Acer Ferrari 3200 review (just a few pics/couple benches) - Page 23

Hello! I just want to know if Ferrari 3200's wireless network card supports 802.11b wireless before buying D-Link DI-714P+ wireless router.

Thanks for your time

It supports both b and g.

and bluetooth , but that doesn't pertain to your router.

Hi
The top left corner of the Ferrari 3200 keyboard (e.g, Esc, `,1, F1) seems louder than the other parts of the keyboard, is anyone experiencing the same thing as me?

It's called a fan

Joking aside, the fan will be rather loud if alwas have the CPU running at 100% usage. Check the task manager. Also, it fan will be on when playing games.

sry i meant the sound when you are pressing the keys on the keyboard

lol digishaman, the top left corner of my external keyboard is kinda loud too, does it have a fan too? lmao seriously, it could be that the material or lack thereof under that part of the keyboard may be different, so the keyboard could possibly sound a bit louder. i notice this kind of thing happening on external keyboards as well, though it's usually on larger keys like the backspace or space bar. it shouldnt be a problem, so long as it's not accompanied by keyboard flexing.

No way, the Ferrari 3200 is visually a true feast for the eyes



The only redneck here must be yourself

However, it seems rather obvious that you're quite envyous about its shiny classic Ferrari red color and good looks. It's supposed to distinguish itself from all those grey and boring notebooks out there you know

Perhaps battery life is very important to you, but for me its a non-issue as I'm on A/C power 99% of the time anyways. I just need a powerful system I easily can take to and from work, and this beauty is very powerful indeed but still got a pretty decent battery life for the 1% of the time I'm on the road. Why should I waste more money on a system with only slightly better battery life if I'd never use it anyways? No, the Acer Ferrari 3200 certainly represents an excellent compromise of features and is a damn good buy I think.

Far from it, I was merely pointing out the major flaws in the benchmark methods used in many of the reviews in these forums. A couple of benches is by far enough to describe the overall performance of a system, contrary to what a few people still believes

Actually, 480/250 only represents a 6%/19% O/C while 206 HTT accounts for only a 3% O/C. In comparison with other systems this thus represents a quite moderate O/C and I also know that this baby can be pushed much further performance wise

Yeah, Filla, you surely got your bad taste off your chest

Original setup / what u get for the price:

80 GB 4200 RPM
512 333 DDR RAM
M11 at 445 core / 209 MEM
3DMark 01 - 10898
3DMark 03 - 3028
Aquamark 3 - 26182
Batterilife: 2,5 hours (Toms hardware guide)

SNorrehs setup
60 GB 7200 RPM
1 GB Corsair 400 DDR RAM
M11 at 485 / 250 , CPU OCd to 206 (2060 GHZ ?)
3DMark 01 - 12916 (10698 orig)
3DMark 03 . 3637 (3028 orig)
Aquamark 3 29911 (26182 orig)
Batterilife: About the only thing he didnt test it seems, he says ca. 3 hours (which is the first time i see that overcloking ADDs batteri life)



Is there a point ?
I have no problem seeing that Snorreh got some fantastic benchies / scores out of his laptop. Totally swithching ut RAM (1 GB Corsair 400 RAM = $$$$), brand new 7200 RPM HD (200 $?), 19% OC on the M11 MEM brought the OK scores on the Ferrari to magnificent ones. the UPPGRADES and OVERCLOCKING he did is what made these great scores. For the vast majority of the buyers that ends up with the 3200, they dont even comes NEAR this score. This is a Ferrari 3200 ala Snorreh (a Snoreeh 3200 ?).

Now, im not sour or jealous. I can all honestly say that for the $$ he has spend, i would rather buy a IBM T41P (thats just me). Ill even say it again SNORREH GOT A VERY FAST LAPTOP !!!!! And my comments of the look / colour got exactly the responses i expected. I only wish that when people after reading his review / sig, buys a 3200, they wont be to disapointed and leftout, when they turn on a laptop that is almost 20% slower than the one they got so amazed over at www.notebookforums.com

/hug snorreh (det er en kjempelaptop du har)

Actually, the newer 7200RPM drives use less power then the 4200RPM. So ya, Snorre battery life might increased.

