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m9700 aka Evesham Quest Nemesis ordered /wave Aaronjb

post #1 of 10
8/17/06 at 2:58pm
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Well as I've said in previous posts, I was waiting to find out if our work bonus would be paid before I ordered a new laptop, well today we were told.

So I've ordered an Evesham Quest Nemesis (same Arima as the m9700)

With:

2x512MB 7900 (SLI) 1920 x 1200
2GB RAM
Media Center Windows
Remote control and receiver
ML-44 Turion 64
Twin 100GB 7200 Drives

And including delivery is: £1908-92, which I think is a pretty good price!

No idea how long before delivery.

So Aaronjb, any advice for me? Which drivers should I use? Any particular issues I need to think about (wireless card problems etc..).



UKB
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post #2 of 10
8/21/06 at 2:21pm
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34 views and no reply, probably all anti-Evesham

Maybe I should push for an Evesham forum to get out of yoo's hair, but it really is an AW M9700 under a diff. badge honest! And I'm just as excited as you all!



UKB
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post #3 of 10
8/21/06 at 2:26pm
Evenin' - pretty much the same setup as mine, except I didn't go for the remote & receiver.. I'd be interested to see pics of that

As for the drivers - I'm currently running the latest of everything, which means I used a combination of the Arima CD, the Alienware stuff (linked to in another thread here) and downloaded direct from the manufacturers..

Off the top of my head:

AMD drivers from AMD (v1.3)
nForce platform drivers direct from nVidia
AW 84.74 nVidia GPU drivers
WiFi drivers from the manufacturer (since the ones on the Arima CD are for a RealTek - wrong card!)
AW function key controller (v1.5) - better than Arimas

The rest came off the Arima CD

I think my install order was - AMD, nForce platform, nVidia GPU then the rest in any ol' order.
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post #4 of 10
8/21/06 at 3:21pm
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Who is the manufacturer of the wireless card?
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post #5 of 10
8/21/06 at 3:45pm
RaLink Technology Inc, and it's the RT61/RT2500 drivers you want:
http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
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post #6 of 10
8/21/06 at 5:36pm
Good for you UKBananas, it is indeed the same base platform as the m9700. There are a few minor differences, but in the UK you can save a pocketful of pounds by going with Evesham over Alienware.

Is Evesham still using 333MHz memory, or have they bumped up to the 400MHz yet?
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post #7 of 10
8/23/06 at 4:03am
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Yeh it's still the 333MHz, but judging from Aaronjb's benchies it doesn't make a huge difference, although I think Aaronjb is a bit of a wizard

UKB
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post #8 of 10
8/23/06 at 6:22am
Heh - nah, I just had time on my hands

I'm tempted to get some 400MHz RAM and see what the difference is, but I suspect it wouldn't be huge (maybe a hundred or so 3DMark05 points), and not really worth shelling out on the RAM twice over.
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post #9 of 10
8/23/06 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by aaronjb
Heh - nah, I just had time on my hands

I'm tempted to get some 400MHz RAM and see what the difference is, but I suspect it wouldn't be huge (maybe a hundred or so 3DMark05 points), and not really worth shelling out on the RAM twice over.

As soon as I get mine, I'll be posting the numbers... Only thing is all the hardware varies a little so it's impossible to compare directly without some error factor.

The only way to know for sure would be to compare the different memory speeds in the same unit, but I'm not sending you my memory so you can test it. You want to send your memory to me? It doesn't even sound like I'll be able to clock down the memory for testing as there are no options in the bios.

I can't imagine it will really make that much of a difference. Memory isn't usually the limiting hardware in a system... especially when you have 2G.
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post #10 of 10
8/23/06 at 7:26pm
Ah c'mon HH, you know you want to post your RAM to me really

You're right on the benchmarks, though - one thing that would give at least a comparable figure would be some pure RAM throughput figures.. but that doesn't help in terms of real world performance.

If anything I expect to get a larger boost when doing desktop tasks compared to gaming - the biggest RAM shuffle during gaming is going to be texture swapping, and with 512Mb cards I imagine that is going to happen fairly rarely.

Still.. back to back tests would be good. Perhaps one day
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