jebus christ wrote a 3 page review and it got nuked saying i didnt select a forum which was B.S.!!!
Anyhow. I bought a barebones Notebook ASUS L5800GA.
I bought the cpu, ram, and hd separately.
W00t!
Here is a weblink that shows the photos of my laptop!
http://www.darksideinternet.com/gall...023/index.html
Specifications:
ASUS 865PE board is integrated into this laptop.
CPU - Desktop CPU 2.8 GHz 800 MHz FSB 512 Cache.
Important Note: Prescott CPUs will not work in this laptop!!!
RAM - Laptop Memory 512 MBs 2700 PC Corsair
Important Note: I tried 512 MBs 3200 PC 400 MHz RAM did not work!!!
HARD DRIVE - Hitachi 60 Gig 7200 RPMs (yes I typed it right 7200 RPM) with 8 Meg Cache. This is a laptop hard drive not a desktop!!!
VIDEO CARD - ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro 128 DDR (Wow!)
Important Note: Called ASUS and a technician informed me that the video card is upgradeable but they highly suggest they upgrade it themselves. Its upgradeable to a 9700 Pro 128 DDR. Wow! Asus rocks..
DISPLAY - 15 Inch TFT (Some models come with ACE View, mine did not) I highly rate the quality of the LCD.
AUDIO - ASUS has integrated an AC’97 CODEC from Realtek.
NIC CARD - 1000/100/10 RJ-45 Networking is taken care of by a Gigabit Ethernet network controller from 3Com.
COOLING - Uggh. It gets MAD HOT. This will heat up your n#t s#ack a bit.
FLOOPY DRIVE - CDRW/DVD ROM included.
FOUR USB Ports 1.1 / 2 - PRINTER SERIAL - COM 1 & COM 2 PORTS INCLUDED.
FIREWIRE PORT. 2 PCMCIA SLOTS - MIC, HEADPHONE, AUDIO IN JACK, SPDIF.
FLASH CARD MEMORY READER/WRITER (Wow) SD, MMC, MS, MS Select, Memory Stick Duo (with MS adapter), Memory Stick Pro, and Memory Stick Pro Duo (with MS Pro Adapter)
DC POWER INPUT JACK - INTERNAL BATTERY PACK -
Infrared Port - DC Power Input Jack - 56K Modem (Warning the built in modem does not support the voltage used in digital phone systems)
VGA & S-Video Ports
CD Controls - This can be used when you turned off the unit! Attach Headphones and listen to CDs while the unit is off. Controls in the front which include everything from volume to fast foward etc.. FANS do turn on when in this mode.
Battery Only lasts MAX 1 Hour 30 mins!!!
Initial testing.
Office XP Pro, Bryce 5, Poser 5, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, FrontPage. Lappy handle all these with flying colors.
I went a bit deeper and installed and tested which really ran just fine.
VMware using Linux Mandrake 10, Nice & Fast with 512 MB RAM. More RAM means more performance. Using this I was able to connect to the NIC card and was able to surf online just fine.
PearPC I used and installed MAC OSX 10.3 and it too ran fine and very stable. Speed is so-so.
Gaming
I installed Command & Conquer Generals played for hours and WOW amazing.
Next I tried and Installed DOOM3
Results = NOT GOOD.
Game installed and ran fine but after 2 levels of playing in medium mode with 1024 by 768 the system Locked UP during level 2 load up. I re ran it many times and I ran a temp gauge ASUS PROBE program and it shows clearly the system was at 48 C and after just 1 level going into level 2 of playing it went up to 80C. HOly JEBUS it shot up 30 gawd damn degrees. No wonder it crashed.
I ran gamegain to add performance still crashed.
Next I am going to run the Doom3 ATI optimizer code which tells DOOM 3 to run more optimized for ATI Radeons rather than NVIDIA Cards. I found the technique posted from a developer on a forum.
I think this will just optimize the game for graphics not for over heating.
So I will try and install ASUS BOOST which overclocks and declocks the lappy. I will attempt to DECLOCK it and run it from 2.8 to maybe a 2.0 to see if I can stabilize temperatures.
One more point the manual also verifies this. This lappy can be overclocked, and has a special rocket mode built in for just that which overclocks the CPU if enabled. Hrmm....
