Ratmyr's Review of the Hypersonic-GX7 - Excellent - Page 3

Hi Ratmyr, I have a question for you... How much does your GX7 weigh exactly. I am seeing a big difference in weight between the 8790 and the GX7. The following information was taken from Sager and Hypersonic websites

Sager 8790: Weight: 10.5lbs. with Battery
Hypersonic GX7: Weight (Including Battery) 8.8lbs

How is it the GX7 weighs so much lesser though both lappys are based on the same clevo model? If the weights are really correct then I am ready to pay any premium for the GX7! Can you tell me the weight of your fully loaded GX7?

I am trying to move 9 gigs of mp3s to a laptop...i tried over my wireless (g) and it would just time out and appeared to be getting 200k a sec trasfers (or less)....why so slow?

I bought an ethernet card for my desktop and am just going to connect them directly to transfer...will that be faster? How fast? 100mbs or 10mbs? (and if only 10, how come) thanks.

How much distance do you get with your wireless connection at 108Mbps? I have the same setup with a D-Link DWL-2100AP with my AX7 and it is not working at 108 Mbps and I'm only getting like 20 feet away at a very low connection. Any suggestions? I'd really appretiate it. Thanks.

Are you talking to me or the original poster?

Actually, it was the poster, but if you can answer as well, then by all means let me know. Thank you.

if its cutting out 20ft away then I would say somethign might be wrong.

I have a dlink 624 wireless router and will give my expereince with that.

Hmm, well, all I can say is I have been dissapointed with the performance of our wireless connection. It cuts out when people are on the phone, and you cant even do computer-to-computer transfers over the network, as the speed is so slow. But it works great as far as surfing the web, giving me full speed...so that hasn't been a problem or bottleneck...

As far as the connectoin, the windows wireless thing reports it usually flucuating betwene 54mbs and 24mbs. The wireless has the 108mbs capability but I have never tried it (we have the USB adapter that only goes up to 54mbs). Using the dlink software, it always says "Poor connection" (or "Good" at best) even if its at 54mbs, so maybe thats just based on 108mbs and it thinks its only connecting half speed? I dont know. I dont use that software anyways, just the built in windows software which says excellent when its at 54mbs (which lately has been pretty consistent, since updating to a USB2.0 PCI card). We have two computers (one in the basement) hooked up with USB adapters. They seem to work well, but occasionly I would need to reboot the computer to have it recognised the USB adapter again, but that doens't happen after upgrading to a USB2.0 PCI card....

so yeah, basically i have always had it report with the dlink software usually "Poor" (or "Good") even when its at 54mbs (never "Excellent"), and using either that or the built in windows wireless (which usually says "Excellent") the speed constantly seems to be flucuating between 54mbs and 24mbs and even down to 2bms. But even since upgrading to the USB2.0 PCI card like I said, it seems a lot more consistent at 54mbs.

When my friends come over, they all have brand new laptops (we're going to college!) with wifi, two are dells, one is a no-name, and they connect instantly no problem and the router doesn't seem to slow down at all with 5 computers on the wireless. (i wonder how many can connect at once?) The most annoying thing is when someone gets on the phone the entire wireless system goes down.

I have been more or less happy with the dlink router, although I find the control panel quite confusing and wish it was easier to configure to forward ports for games.

As far as distance, the basement computer works fine through two floors, and we once tested the distance by taking a laptop down the driveway to see how far it could go...it cut out about the bottom of the driveway (i know that doens't really mean much...but I would say maybe 75-100ft away?) I do pick up a connection from my house when it scans, i dunno, it must be my neighbors.

that was more of a review, than a specific answer to your question, but i hope it helped. I am basically trying to say, wifi isn't exactly as consistent and reliable as I expected, even without wireless phones around (and especially with the phones).

Lucky---I cant even begin to transfer large collections of files over the wireless...the MP3's (11gig) would go at about 200k a sec, and then cut out after a while...I had to buy a crossover cable and connect the desktop and my friends laptop to transfer him my music...

I have a dlink 624...what type of wireless router do you have (which doesn't suck at transfering files)?

Hey ratmyr, your scaring me......do you see a need for 2 gigs of RAM? I as well orderd 2 512 sticks.

First to the video card thing, you stated yours came clocked at 417/270, this I do not understand as mine came stock with 270/405. I am using the omega drivers right now but plan on making a ghost image of omega and straight hypersonic drivers because I am leaving for a military school soon and heard about some conflicts. But I have no artifacting and with omega pull a 3448 on 3DMark03. This is with the 2.8 system, that is our only difference. I would definetly call hypersonic as you should get it all replaced as they stated they do not overclock the cards at all and sell them at the factory settings, so if yours cannot run at it, I would let them fix it instead of comming up with a work around. I know I would.

Also, for the idea of buying a system with just a 1gig stick of ram, that is a bad idea. First of all without the double sticks you are getting alot less performance as it is needs two sticks to run. And second, you would end up with mix/matched sticks of ram. You are better off with how you purchased it.

I only have been coding and playing some EA Sports games so far, basically got it to play eq2 on it as I travel around.

Let me know what hypersonic says about your vid card, and dont worry about your ram purchase, this way in the end is better. Also, realize your bios has it built in to not let the CAS go below 3, so dont buy super low cas unless you plan on flashing hte bios with some third party system. Atleast that is the official work HS gave me when I questioned there ram as they advertise 2.5, they say it is 2.0-2.5 by CLEVO said due to heat issues found that making it 3 made the system run more stable for barely unnoticable performance. HS offered to send me two sticks hard coded to make them run at 2.5 but couldnt guarrentee the bios would let them do it. Just help you save a few bucks when you buy the ram, also let me know the price and type you get as I am also interested in it, but think I will wait a bit until the 1gig sticks drop in price a bit. Then through mine in my wifes dell.

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Ratmyr,
I am curious, now that you have had your GX7 for awhile, have you played Doom 3 on it? If so, what settings, fps, etc?

I so cannot wait to order (and get) mine.

Jealousy is such a bad thing!!

Seriously, I hope you are still enjoying it.
--the Witchdoctor

I don"t mean to butt in on Ratmyr reply but, my GX7 does a good job with doom3 -1024x768 med. settings with no lagging. I'm very happy with the performance of this laptop, it's fastest notebook that I've ever used. I never got the FPS on Doom but you need to tweak the settings in the game- that really helps.

how did u change the bootscreen?.. that looks really cool

Thanks, 4speed!

I am so stoked for this laptop. Cannot wait much longer!