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Z70V and Doom 3 ... Need someone's opinion/testimony

post #1 of 16
6/23/05 at 8:08pm
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Hey I'm wondering if someone could tell me how the following system would run doom3 compared to my old Sager 5680 (1 gig ram, p4 3ghz, 128mb Radeon 9600):

Z70V
1.86 ghz 533mhz fsb
1 gig 1stick RAM


I love this computer but want to play doom 3 on it, any chance of it? Can anyone who's run doom 3 on this laptop please comment, i really need the advice, i'm awfully torn ... 64mb ... ew..
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post #2 of 16
6/23/05 at 8:45pm
it does have hypermemory...
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post #3 of 16
6/23/05 at 9:42pm
Just downloaded the Doom3 Demo, it played alright. The auto configuration selected "Low Settings" which looked ok. I moved it to Medium Settings later and it played well- had a couple stutters here and there, but it was still good to play. Downloading the Half Life 2 demo now.
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post #4 of 16
6/23/05 at 11:15pm
Hey, it's weird, but my High settings play and look a lot better. Weird, dont ask me...
With Ultra settings, the graphics are amazing, but the gameplay is a little choppy.
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post #5 of 16
7/2/05 at 11:35am
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Now that we can view the refresh's stats on istnc.com can anyone give a semi-educated opinion as to how the refresh with its X700 will be able to play Doom 3? Any chance it will be better than my old Sager 5680 (P4 3ghz, 128mb Radeon 9600 Pro, 1 gig ram, 800mhz fsb, 5400 rpm drive)? These are the stats of the refresh I'm thinking of getting:

1.86ghz Pent-m
1 gig (1 stick) ram
60gb/80mb cache/7200 rpm drive
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post #6 of 16
7/2/05 at 2:15pm
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzQ2

Here's a review of the Acer TravelMate 8100 with Mobility Radeon X700. It plays doom 3 very nicely. The z70v refresh should perfrom just as well.
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post #7 of 16
7/2/05 at 2:32pm
for me it recommends high settings -AA on HL2. And it runs well.

that's with X600.
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post #8 of 16
7/2/05 at 9:21pm
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I'm so excited about trying out HL2 once I finally buy the system. My desktop probably couldn't push 1fps in that game. It sometimes slows down a bit on War Craft III ;ol

Anyways, thanks for the opinions, Blaker ... when you say it runs well, can you notice it catching, or are the fps fast enough to look smooth and glitch free?
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post #9 of 16
7/7/05 at 1:32am
I've got Half Life 2 on the current Z70V. Running on Medium settings- it's giving me 60-70 fps.
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post #10 of 16
7/7/05 at 6:19pm
the benchmarks have shown that ati cards perform very well in half life 2 where as nvidia cards perform much better in doom 3.

check out tomshardware.com and look at the VGA charts
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post #11 of 16
7/9/05 at 7:48pm
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Quote:
We found 1280x768 with 2XAA and 8XAF to be the highest playable settings on this notebook with the Mobility Radeon X700. This setting gave us very good image quality in the game and playable performance throughout Half Life 2. In Half Life 2 it is beneficial to the image quality if you can enable Anti-Aliasing, especially at lower resolutions. Widescreen gaming in Half Life 2 is quite fun and engaging, there is more horizontal world space visible compared to non-widescreen.


Image Quality:

At 1280x768 with 2XAA and 8XAF the game looks absolutely beautiful on the Mobility Radeon X700. Anti-Aliasing really clears up the jaggies in this game, and the Anti-Aliasing quality of the Mobility Radeon X700 at 2XAA is un-matched.

I got this off of that Acer review linked up above by Muhaha. Sounds really promising. I am so anxious to play this game, when the hell are the Z70V's coming!!!! I'm gonna order it from newegg, its only like $32.50 there plus like $2.99 for shipping. Looks like it also comes with CS:S .. very cool, I've never played, excited to try it out.

So I read somewhere or other that the Z70V refresh's will ship into the country on the 27th of July and then there will be a delay for them to go through customs and be distributed to the resellers and then customized, so we're probably looking at like the first or second week in August for Z70V refresh ships?
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post #12 of 16
7/10/05 at 1:46pm
Z70V's for only $32.50?!
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post #13 of 16
7/10/05 at 1:49pm
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yea its a pretty fair deal ;o)
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post #14 of 16
7/10/05 at 7:22pm
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Hey sorry to keep reviving this thread, but i have a few more questions regarding the Z70V Refresh and HL2. After reading the aforementioned review i feel a lot more confident about buying the system with its X700 video card ...

in that review they talk a lot about the card being good for anti-aliasing and anti-antropic filtering ... could anyone please explain to me what these things are?

I really wish I could get a better idea of how it will play HL2 ... I've never played the game before and would be horrendously dissapointed if it runs poorly on the Z70V refresh I hope to be ordering quite soon.
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post #15 of 16
7/10/05 at 10:45pm
Anti-aliasing is used to smooth out the edges.
Anisotropic filtering is just another technique used to make the image look better. Particularly things that are far away.
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post #16 of 16
7/11/05 at 2:12am

acer vs the asus


Now those scores don't really show what res its at... but here is what i found about the Acer
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Originally Posted by NotebookReview.com
3DMark 2005 v1.2.0

This being the latest version of 3DMark, the demos looked very demanding with lots of cool lighting effects, textures, etc. The frame rates for the 3 demo games stayed around 10 or lower FPS at 1024x768 and were significantly worse at higher resolutions.

1024x768
AA 2x
1972

1280x1024
AA 2x
1439

1680x1050
AA 2x
1094
I think I can safely say it performs better then the Acer travel mate... and MUCH better then that sager that someone listed
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