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Dr.Grass on 02 June 2011
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:

Good specs but i'm sorry you  opted for an HP :-/

What's the issue with HP laptops? (i'm asking honestly, since I haven't heard anything bad from them here in Portugal)


In every country there are fabled 'bad laptop brands'. Where I live you can't say Acer without people feeling sorry for you. A little ridiculous really. The worst is the ''This brand is the best'' speech that people throw at you. I've had Toshiba, Acer and Fujitsu Siemens laptops and they were all fine.



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lestatdark on 02 June 2011
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:

The laptop has arrived and I'm finally testing it. I love the keyboard setup (pop-up keys which allows for better cleaning) and I haven't had any issues with the touchpad so far. 

Also I made a mistake about the specifications. It isn't a i7-2310QM, it's a i7-2630QM which rates at 7.9 in the windows experience index. Lowest experience index is the HDD at 6.4

Going to install a couple of games and will later give an impression about the graphical performance.

Whats the graphics card rate on the windows experience index?

7.1

That's a big improvement from my previous Geforce GT 9650M, which was a 5.9



Current PC Build

CPU - i7 8700K 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz turbo) 6 cores OC'd to 5.2 GHz with Watercooling (Hydro Series H110i) | MB - Gigabyte Z370 HD3P ATX | Gigabyte GTX 1080ti Gaming OC BLACK 11G (1657 MHz Boost Core / 11010 MHz Memory) | RAM - Corsair DIMM 32GB DDR4, 2400 MHz | PSU - Corsair CX650M (80+ Bronze) 650W | Audio - Asus Essence STX II 7.1 | Monitor - Samsung U28E590D 4K UHD, Freesync, 1 ms, 60 Hz, 28"

yo_john117 on 02 June 2011
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:

The laptop has arrived and I'm finally testing it. I love the keyboard setup (pop-up keys which allows for better cleaning) and I haven't had any issues with the touchpad so far. 

Also I made a mistake about the specifications. It isn't a i7-2310QM, it's a i7-2630QM which rates at 7.9 in the windows experience index. Lowest experience index is the HDD at 6.4

Going to install a couple of games and will later give an impression about the graphical performance.

Whats the graphics card rate on the windows experience index?

7.1

That's a big improvement from my previous Geforce GT 9650M, which was a 5.9

Nice so your right around where I am for my laptop (7.0) Before this my other laptop had a 3.1 >_< I couldn't do anything with that!

You tried playing the Witcher 2 on it yet?



lestatdark on 02 June 2011
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:

The laptop has arrived and I'm finally testing it. I love the keyboard setup (pop-up keys which allows for better cleaning) and I haven't had any issues with the touchpad so far. 

Also I made a mistake about the specifications. It isn't a i7-2310QM, it's a i7-2630QM which rates at 7.9 in the windows experience index. Lowest experience index is the HDD at 6.4

Going to install a couple of games and will later give an impression about the graphical performance.

Whats the graphics card rate on the windows experience index?

7.1

That's a big improvement from my previous Geforce GT 9650M, which was a 5.9

Nice so your right around where I am for my laptop (7.0) Before this my other laptop had a 3.1 >_< I couldn't do anything with that!

You tried playing the Witcher 2 on it yet?

Haven't got it yet, I won't be able to afford new games for a while. Only tried Crysis, Dirt 2 and Dragon Age Origins on it. Crysis runs at 45 - 50 fps on average on high at 1366x786 resolution 2x AA, only dropping to 30 in very excessive foliage. Dirt 2 and DAO run at 60 fps constant with everything maxed.



Current PC Build

CPU - i7 8700K 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz turbo) 6 cores OC'd to 5.2 GHz with Watercooling (Hydro Series H110i) | MB - Gigabyte Z370 HD3P ATX | Gigabyte GTX 1080ti Gaming OC BLACK 11G (1657 MHz Boost Core / 11010 MHz Memory) | RAM - Corsair DIMM 32GB DDR4, 2400 MHz | PSU - Corsair CX650M (80+ Bronze) 650W | Audio - Asus Essence STX II 7.1 | Monitor - Samsung U28E590D 4K UHD, Freesync, 1 ms, 60 Hz, 28"

Baalzamon on 02 June 2011

That's a very good laptop.  My dad just got one with that processor and it's an extremely quick computer.

I'm impressed by the 7200 RPM hard drive versus a slower one.

6 gb of ram will be liked...do you mind my asking if it is 1066 mhz or 1333 mhz ram?