Power 4 Gear Modes with a touch of a button on this lappy
Maximum Power Savings (Little Man running ICON)
Medium Performance (Scooter ICON)
High Performance (CAR ICON)
Maximum Performance (Airplane ICON)
Overclocking Performance (Rocket Ship ICON)
the last two only works with the AC adapter plugged in. The rest is for battery only modes.
All this is controlled by a power gear key on the top left of the lappy.
Touch pad review of this is very accurate and fast. I like the double clicking touching feature as I am a n00bie to touch pads. Also has a Touchpad lock. Has a left click button and right click button and in the middle a scroll up and down buttons.
Dragon Naturally Preferred Version 7 Review on this lappy.
Installed and ran it and it ran really nice with my saved and programed training file that i created on my desktop.
Using a nice headset I can control the entire OS via voice. works fine with AIM and other messenger services. I don't have to type anything complete control.
Including using Internet Explorer you can surf the web and check your mail online with your own voice.
Firewall I am using is ZoneAlarm 4.5. AOL informed me that ZoneAlarm 5 conflicts with their AOL 9 and 9 SE Optimized versions. So I had to down grade. I ran into other problems using Zone Alarm 5 with my WebCam XP software too. So screw version 5.
I am expecting to be delivered D-Link Wireless router and pcmcia card to use with this lappy and I will review the performace. both 802.11 G 108 Mbps. with built in firewall packet sniffing tech so they claim.
DVD Review. I watched 10 movies from 2010 to Event Horizon, very very NICE with AC Adapter.
With BATTERY ONLY watching a movie will start to freeze and stumble when the battery is getting LOW.
I ran 3DMarkSE01 test score results were 9217. I know a bit dissapointing but I am hoping I can raise the score a bit. My desktop which is comparable ranked 11,000 plus but its using a prescott CPU not a northwood like my lappy. Unsure if that makes a whopping difference.
Windows XP Pro Corp (DevilsOwn)
Service Pack 1 not 2 because of the bugs related to version 2 and software incompatibility listed by MicroSoft.
Direct X9 C
Latest Video Drivers from ASUS.
Upgraded Bios too.. BIOS can be upgraded within windows using ASUS winflash which downloads and installs a new flash during reboot. A monkey can flash the bios with this.
ASUS Boost the over clocking and declocking utility only works for desktops so my plan to declock FAILED....
I have to look for another way to stabilize DOOM 3
Anyhow. I bought a barebones Notebook ASUS L5800GA.
I bought the cpu, ram, and hd separately.
W00t!
Here is a weblink that shows the photos of my laptop!
http://www.darksideinternet.com/gall...023/index.html
Specifications:
ASUS 865PE board is integrated into this laptop.
CPU - Desktop CPU 2.8 GHz 800 MHz FSB 512 Cache.
Important Note: Prescott CPUs will not work in this laptop!!!
RAM - Laptop Memory 512 MBs 2700 PC Corsair
Important Note: I tried 512 MBs 3200 PC 400 MHz RAM did not work!!!
HARD DRIVE - Hitachi 60 Gig 7200 RPMs (yes I typed it right 7200 RPM) with 8 Meg Cache. This is a laptop hard drive not a desktop!!!
VIDEO CARD - ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro 128 DDR (Wow!)
Important Note: Called ASUS and a technician informed me that the video card is upgradeable but they highly suggest they upgrade it themselves. Its upgradeable to a 9700 Pro 128 DDR. Wow! Asus rocks..
DISPLAY - 15 Inch TFT (Some models come with ACE View, mine did not) I highly rate the quality of the LCD.
AUDIO - ASUS has integrated an AC’97 CODEC from Realtek.
NIC CARD - 1000/100/10 RJ-45 Networking is taken care of by a Gigabit Ethernet network controller from 3Com.
COOLING - Uggh. It gets MAD HOT. This will heat up your n#t s#ack a bit.
FLOOPY DRIVE - CDRW/DVD ROM included.
FOUR USB Ports 1.1 / 2 - PRINTER SERIAL - COM 1 & COM 2 PORTS INCLUDED.
FIREWIRE PORT. 2 PCMCIA SLOTS - MIC, HEADPHONE, AUDIO IN JACK, SPDIF.
