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post #101 of 135
4/7/05 at 5:45am
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Originally Posted by B Nietsnie
S0rry

Can't d0 anyth1ng...
B... u can use the "On-screen Keyboard" if its any better...

I think its under Accessories->Accessibility

Thats unless of course if your mouse doesn't work...
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post #102 of 135
4/7/05 at 8:23am
woo this works well thanks!
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post #103 of 135
4/7/05 at 11:09am
Hey ppl
Im from oz
We get jack as far as computers are concerned so I drool with envy at the USA specs that get posted.
One dealer of Z71 models in Australia is Digital Star: they are selling a "Z71VP" with the 128 mB 6200 card but only offer 1200 x 800 res. Can't seem to find a model with that - either Z71A or Z71V but ain't no Z71VP no where to be seen so must be their own barebones frankenstein version. I thought 120x800 was only on the A's.

Looks like a sleek machine but is that res going to piss me off with games?
Cheers
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post #104 of 135
4/7/05 at 11:38am
Thread Starter 
I have seen a simliar model called the Evesham C510 which is fundamentally a Z71V model. They are giving an option of a 1200X800 WXGA screen or an upgrade to 1680X1050 WXGA+. Though this machine comes with a 6600Go, have not seen the 6200 on this laptop yet.
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post #105 of 135
4/7/05 at 1:06pm
Olli
Can you please check the mah rating on your battery. Also I am wondering if the battery timings has anything to do with voltage. I doubt it but i dont know how it differs from uk to usa. I ve gone back and rechecked the battery. With low setting and low brightness we just cant get any more then 3 hours on it on continues 3dmark and movies. SO i dont know how you got 4.5 hours. Yes the official model is z71vp from the z7100 series. Can someone please post a link to any of the asus subsite where this model is advertised. I am looking for the flash intro but none to be found, The global site has flash for all of them. I will reward whoever finds it with the getting jiggy banana
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post #106 of 135
4/7/05 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by p2g
Olli
Can you please check the mah rating on your battery. Also I am wondering if the battery timings has anything to do with voltage. I doubt it but i dont know how it differs from uk to usa. I ve gone back and rechecked the battery. With low setting and low brightness we just cant get any more then 3 hours on it on continues 3dmark and movies. SO i dont know how you got 4.5 hours. Yes the official model is z71vp from the z7100 series. Can someone please post a link to any of the asus subsite where this model is advertised. I am looking for the flash intro but none to be found, The global site has flash for all of them. I will reward whoever finds it with the getting jiggy banana
Not sure how he got 4.5 but on casual usage last night w/o ALS I am able to get over 3 only...
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post #107 of 135
4/7/05 at 1:35pm
Here is an interesting finding I gotten so far.

The nVidia driver which comes with the notebook is version 71.13. In 3D Mark 2005, I could get around 1730ish (give or take)...

The latest driver on nVidia website 71.84 "DOES NOT" support the nVidia GO 6600!! which is a total bummer.

However, if you go to Guru3D.com and download the xtreme driver, which incorporate the 71.84 from nVidia and sort of mod a bit, you could pump 3D Mark 2005 to around 1800ish (that is w/o the memory and cpu over clocking!!!)

Just thought that was interesting. So far, I have yet to find another driver working with this laptop other than that one. What is interesting is the Toshiba Tecra series also uses the nVidia GO 6600, but their drivers won't detect the Asus version. I believe the Tecra uses the MXM version of the board, while Asus uses the non-MXM version of the board.
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post #108 of 135
4/7/05 at 2:38pm
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It was 4.30 mins, although I did have it on battery save mode and brightness was on 20%. Just done another test and got 3.45 hours on it.

If you keep sound low on 15% can this improve battery?
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post #109 of 135
4/7/05 at 3:21pm
looking back through the initial pages of the review itself, I found a question to ask: Remember back when you did that Doom 3 benchmark, and got a higher fps rate at higher res than at lower res? Was that because anti-aliasing was turned off? Missed that the first time, but looking back, it gave me pause.
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post #110 of 135
4/7/05 at 4:36pm
I can't believe that the new driver dosen't work with our GPU. I tried to update it with no luck. I was thinking of trying the driver from Guru3D, but am worried about using an unofficial driver. Will it adversely affect the GPU? And when Nvidia releases a new compatible drive will I be able to just delete the one from 3DGuru?
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post #111 of 135
4/7/05 at 4:44pm
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looking back through the initial pages of the review itself, I found a question to ask: Remember back when you did that Doom 3 benchmark, and got a higher fps rate at higher res than at lower res? Was that because anti-aliasing was turned off? Missed that the first time, but looking back, it gave me pause.
That's what I decided as well.
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post #112 of 135
4/7/05 at 5:38pm
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Yeah it was turned off as at the high resolution (1600X1200) there is no point to have it on as it looks great without it. Only at lower resolutions is anti-alaising needed. The same goes for HL2 and CS, I got 51fps in the CS graphics test on 1600X1200 looks amazing.
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post #113 of 135
4/7/05 at 5:42pm
51fps on Half Life 2? And 30fps is the standardly-accepted bare-minimum? Nice.

Is Half Life 2 a long game, or a short game as far as shooters are concerned? I like a game that really gets me involved, and makes me work a while in order to finish.
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post #114 of 135
4/7/05 at 5:45pm
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51fps on CS graphics test. And remember my GPU is back to underclocked 250/400. Have you not played it yet? Great game more than just a shooter than doom3, took me a while to finish it but only played it couple of hours a day.

Just done video stress on CS, overclocked to 300/700 1600x1200 everything on high aa off got 54fps
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post #115 of 135
4/7/05 at 6:01pm
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Originally Posted by olli3
Hey guys, just giving the wireless connection a go on the laptop, top draw performance. As-well in the review I stated that the fans don't tun off on the laptop, but now after a close look both the fan seems to be off most times on web surfing and general work. Only during battery save mode though.
what router do you use?
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post #116 of 135
4/7/05 at 6:04pm
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Linksys Wireless G broadband router. Seems to work all around the house at 54.0mbs. Says it can work up to 150feet away
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post #117 of 135
4/7/05 at 6:34pm
Info directly from Asus...below is in regards to the nVidia GO GeForce 6600

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The memory speed is DDR333/400 SODIMM.
The VGA core clock for Z71V is 250 Mhz.
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post #118 of 135
4/7/05 at 6:37pm
is that a good score?

olli3: no, I haven't played it yet. It looks wonderful, and I'm hoping it's not just a mindless run-and-gun shooter.
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post #119 of 135
4/7/05 at 7:31pm
HL2 mindless??? No way ellement, just wait till you get your grimy little mits on that gravity gun....oh my oh my. The best price I've found for the ce and standard version is at gogamer.com you should check that out.

I'm kind of sad at how it seems our GPU was so underclocked but I guess I should have guessed that thinking back about how in the world they were giving us those amazing battery life stats. Oh well, I bet there will be a safe solution to overclocking and I'm not going to let this ruin my expectations, this is still an excellent laptop
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post #120 of 135
4/7/05 at 9:02pm

Underclock the GPU?

Could someone who has their Z71V try underclocking the GPU as far as it will go without causing stability problems and then test performance in web browsing, video playback and common 2D tasks.

I have tried this on my desktop 6800 and it really helped reduce heat and fan noise when using my computer as a home theater PC. Hopefully we can stretch that battery life out a little more by doing this. After all what is a 6200 but a lower clocked 6600 with less pipes. Hmm that gives me another idea maybe we can temporarily lock some of the 6600 pipes in software to save even more power.
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