Graphics card is good

For those saying the resolution is bad...I know 1366x768 isn't the greatest of resolutions, but for a 15.4" screen, it is perfectly fine, and I have had absolutely no complaints about that resolution on my 16" laptop (it looks perfectly fine).  Matter of fact, if you do out the math, a 1366x768 resolution on a 15.4" screen will actually get you more pixels per inch than the 1920x1080 resolution I have on my 27" desktop screen (quite considerably more if I did my math correctly).  So while you will suffer a lot less pixels (which I believe means less deatail), you will have more pixels per inch, which should make the detail you do have crisper.



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yo_john117 on 02 June 2011
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:

The laptop has arrived and I'm finally testing it. I love the keyboard setup (pop-up keys which allows for better cleaning) and I haven't had any issues with the touchpad so far. 

Also I made a mistake about the specifications. It isn't a i7-2310QM, it's a i7-2630QM which rates at 7.9 in the windows experience index. Lowest experience index is the HDD at 6.4

Going to install a couple of games and will later give an impression about the graphical performance.

Whats the graphics card rate on the windows experience index?

7.1

That's a big improvement from my previous Geforce GT 9650M, which was a 5.9

Nice so your right around where I am for my laptop (7.0) Before this my other laptop had a 3.1 >_< I couldn't do anything with that!

You tried playing the Witcher 2 on it yet?

Haven't got it yet, I won't be able to afford new games for a while. Only tried Crysis, Dirt 2 and Dragon Age Origins on it. Crysis runs at 45 - 50 fps on average on high at 1366x786 resolution 2x AA, only dropping to 30 in very excessive foliage. Dirt 2 and DAO run at 60 fps constant with everything maxed.

Damn you can run Crysis 2 on high on that thing?!?  Man if I could share my copy of The Witcher 2 with you I would cause i'm interested to see how your computer could handle it. Mine can only play it on Medium settings with 22-28 FPS (but for some reason I can't really tell that the Frame rate is so low)



lestatdark on 02 June 2011
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:

The laptop has arrived and I'm finally testing it. I love the keyboard setup (pop-up keys which allows for better cleaning) and I haven't had any issues with the touchpad so far. 

Also I made a mistake about the specifications. It isn't a i7-2310QM, it's a i7-2630QM which rates at 7.9 in the windows experience index. Lowest experience index is the HDD at 6.4

Going to install a couple of games and will later give an impression about the graphical performance.

Whats the graphics card rate on the windows experience index?

7.1

That's a big improvement from my previous Geforce GT 9650M, which was a 5.9

Nice so your right around where I am for my laptop (7.0) Before this my other laptop had a 3.1 >_< I couldn't do anything with that!

You tried playing the Witcher 2 on it yet?

Haven't got it yet, I won't be able to afford new games for a while. Only tried Crysis, Dirt 2 and Dragon Age Origins on it. Crysis runs at 45 - 50 fps on average on high at 1366x786 resolution 2x AA, only dropping to 30 in very excessive foliage. Dirt 2 and DAO run at 60 fps constant with everything maxed.

Damn you can run Crysis 2 on high on that thing?!?  Man if I could share my copy of The Witcher 2 with you I would cause i'm interested to see how your computer could handle it. Mine can only play it on Medium settings with 22-28 FPS (but for some reason I can't really tell that the Frame rate is so low)

I think it's mostly due to the CPU rather than the GPU. The i7-2630QM is supposedly the 15th fastest available CPU in the market nowadays. Each core is 2.00 GHz but can turboboost to 2.9 GHz. 

The 6770M isn't too shabby as well. Since this is the 192 bits GDDR5 version, it's performance is on par with the GT 555M and HD 6870M GDDR3.

Also, what are your PC specifications? 



Current PC Build

CPU - i7 8700K 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz turbo) 6 cores OC'd to 5.2 GHz with Watercooling (Hydro Series H110i) | MB - Gigabyte Z370 HD3P ATX | Gigabyte GTX 1080ti Gaming OC BLACK 11G (1657 MHz Boost Core / 11010 MHz Memory) | RAM - Corsair DIMM 32GB DDR4, 2400 MHz | PSU - Corsair CX650M (80+ Bronze) 650W | Audio - Asus Essence STX II 7.1 | Monitor - Samsung U28E590D 4K UHD, Freesync, 1 ms, 60 Hz, 28"

yo_john117 on 02 June 2011
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:

Nice so your right around where I am for my laptop (7.0) Before this my other laptop had a 3.1 >_< I couldn't do anything with that!

You tried playing the Witcher 2 on it yet?

Haven't got it yet, I won't be able to afford new games for a while. Only tried Crysis, Dirt 2 and Dragon Age Origins on it. Crysis runs at 45 - 50 fps on average on high at 1366x786 resolution 2x AA, only dropping to 30 in very excessive foliage. Dirt 2 and DAO run at 60 fps constant with everything maxed.

