5920G review?

hey guys any idea about the best drivers for the 8600gt in the acer ??
i dont like to use the default drivers for benching ..
i checked the laptopvideo2go and i saw like a million version !!
any advice will be appreciated and in a week i think i will give u all the benches u want just tell me which game !!

 

158.45 modded

 

Does that beat 162.XX without overclocking?

 

only 20 + - 3DMark06 Difference for me with stock speed

 

any workaround for the damn write caching problem ??!!
its driving me crazy already !!

 

What caching problem?

 

HDD write cache

 

so bigspin did ya find anything ??
its killing my acer's performance !! and ruining the experience for me ..
damn intel and their crap drivers if its intels fault ofcourse ..

 

NO.Intel still not fix it with their latest AHCI driver(Poor Intel Driver Team )

 

I really have no idea what the HDD write cache is for.
Please explain it in simpler words. Sorry....

 

Follow the link

 

ok... so the problem is that write cache cannot be enabled?

 

yes...little poor performance

 

Heh heh, the review is up on the front page. Nice work.

 

Thanks!

I guess I'll update my original post then.

 

Nice review although I have no problem opening the dvd writer tray with either of my memory sticks in the usb port.
Maybe I just have skinny usb keys

 

Also, I wouldnt say my keyboard is pearl white .. its more Amiga beige.

 

Amiga beige?

lol I just said pearl white because it's the first thing the comes into my head.

p.s. hmmm... I'm going to look up amiga beige on dictionary.com now

 

You obviously never had a Commodore Amiga

 

hye patrick nice review there but i hoped for a lil more benchmarks ..say C&C3 !
i hope that i will bench'em all in the upcoming week as im traveling tomorrow so if u have any game u want me to bench just say it ..
And Oh ! did u guys try the Acer arcade ??
u just turn off the laptop and press the Arcade button and the system boots in the Arcade mode !! i find this to be one of the coolest features of this notebook ..i love it !

 

Wow, didn't know that LordLucifer, and I've been using this notebook for 2 months now... I'll try it out.

 

Thanks... Unfortunately I do not have any of those game so I don't think I can
complete the benchmarks.

Thanks for the arcade tip... Didn't know that either.

 

welcome any time !!
and i advice u guys to flash the bios to the latest version i think that it made my notebook boot faster plus it has the option to disable the sata AHCI in case u want to install winXP without needing an external floppy drive or creating an XP cd with sata drivers ..
i really like this notebook !!

 

Like everybody who use it fev days

 

same here love my notebook just i am not satisfied with my GPU, i am hungry in more performance. My country acer supports are great settle my extended warranty issue in less than 2 hours.

 

yeh this laptop just grows and grows on you .....i love it!!!

 

you should have waited then,nvidia have just released the 8700gt for notebooks,its supposed to be pretty close to desktop performance!

 

Guys i got u C&C3 (version 1.0) numbers on the default driver on my acer ..
Using fraps on all ultra high settings on default rez without AA or AF

Min : 19
Max : 25
Avg : 21.629

and i didnt have any probs playing through the game at all and for me it was silky smooth !!

 

hey guys any chance that any of ya did a recovery from the d2d option while pressing the Alt+F10 ??
the damn thing is asking me for a password to start the recover process and there is a hint that says (apple) !!
ive tried searching for it in the guide and found nothing ..
so plz guys if any of u knows what is it plz tell !!!!!
I was going to bench GRAW2 and Supreme Commander yesterday and the damn vista died on me so im writing this from my PC

 

What's your password for eRecovery? I'm pretty sure that I was asked to input one when I first used the software. The password is now used for everything from backup to restore.
Maybe you can ask Acer about what's going on?
Good luck!

 

i think i did that !!
thank u for reminding me that its the same pass i set before of windows ..
just one thing if u noticed that on ur notebook ..my harddisk is very hot !!
its like 55 c degrees all the damn time and i checked the seagate to see the max temp for it and it says 54 ...so i think my notebook is going downhill as i had a history of dead harddisks with all my notebooks ..

 

My hard disk only gets hot under heavy loads. However, I don't really check for the exact temperature, instead I just determine "the hotness" by feeling the left palm rest.

I would say that my HD is fine most of the time.

 

man a few moments ago the hard disk started to make loud and disturbing sounds and the whole system frooze and thanks god i wasnt using the battery so i just unpluged the ac and restarted in safe mode to check the damage and the damn event viewer didnt say anything about the disk !!
for godsake someone tell me what to do with this harddisk problems im getting as there isnt an acer service here ...
and i personally think that its the damn robson cache thats causing all that ..

Update : guys disabling the ReadyBoost & ReadyDrive on my acer notebook lowered the temp from 55 degrees at boot to 40 !!!
and the stability is much much better as i got nearly 100 errors in one day !!

 

Hopefully everything will work out for you eventually. Good luck!

Personally I'm having no problem and I'm using readyboost through an SD card.

 

How much performance difference do you feel with Readyboost? Is it worth going for an SD card?

 

i got question bout overclock

can someone please show me suitable setting to overclock my aspire 5920G (most stable setting)

i'm using Riva Tuner sometimes nTune from nvidia, what is the stable core and memory clock to overclock the GPU without overheating my gpu

please show me.. thanx

my cpu when idle is 48 - 52'C
my gpu idle = 61'C

aspire spec:
intel core 2 duo t7300 2.0ghz
256mb geforce 8600M GT turbocache
2gb ddr2
vista home premium

 

hey guys, i need help here bout overclock. help pls

no one respond till now

 

Yo...

I've been able to overclock using ntune to 590/470 and getting an average of 4500 3DMARK06 points (@ 1280 x 800). I'm using the Aspire Gemstone with nVidia 8600M GT. I think that should be just about good enough for Crytek's CRYSIS but I'm only getting my copy next week so I'll let you know how that turns out.

Hope the info helps...

 

hey thanx lot i'll try it then

let me know how it turns out