My Aviator CX5 (compal CL56) - Page 2

nice fully decked out system

thanks, i hope it lives up to my expectations... they've been building for quite some time.

I also just got into fooling around with some Omega drivers for the 9700pro that i use in my desktop, and tried tooling with radlinker. I bumped my aquamark03 from 36,000 to 37,600 with a tiny clockspeed adjustment. Does anyone know if you can OC the gpu in the Cl56? Is overheating a huge concern? (even if its just a tiny bit ) Also, i have only seen 3d01 scores for the cl56 using banias chips (1.7 mostly). Any word if a 2.0 dothan will bump it higher? or is the bottleneck elsewhere?

you can oc the gpu in everynotebook, although its not recommended by resellers...

just know that the cooling properties and thermal designs of a notebook are no where as great as that of your desktop, so if you do decide to oc, do so sparingly... a good way to do this is to find the limit/treshhold of how high you can go, than if you want to OC for something, do so at 5-15%

i dont think ive seen any benchies for a 2.0 dothan in the CL56 ... but if you test 3dmark03 it will strictly test your GPU. aquamark will combine both cpu and gpu scores so you will get slightly better performance i imagine (since its bumping the core speed up 300mhz), but again this is all synthetic benchmark speaking, if you pay attention to the FPS score in the upper right hand corner of aquamark, thats the real world performance... a score of 25000 vs 26000 is gonna be like less than 1 fps :P

yeah, i figured its not going to be a NEXT LEVEL performance bump... but something just to do as a hobby. a real concern of mine is whether such a laptop has ANY business attempting to play Doom3 or HL2 when it comes out. I know that its possible, but like the people with Gforce4's playing BF1942.... it just isnt meant to be.

Has anyone tested the CL56 on a Battlefield game?

How about the biggest GPU hogging game of all time: Starcraft?

Hypersonic's dead pixel policy is more than just making sure your system doesn't ship with any dead pixels. Hypersonic does not ship systems if any dead pixels appeared during their 72-hour burn-in period, regardless of whether you got the extra dead pixel guarantee or not. Any respectable retailer (including Powernotebooks.com) should agree to do the same (assuming they bothered to power up the unit before shipping it to you). However, if upon receipt you discover dead pixels, you may be eligible for replacement depending on the retailer's return policy:

- Hypersonic's default dead pixel policy will replace the screen if you have so much as 1 dead pixel in the center of the screen (2 dead pixels in the center of the screen for 17" systems), or 2 dead pixels anywhere else (3 or more on the 17" systems) during the length of your warranty. Hypersonic pays for the cost of shipping any replacement parts as well. The additional dead pixel guarantee has a zero-tolerance - any dead pixels appearing in the first 30 days are sufficient cause to return the system. Of course, HS's 30-day satisfaction guarantee allows you to return the system within 30 days for a full refund, regardless of how many dead pixels you may or may not find .

- Powernotebooks' warranty, on the other hand, states that LCDs are only considered defective if they have 5 or more dead pixels anywhere on the screen. You are responsible for paying any shipping costs. There does not appear to be any way to alter or upgrade this policy.

i think farcry is a good idea of what doom3/hl2 will be like

im just using that game as a reference point coz its the most graphically intensive game out right now...

im going to make an estimation that if you can run farcry good with all details on high, you can run doom3/hl2 fairly well

Congrats on your laptop man. I bought mine with an AMEX card. They got one of those 2years warentee extension cards. They will cover you up to 10k which is more than enough to replace my laptop in 2 years. If it decides to break down on me of course.

One thing I didn't like about buying this laptop through Mwave was the fact that my billing was the same as my shipping, but they still required me to fax them a copy of my id and credit card for some reason. It was a hassle because that delayed my shipping.

hey rince, how did you squeeze out that score on 3dmark01? I just tested mine and its doing 10900.

That was run with my core/mem set to 480/255

I was just trying to find the limititations to my GPU... I run it @ stock settings normally

Not as wrong as you think...

I play Natural-Selection (Another Half-Life mod) on my desktop. Suffice it to say, my performance isn't the greatest, I get 30-40FPS at certain spots.

My system?

Radeon 9700 Pro
AMD AthlonXP 1900+
768MB PC133 SDRAM

uh... he was referring to the MR9700, not a desktop card
it was sarcasm

I realize that. He was saying, at least, this is how I interpreted it, that the Radeon 9700 Mobility was so powerfull that it was overkill for Counter-Strike. As my reply states, Half-Life still runs like crap on even more powerful cards.

heading in a tangent, but HL runs bread and butter on my desktop w/ 9500P. HL2 as well... hehe yeah I'm talking about the leaked one.

I've ordered 2 cx5s from hypersonic (one for myself and one for my cousin). Ordered mine on 6/18/04 (expected to ship 6/8/04) and my cousins on 6/17/04 (expected to ship 6/5/04).

They say mine shipped today, but im yet to recieve an email for tracking. My cousins hasn't shipped yet which kind of confuses me since his was ordered first. I guess they really don't work in order of date placed. Hopefully they'll be here soon enough.