HP Compaq Presario V6000 if you have one what do you think?

I got the v6101. It has the 1.8GHz sempron, 512mb ram, and only an 80gig hard drive. got it from fred meyer for 300 dollars. Being an employee can have its bonus'. Only thing is, the integrated wireless does not work. the light stays orange wether the switch is on or off...

I got a dual core turion, 120hdd 1gb ram for $700 new at circuit city in august of that year.

So maybe u should've looked around for better deals...

Mine is a Vista based Presario V6211AU AMD X2 dual core, 512 RAM with DVD+RW drive, 120 gig with bluetooth. the finish is too good and the blue LED lights are so pleasing to see. Also have XP installed and thing just flies. Only grievance the Quickplay direct dont work with VISTA and now the laptop is spoilt cause of HW ID erasure.

I have a Presario notebook, V6106AU. The processor type being AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50, 1.1 volts. Core speed clocked @ 1607.2MHz and Bus speed at 200.9MHz. I have 2048 Megabytes of DDR2 ram (1024 kingston, 1024 crucial ram) and finally a Quanta motherboard (model 30B7) with a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 chipset and southibridge has NVIDIA nForce 410/430 MCP (BIOS brand: Hewlett-Packard, version f.28)

I've been looking to find either: an upgrade of the processor, 1.6GHz doesn't cut it performance wise with the processor, i.e games; or a way to overclock this CPU. I have been trying to find a processor that would be compatible (its package is "Socket S1 (638)") and have had no luck.

Looking around at overclocking potentials, I have been dismayed to see it is not a very wise move to overclock laptops because of cooling problems etc., however I only really want to overclock it a couple of hundred MHz (i.e to 1.9/ 2.0GHz)

Please would someone help me out with this, it is a relatively good laptop, now with 2GB ram (originally 512MB) and I really want to make it a "higher end" laptop.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, any advice is highly appreciated.



Harry

HEY you got the same as mine! :P

I'm getting pairs of Kingston 1GB DDR2 667MHz tommorow.

Wow that is the same ahahaha! (what does "OCed 2GHz / 1GHz T" mean?)

Cool, pairs are better as they work with one another or something better than two seperate types.. Pity I had not saved all the money and bought two at once rather than 1 one week and another the next.

I have a question for you, I'm sure you saw that the video card is able to increase its MB size as you increase your RAM. Any idea how to do that? (The BIOS only lets you select 128 Meg for VRAM)

Pairs of same amount of RAM will enable dual channels on chipset and AMD CPU take alot advantage on that. I'm going to find out how much performance boost with dual channels by tonight!

The BIOS, Pfff... is quite pity for sure xD. Geforce 6150 comes with 64MB dedicated VRAM and maximun you can load system RAM to share with it is 128MB, total is 192MB VRAM, but since 192MB is not common most system info programs report as you have 256MB VRAM.. which is false T___T *DAMMIT* .. And that's the only way to add VRAM to intergrated GPUs.

How can i game with a graphic card with only 192MB!

The "OCed 2GHz / 1GHz HT" mean OverClocked to 2GHz and 1GHz HyperTransport. It should be 1.2GHz HyperTransport but dunno why reported as 1GHz. If you check out my "!!! OCed WOOT !!!" on my sig :P

I got my pairs of Kingston 1GB DDR2 667MHz for only $144 bucks.. $72 each, not bad aye?

EDIT: In reply to the thread, the only downside of this laptop (my laptop) would be its system 'parallel line'. That 'parallel line' is like a large motor freeway with all the vehicals (data) going up and down so fast, and traffic can be easily interrupted when another module started or in progress share with other module. Those modules are Wireless, Bluetooth, HD Audio, HD 56K Modem and Card Reader. I think they all share the same parallel line. To think about it agian they all on south bridge chip. So that parallel line may have refer to HyperTransport or nForce 410/430MCP...... Hmm

Yeah I got Kinston at 79 USD and the Crucial RAM at maybe 80 something USD (incl. delivery to New Zealand in 4 days :P)

192MB!? IT SAYS UP TO 256!!! THAT IS MISREPRESENTATION!! I should sue Compaq for malpractise :P... as if that would ever be taken seriously. I have mine on max VRAM *128* and in the NVIDIA properties it says "512MB available"

All the jargon and close reading in what a computer company says, one thing meaning another, really starts to get on your nerves...

