Okay guys, I'm really really considering buying this notebook, however, I've heard that Battlefield 2 is going to be a pretty demanding game. I wanted to know you guys' take on how you guys think it'll performed on a Z71V configured as so (keep in mind that this game's performance on the ASUS will probably decide whether or not I really want to purchase this laptop) :

Processor: Intel Pentium M processor 760 2MB Cache 2.0GHz 533FSB
Hard Drive PATA: Hitachi 60GB/8MB Cache 7200RPM
Memory: 1GB DDR2-4200 (64x8,1x1gb)
Video Adapter: PCI Express Nvidia 6600-128MB

Any ideas/suggestion/whatever guys? I'd really appreciate it mightily. You guys can also give your impressions of how the Battlefield 2 Demo worked, as well.

THANKS ALL!

i have a similarly configured machine and the demo runs fine. 1024x768 everything on high no AA runs very smoothly. i can't really tell how many fps it is but i'll guess ballpark 40-60. My machine is the same as yours except with 2 GB of DDR2

me too

Anyone else?

if you went with 2 sticks of 512 couldn't it run on dual channel and perform better for this game?

by maybe 2-3fps at most maybe, people dont understand that dual channel is mostly a gimmick on this chipset.

in sonoma, dual channel DDR2 yield at best 5% improvement vs single channel DDR2

I see. What about you guys, Gaming Techy and smilepak; have you guys tried out the Battlefield Demo, and if so, what are your impressions?
THANKS

I haven't play BF2 yet. But if you are going to I highly suggest video driver version 77.62. Anything older than 77.30 will give you performance hit and shadow problem.

I've heard BF2 is graphic hungry. Anything lower than ATI 9700 Pro will not run well at all.

the demo runs great on my z71v, i have 2x512 and 1.6ghz overclocked to 2.13ghz and the 6600 running at 309/730. the game settings are at medium, with the resolution set at it's highest, 1400xsomething.

BF2 is RAM HUNGRY, I feel thats the problem, cause most of us do about 80-100 FPS flying around then soon as we hit ground drops badddd, I really feel it was coded for ram not video memory thus the loading times and what not!

Man you must've done some serious O/C on your GPU.

I suppose you are using the 1.6 400FSB Dothan to get that 2.13 speed?

What have you done to the GPU? AC5?

This is not necessarly true you can see on the chart bellow that it does not make any real difference if you add more memory. 1 GB is enough

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-S...body_pagenum=5

yeah i just used the dip switch to overclock to 2.13, very nice feature, and no heat issues. as for the gpu, i didn't do anything with the hardware, i just increased the frequencies until i saw problems. the core didn't go far, but i was very impressed with how far i could push the memory.

Battlefield 2 demo ran fine on my computer (of course I kept getting killed, but we won't talk about that... )