Damn you can run Crysis 2 on high on that thing?!?  Man if I could share my copy of The Witcher 2 with you I would cause i'm interested to see how your computer could handle it. Mine can only play it on Medium settings with 22-28 FPS (but for some reason I can't really tell that the Frame rate is so low)

I think it's mostly due to the CPU rather than the GPU. The i7-2630QM is supposedly the 15th fastest available CPU in the market nowadays. Each core is 2.00 GHz but can turboboost to 2.9 GHz. 

The 6770M isn't too shabby as well. Since this is the 192 bits GDDR5 version, it's performance is on par with the GT 555M and HD 6870M GDDR3.

Also, what are your PC specifications? 

My processor is the exact same as yours (I just noticed that) but my windows experience says its only a 7.4

I have 8GB DDR3 ram

a GeForce GTX 440M

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit 



lestatdark on 02 June 2011
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:

Nice so your right around where I am for my laptop (7.0) Before this my other laptop had a 3.1 >_< I couldn't do anything with that!

You tried playing the Witcher 2 on it yet?

Haven't got it yet, I won't be able to afford new games for a while. Only tried Crysis, Dirt 2 and Dragon Age Origins on it. Crysis runs at 45 - 50 fps on average on high at 1366x786 resolution 2x AA, only dropping to 30 in very excessive foliage. Dirt 2 and DAO run at 60 fps constant with everything maxed.

Damn you can run Crysis 2 on high on that thing?!?  Man if I could share my copy of The Witcher 2 with you I would cause i'm interested to see how your computer could handle it. Mine can only play it on Medium settings with 22-28 FPS (but for some reason I can't really tell that the Frame rate is so low)

I think it's mostly due to the CPU rather than the GPU. The i7-2630QM is supposedly the 15th fastest available CPU in the market nowadays. Each core is 2.00 GHz but can turboboost to 2.9 GHz. 

The 6770M isn't too shabby as well. Since this is the 192 bits GDDR5 version, it's performance is on par with the GT 555M and HD 6870M GDDR3.

Also, what are your PC specifications? 

My processor is the exact same as yours (I just noticed that) but my windows experience says its only a 7.4

I have 8GB DDR3 ram

a GeForce GTX 440M

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit 

Well, with those specs you should be running The Witcher 2 with much higher FPS. You sure it isn't a drivers related problem? 



Current PC Build

CPU - i7 8700K 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz turbo) 6 cores OC'd to 5.2 GHz with Watercooling (Hydro Series H110i) | MB - Gigabyte Z370 HD3P ATX | Gigabyte GTX 1080ti Gaming OC BLACK 11G (1657 MHz Boost Core / 11010 MHz Memory) | RAM - Corsair DIMM 32GB DDR4, 2400 MHz | PSU - Corsair CX650M (80+ Bronze) 650W | Audio - Asus Essence STX II 7.1 | Monitor - Samsung U28E590D 4K UHD, Freesync, 1 ms, 60 Hz, 28"

yo_john117 on 02 June 2011
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:
yo_john117 said:

Nice so your right around where I am for my laptop (7.0) Before this my other laptop had a 3.1 >_< I couldn't do anything with that!

You tried playing the Witcher 2 on it yet?

Haven't got it yet, I won't be able to afford new games for a while. Only tried Crysis, Dirt 2 and Dragon Age Origins on it. Crysis runs at 45 - 50 fps on average on high at 1366x786 resolution 2x AA, only dropping to 30 in very excessive foliage. Dirt 2 and DAO run at 60 fps constant with everything maxed.

Damn you can run Crysis 2 on high on that thing?!?  Man if I could share my copy of The Witcher 2 with you I would cause i'm interested to see how your computer could handle it. Mine can only play it on Medium settings with 22-28 FPS (but for some reason I can't really tell that the Frame rate is so low)

I think it's mostly due to the CPU rather than the GPU. The i7-2630QM is supposedly the 15th fastest available CPU in the market nowadays. Each core is 2.00 GHz but can turboboost to 2.9 GHz. 

The 6770M isn't too shabby as well. Since this is the 192 bits GDDR5 version, it's performance is on par with the GT 555M and HD 6870M GDDR3.

Also, what are your PC specifications? 

My processor is the exact same as yours (I just noticed that) but my windows experience says its only a 7.4

I have 8GB DDR3 ram

a GeForce GTX 440M

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit 

Well, with those specs you should be running The Witcher 2 with much higher FPS. You sure it isn't a drivers related problem? 

I'm a computer noob so i'm not sure what the problem is....I have all my videocard drivers up to date (I think at least) and Steam automatically updated the patch for the Witcher 2 as well so that can't be the problem.