Drivers used were the 82.10 off of laptop2go's website. Cpu both at 2.4ghz. 7800GTX at same clocks 445/1.18. Notice how much closer they get the newer the tests are i.e. 05 and 06. I still think the cpu scores for the laptop are under where they should be but maybe after a clean install of XP that will help. Anyway here are the results.

3DMark Scores

Laptop Desktop

01 - 26546 28880

03 - 16527 17270

05 - 7622 8000

06 - 4213 4358

As you can see a clear win by the desktop but I say that the laptop put up a great fight. I'll post the orb links to the laptop in a minute. Any other benchmarks you would like me to run a comparison on please post them here, and make them the free versions so I can download them if I don't have them.

01 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8872235

03 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4566548

05 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1729824 run at 461/1.20 almost 8000

06 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=42716 @ 461/1.22, 4331 a little better than my first test

Just ran Aquamark with the 7800's at 461/1.20.

Laptop Dektop
GFX 15669 16575
CPU 9320 10821
Total 85120 93872

Updated 3DMark06 score 4596. Cheack out this thread that Yang put up, and add some scores. I don't see updating this list of scores anymore with that thread having been started.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=129731

very nice, we have almost the same specs , but i'm going to have a fx55, hopefully it will put up similar numbers

nice post indeed

Congrats on your order, seen you might order one last night. I would think it should put up some very nice numbers.

yeah I would have to say being in the phase game a 2nd time, sucks as bad as the 1st time =P

Ha-ha, at least you know what your looking at though. I was only a couple days behind the estimated date. I can say I am happy at how the phases went (I know some are not so happy too). Good luck.

I just overclocked the GTX 7800 which bumped me up to 7523 on the 3dMark05 test. Cool little registry setting that unlocks the hidden overclocking feature. I ran it at 460MHz/1.21Ghz which is what came up after detecting optimal freqs. Had the internal wireless going, so I don't know how much, if any, that impacted the results.

Are there any long term drawbacks running with it permanently overclocked?

As long as you don't push it too hard, there won't be any drawbacks. You should however run some further tests with either a game or burn-in program after you overclock your card; as you won't see any artifacts if you're just in the normal Windows environment.

Nice overclock there, and nice score. I'm shooting for 8000 and will get there (at 7938 right now). I don't run mine overclocked except during benchmarks. In actual games it will only be 2-5 fps better while overclocked and these cards at stock are doing just fine with games. I had mine at the same settings all night last night and never noticed any heat increase so as long as you have no artifacts or corruption it might be ok, but like I said you really don't need to in most games yet.

What else are you doing to get your score up near 8K? Are you really reformatting/rebuilding with XP?

run msconfig and disable all back ground processes, also put everything to performance, make sure you have all spyware/virus scans off etc.

I can't wait for this rig, it's going to perform on par if not better than my old alienware desktop...

also a clean install would help as well