I await the day for custom building laptops as the consumer sees fit (at a reasonable price)....

Oh I understand (I think? :S) may I ask how it is you managed to overclock you CPU (if you did it on your Presario.) It has gotten to the point I am about to say "f*ck it" and buy AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core TL-60 processor - 2.0GHz (512KB Level-2 cache per core, 1600MHz front side bus)... Which, as far as I am aware and can tell, is the
same as my AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (except better)

You don't know if it will comply do you?

Even 3DMark05/06 reports as 256MB?? I've done 3DMark too long ago can't remember a thing. The only game engine program report as 192MB VRAM gave me a huge shock, that's why i've taken action to investigate. Results: *Cry Out Loud*

My dream brand is 17' Alienware or Sager or Voodoo gaming laptop. Yea right, a dream.. lol

Didn't you done some research to boost performance on your hardware or thinking about a clue? AMD system using nVidia chipset, and nVidia offers tuning utilities to overclock! Download nTune at nVidia site. At manual tuning, i just set the HTT to max 250MHz and apply xD lol. Other stuffs are mostly locked up.

I don't notice a performance boost as i haven't test it yet. Even is 2GHz at CPU but at My Computer properties still report as 1.6GHz. And changing CPU is not possible as is fixed on mainboard.

OK, 3rd day after installed dual Kingston 1GB 667MHz CL5 RAM! Sure it enabled dual channels. At first i experienced random restart, it seems like lack of power. I was furious. Second day was fine than shutdown unexpectedly. I was angry, eventually contacted with HP Online customer service and they said that there's RAM compatibility issues. I mean, that's bulllocks! I was worring about the heat, as is quite hot at the bottom, but relised is not a problem at all.

I than switched the RAM with different slot and flashed the BIOS. Hopefully is all done. I've been doing many stuffs lately and had no problem. The only thing i noticed is that windows barely use more than 512MB, i think because that windows was installed with only 512MB of RAM. A fresh reinstall of windows should fix this.

Performance boosted slightly as dual channels is enabled. Game run slightly faster, but DirectX reported VRAM as 512MB avaliable when shared 128MB VRAM on BIOS. Which is a BIG false. I have reported this to HP while chatting with them but they didn't gave me a respond about this.

Also when set a password to protect HDD, i really hate the loud "BEEP" sound on boot up when prompt you to enter the password. Damn it..

Hey dude,wats the battery backup on ur laptop on a full harge.

V6000t

I purchased a V5000Z originally however the keyboard had issues and they sent me this one so I guess you could say it is my second lappy. I was blown away by the finish and brightview screen with all the bells and whistles the other one lacked. The core solo held it's own for about a month. Put 2x1gig OCZ's in, got a 120 WD HD and duel booted XP home with Vista Ultimate. Last week I put a T7200 and it now can keep ME hoppin. Looking for an Intel MOBO for a graphics improvement. I task the thing everyday, next month will be a year and I have no complaints the hardware has lasted well riding in my saddle bags as I like to ride my Rocket III

First let me apologise I disapproved of your post by accident. I thought it was the computer I was talking about. Really sorry. Tried to change it to approve when I realised but it wouldn't let me. Anyway I do think your post is informative and couldn't agree more about the software. There's far to much rubbish on it. I got mine in July this year but unfortunately it has taken a mad turn and I've lost everything including email and a folder with my website in it. The screen went large then small the coloured squares all along the top of the screen. Now it makes a click sound when I press the spacebar, enter button etc. I'm terrified my harddrive will go. i thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread when I got it. I had a vaio before but at least it gave me 31/2 years before giving up on me.

The Presario V6000 is a piece of junk. After my warranty ran out my s video out now only can transmit to the TV in black and white, and now after about 18 months the wireless went out and I guess this is a problem. this Piece of crap is falling apart. So far my eithernet is still working. Im just waiting for that to go out to. I will never buy anything made by HP ever again. In fact maybe I will try an apple computer I hear they are better made

As with any expensive piece of electronics gear with so many components something will go wrong eventually. Thanks for the heads up. I will get another extended warranty. Lets see, that last one covered the battery which they upgraded to the biggest available. The power cord the dog chewed on. A new mobo due to a bad bios flash. A note to consider though is that very few manufacturers of make them for lots of brands. I took a look and the same one that built mine builds apples, and many others. Good luck!