn't get any hotter.
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post #105 of 126
4/23/06 at 6:33pm
I get some artifacts (like black lightnings) in Nature Test of 3dMark'03 if I set clocks like this... I could get 8566 and even 8722(!) once (with 519/531) but I want to find safe settings... Anyway, I can't get more than 4985 in 3dMark'05 and I wonder why... If my 3dMark'03 scores are a little bit higher than yours, I shoud get at least the same score as you in 3dMark'05, right? I've seen someone with 8204 getting 5200 '05 score, but I don't think that it is possible to overclock mine so high - as I said, I was able to get artifacts even with your settings...
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post #106 of 126
4/24/06 at 4:57am
It could be a driver "issue" that your 3Dmark05 is lower. I use the Omega Driver.
3Dmark05 test on different things than 3Dmark03 does. The Nvidia 7600 get higher scores than the X1600 in 3Dmark03 and 06 but the X1600 get higher scores in 05, so since you get artifacts and I don't it could also have something to do with that.

I haven't tried to OC it higher. I just went for a setting where I got no artifacts and where the graphicscard didn't see to get hotter.
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post #107 of 126
4/24/06 at 5:24am
I've never tried to overclock mine running on Omegas, but scores on default settings were worse than on Acer 6.3 in my case. BTW, what are your 3dMark'06 scores, did you test it?
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post #108 of 126
4/24/06 at 5:32am
I have never tried the 06 version. It was so big, so I didn't download it :-)

I used the 05 version, just to test if my graphics setting were ok, and then I got the 03 version because one on another forum wantet my scores.
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post #109 of 126
4/25/06 at 5:31am
I use Omega Drivers my Scores are below.
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post #110 of 126
4/25/06 at 2:22pm
Downloaded 3DMark 06 and without OC I get exactly the same score. Strange when I get 4500 in 3DMark 05.
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post #111 of 126
4/25/06 at 2:48pm
I had 2009 and 4530 using Acer 6.3 and 3312 BIOS with no OC...
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post #112 of 126
4/25/06 at 2:55pm
Just OC'ed and got 2215. Could probaly get it higher, but don't want to take any chances.
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post #113 of 126
4/25/06 at 3:11pm
Have anyone been able to get SuperPI down to 1:10?
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post #114 of 126
4/30/06 at 1:29am
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Originally Posted by kohaar
It could be a driver "issue" that your 3Dmark05 is lower. I use the Omega Driver.
3Dmark05 test on different things than 3Dmark03 does. The Nvidia 7600 get higher scores than the X1600 in 3Dmark03 and 06 but the X1600 get higher scores in 05, so since you get artifacts and I don't it could also have something to do with that.

I haven't tried to OC it higher. I just went for a setting where I got no artifacts and where the graphicscard didn't see to get hotter.
How are you monitoring temps..just watching for artifacting and keeping an eye on stability?

There isn't a sensor on the gpu is there? just hd, cpu.

I am doing some overclocking on mine as well.
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post #115 of 126
4/30/06 at 8:28am
Yep. Did a lot of 3DMark tests and looked for artifacts while chekking if the chassis became hotter. ;-)
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post #116 of 126
4/30/06 at 8:31am
Thread Starter 
http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm#anchor_download works great now.
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post #117 of 126
4/30/06 at 10:23am
Which CPU settings do you use?
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post #118 of 126
5/15/06 at 11:10pm
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=152212
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post #119 of 126
6/20/06 at 3:35pm
so should i buy or not ? ;-)

i'm asking because going thru the specs this lap is the bestest ;-), but after reading this thread ... You all know :-)

is it worth the money ?

or maybe You could point me any better notebook i could buy...
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post #120 of 126
6/20/06 at 4:13pm
Thread Starter 
Go for it.
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