Who buys a laptop just 'cause it's on some guys signature?

Also, you can sell the original parts and a load of the money back...

just because it's in someone's signature? well let's see, how many people have bought 8790/5690/Area-51m's just based on those people with them in their sigs' reviews of their wonderful lappys? lol dont mean to be rude or anything but if a lot of people start buying one kind of lappy and give it rave reviews, that prolly means that its pretty good right? lol

Okle, your handle icon is funny. But the more and more I look at it. Well....it's rather disturbing. I mean, that's really creepy looking seeing to bananas banging eachother.

Firstly I'm not done testing the battery time on my Acer Ferrari 3200 yet (testing battery life takes a lot of time!), secondly I don't use any proprietary battery benchmark tools that's not freely available like THG did (I find this pretty lame too). For general usage with everything back to defaults I have no problems getting 3 hours battery life on this baby, that's the only thing I can say for sure so far.

It may also seem like the Hitachi Travelstar's adaptive battery life extender (A.B.L.E.) helps lower the energy use slightly on average, but I'm not 100% sure about this.

Not really, I'm pretty sure everyone can get some great results with the stock memory as well costing them 0 dollars.

It's really simple, just download A64tweaker, run it and set MEMCLK Frequency to 200 while also upping RAS to CAS Delay (Trcd) a notch. (P.S. This tweak applies to all Athlon 64 notebooks I think.)

To verify that your memory really runs at DDR400 speeds, just download and run CPU-Z.

Don't be ridiculous, the IBM Thinkpad T41P costs almost 50% more than the grand total I've put into the Acer Ferrari 3200. First you claim it's ugly, now you claim it's too expensive, I wonder what's next?

Where did you come up with that number? On average I find my Acer Ferrari 3200 to be just a couple of percent faster than the stock Acer Ferrari 3200.

It's pretty straight forward for anyone to enable the "Always On" power scheme and tweak/overclock the GPU with Powerstrip, the CPU with ClockGen (CG-ICS950405) and the memory with A64tweaker.

Anyways, I'm really confident that everyone that buys the Acer Ferrari 3200 will be pretty pleased with its performance no matter what

Takk

right on snorre

Can't wait till I get my ferrari!!!!!! or maybe that aw aurora...depends how much it cost.

I wonder if the Aurora is going to be offered through powernotebooks or discountlaptops...

Proper battery benchmarks

I've now also done some comprehensive benchmarking of the battery life of this beauty.

Setup

Laptop: Acer Ferrari 3200
CPU: AMD low-power Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8GHz, 512KB L2 cache)
RAM: 1GB DDR400 (2x Corsair XMS3200 (2.5-3-3-6) 512MB SO-DIMMs)
GFX: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (128MB, AGP8X, FW/SB=On)
HDD: Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 60GB 7200RPM (8MB cache)
O/S: MS Windows XP Professional SP1 (NTFS), Omega Drivers 2.5.58

P.S. The system has been tweaked for optimal battery.

Benchmark results

• Normal use (1):
  3 hours and 11 minutes
  
• Watching DVD's (2):
  2 hours and 42 minutes
  
• Playing games (3):
  2 hours and 31 minutes

Notes

1. Web, email, instant messenger, office, image editing, music, video clips, system management, etc.
2. The Lord of the Rings (78% completed) with Windows Media Player 9 (PowerDVD 5 audio/video codecs) & DVDIdle 5.12 (caching).
3. Far Cry at 1024x768x32 resolution with default settings.

Conclusion

The maximum battery capacity is 66778 mWh, and with proper conditioning I got a maximum battery life of 3 hours and 26 minutes with light work and no internet/music. The difference between battery life of the stock Acer Ferrari 3200 and mine only accounts for +/- 5 minutes. All in all, I think that this laptop system indeed has a pretty decent battery life by any means

wow that's good! 2:42 with a dvd on battery? wtf are you doing with the system to make it last so long? and 2:30 gaming? DAMN! thats some amazing battery conditioning you've done there!