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post #21 of 36
4/20/04 at 1:29pm
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The tecra m2 is 4x agp as many notebooks are unless you purchase extreme gaming notebooks. There is very little difference in performance of 4x agp and 8x.

As for the 32mb or 64mb of video ram. IT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE!!! Many games today require a minimum of 64mb of video ram. I would strongly suggest getting the 64mb of ram you wont regret it.
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post #22 of 36
4/22/04 at 6:26pm

Toshiba Tecra M2 3D Mark 2003 score

I have just completed my benchmarking of my Toshiba Tecra M2: P1.7,1gb,60gb-7200rpm, Geforce Go5200 64mb

3D Mark 2003 340 score was: 1253

This is a vast improvement over the Rojak's review located here: Rojak's Review of Geforce Go5200

I have played Battlefield Vietnam on this laptop and Far Cry and both run about the same as my desktop system a P4 2.4, 1gb, 160gb 7200rpm drive with a Geforce Ti-4200 64mb.

This is a plus for the Toshiba Tecra M2.
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post #23 of 36
4/23/04 at 11:48am
cknobman, just curious how long did it take for your order to ship from toshiba? Just ordered mine 2 days ago!
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post #24 of 36
4/23/04 at 5:33pm
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From order time until the day it arrived on my doorstep was 10 days. It might have been faster but it took a couple of days for them to config it because I customized mine instead of buying a prebuilt one.

Ordered direct from toshiba.

Not a bad experience and plus I am 100% happy with my purchase. Smooth transaction and awesome laptop. Honestly the laptop has exceeded my expectations as far as performance and batterylife go. I used to have a POS compaq which couldnt even go 1 hour unplugged.
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post #25 of 36
4/23/04 at 6:11pm
That's good to know, your "review" on your experiences has basically helped decide between the Tecra M2 and the IBM T41. I was on the fence between the 2 but after comparing them, I think you get more for your money with Toshiba. I don't think it's really an issue which is better quality-wise (IMHO).

Thanks again for your opinions here, I don't know about you but I can't stop checking the damn order status hoping for a quicker turn-around lol.
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post #26 of 36
5/6/04 at 3:22am
A review on rojakpot.com on the FX Go5200 says that Toshiba underclocks the graphic and memory core to minimize power consumption. Is this true for the M2? If so, is there a way to clock it back to normal speed? Just curious as I am very interested in this laptop.

Here is the article: http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx...var1=74&var2=0
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post #27 of 36
5/6/04 at 2:01pm

Tecra M2 Go5200 is under clocked

Yes the Toshiba Tecra M2 Go5200 is underclocked at the speeds listed in the rojak review. You can use a piece of software called RivaTuner to adjust the clock speeds of the Go5200 and by the way Rojak has another article about maxing out the Go5200 chipset on his web site. I did a test on my M2 with the settings he recommended and y 3D Mark 2003 returned a 1508 score which is not bad for the Go5200.
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post #28 of 36
5/6/04 at 5:00pm

M2 for me

Well,,,I did it. I placed the order today through Toshiba.

1.4 Ghz
512 MB
40 GB
64 MB VRAM

I had to choose the lower speed processor and the 40 GB HD because I had
a budget of $1600 from by workplace. Will let you all know what my impressions are when I receive it. You've all been great help to me deciding on which notebook to go with. My other choice was a Gateway M505X, but I new that weight and portability was a concern for me, so I went with the M2.

Edit: Too bad Toshiba does not have pre-built M2's with 64 VRAM, otherwise, I would be receiving it sooner.
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post #29 of 36
5/8/04 at 2:50pm
Actually they do, but probably out of the 1600 range. I just got my Tecra M2 S630 2 days ago!

Getting all my dev software loaded and settling in. Wireless works great, have 2 wireless configs; one for home and one for work.

These forums were a big help in my decision as well!
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post #30 of 36
5/14/04 at 6:50pm

Toshiba underclocking graphics

I have confirmed that Toshiba has underclocked the graphics core and ramdac as mentioned in my previous posts. Now, I will like to clock it back to default speeds. I downloaded and installed Rivatuner without any success. Rivatuner will show me what the graphics is clocked at, but I am unable to make any adjustments as the features are grayed out. I am currently using Toshiba provided 46.41 drivers, because the ones from Nvidia could not be detected by the M2. I have also tried the Coolbits registry tweak, but no success there either.

Has anyone been able to clock the Go5200 graphics back to default speeds?
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post #31 of 36
5/20/04 at 4:20pm
I found the URL of the article about how to restore the speed of the go5200 on the Toshiba:

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx...var1=76&var2=0

And by the way, he mentions on page 3 that his driver is "NVIDIA ForceWare Ver. 53.03". Maybe that will help tranrick.

Cheers,

Cliff
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post #32 of 36
5/23/04 at 1:57pm
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Thanks!!!!

Thanks for the post!!!

I downloaded riva tuner like the article stated and set the clock and memory speeds to what they had posted. I saw my 3dmark01se scores go from 6300 to 7750! Pretty good improvement. Like the article states you wont be able to get the clock speeds to 300/600 (which is rated speeds for the fx5200) but I did get reliable performance out of the articles speeds 243/515. I am going to try and go higher since I know those are reliable speeds. This is a pretty good/easy/fast way to increase graphics performance.

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post #33 of 36
5/23/04 at 2:08pm
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Overlcock higher in progress!
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post #34 of 36
5/27/04 at 7:46am
Dear Toshiba Tecra M2 users,

I would enormously appreciate if someone of you could tell me the material the notebook is made of. Is it plastic or some sort of metal alloy?

The screen: How would you rank it? Is it bright enough? Are the viewing angles OK? Is there any New technology for the screens that Toshiba used for Tecra M2 (eg. Fujitu- Crystal View, Sony – Xbright etc.,)? Do you find the 14.1” sufficient for work and games?

Thank you in advance for any kind of indication you can give me.
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post #35 of 36
5/27/04 at 7:36pm
I'm concerned about this to MD....I wear glasses!
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post #36 of 36
5/28/04 at 12:25am
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The notebook material is plastic.

The screen is not bad but not the best. It gets very bright if you choose to make it that way and does not ghost much. The text is very readable and clear. There is no xbrite technology or crystal clear tech. like sony and fujitsu but still looks good none the less.

I have xga resolution because I felt for 14 inch screen sxga would be to small and unecessary.

I chose the toshiba over fujitsu for the graphics because fujitsu has integrated shiaty graphics which not matter what the screen looks like it makes the laptop suck.
I chose the toshiba over sony becuase one week before I bought toshiba I bought sony laptop and took it back!! It was the v505 series and it performed slow with shiaty 4200 rpm hard drive and sony had to much proprietary software. I couldnt even load my own windows xp pro on it!!! Called sony they told me I would have to order their version. That was last straw so I took it back and will never own sony again!!
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