FLASH CARD MEMORY READER/WRITER (Wow) SD, MMC, MS, MS Select, Memory Stick Duo (with MS adapter), Memory Stick Pro, and Memory Stick Pro Duo (with MS Pro Adapter)
DC POWER INPUT JACK - INTERNAL BATTERY PACK -
Infrared Port - DC Power Input Jack - 56K Modem (Warning the built in modem does not support the voltage used in digital phone systems)
VGA & S-Video Ports
CD Controls - This can be used when you turned off the unit! Attach Headphones and listen to CDs while the unit is off. Controls in the front which include everything from volume to fast foward etc.. FANS do turn on when in this mode.
Battery Only lasts MAX 1 Hour 30 mins!!!
Initial testing.
Office XP Pro, Bryce 5, Poser 5, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, FrontPage. Lappy handle all these with flying colors.
I went a bit deeper and installed and tested which really ran just fine.
VMware using Linux Mandrake 10, Nice & Fast with 512 MB RAM. More RAM means more performance. Using this I was able to connect to the NIC card and was able to surf online just fine.
PearPC I used and installed MAC OSX 10.3 and it too ran fine and very stable. Speed is so-so.
Gaming
I installed Command & Conquer Generals played for hours and WOW amazing.
Next I tried and Installed DOOM3
Results = NOT GOOD.
Game installed and ran fine but after 2 levels of playing in medium mode with 1024 by 768 the system Locked UP during level 2 load up. I re ran it many times and I ran a temp gauge ASUS PROBE program and it shows clearly the system was at 48 C and after just 1 level going into level 2 of playing it went up to 80C. HOly JEBUS it shot up 30 gawd damn degrees. No wonder it crashed.
I ran gamegain to add performance still crashed.
Next I am going to run the Doom3 ATI optimizer code which tells DOOM 3 to run more optimized for ATI Radeons rather than NVIDIA Cards. I found the technique posted from a developer on a forum.
I think this will just optimize the game for graphics not for over heating.
So I will try and install ASUS BOOST which overclocks and declocks the lappy. I will attempt to DECLOCK it and run it from 2.8 to maybe a 2.0 to see if I can stabilize temperatures.
One more point the manual also verifies this. This lappy can be overclocked, and has a special rocket mode built in for just that which overclocks the CPU if enabled. Hrmm....
Power 4 Gear Modes with a touch of a button on this lappy
Maximum Power Savings (Little Man running ICON)
Medium Performance (Scooter ICON)
High Performance (CAR ICON)
Maximum Performance (Airplane ICON)
Overclocking Performance (Rocket Ship ICON)
the last two only works with the AC adapter plugged in. The rest is for battery only modes.
All this is controlled by a power gear key on the top left of the lappy.
Touch pad review of this is very accurate and fast. I like the double clicking touching feature as I am a n00bie to touch pads. Also has a Touchpad lock. Has a left click button and right click button and in the middle a scroll up and down buttons.
Dragon Naturally Preferred Version 7 Review on this lappy.
Installed and ran it and it ran really nice with my saved and programed training file that i created on my desktop.
Using a nice headset I can control the entire OS via voice. works fine with AIM and other messenger services. I don't have to type anything complete control.
Including using Internet Explorer you can surf the web and check your mail online with your own voice.
Firewall I am using is ZoneAlarm 4.5. AOL informed me that ZoneAlarm 5 conflicts with their AOL 9 and 9 SE Optimized versions. So I had to down grade. I ran into other problems using Zone Alarm 5 with my WebCam XP software too. So screw version 5.
I am expecting to be delivered D-Link Wireless router and pcmcia card to use with this lappy and I will review the performace. both 802.11 G 108 Mbps. with built in firewall packet sniffing tech so they claim.
DVD Review. I watched 10 movies from 2010 to Event Horizon, very very NICE with AC Adapter.
With BATTERY ONLY watching a movie will start to freeze and stumble when the battery is getting LOW.
I ran 3DMarkSE01 test score results were 9217. I know a bit dissapointing but I am hoping I can raise the score a bit. My desktop which is comparable ranked 11,000 plus but its using a prescott CPU not a northwood like my lappy. Unsure if that makes a whopping difference.
Windows XP Pro Corp (DevilsOwn)
Service Pack 1 not 2 because of the bugs related to version 2 and software incompatibility listed by MicroSoft.
Direct X9 C
Latest Video Drivers from ASUS.
Upgraded Bios too.. BIOS can be upgraded within windows using ASUS winflash which downloads and installs a new flash during reboot. A monkey can flash the bios with this.
ASUS Boost the over clocking and declocking utility only works for desktops so my plan to declock FAILED....
I have to look for another way to stabilize DOOM 3
