Eee PC 1215n Performance

hows the performance compared to like useing 64-bit

 

Hey, thanks for the info Sonicdude, decided to get 4gb for my 1215n. I used the program and the extra boot menu but it doesn't seem all of the 4gb is useable;

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Is that correct?

*EDIT* Never mind, updated to latest BIOS and now its showing the full 4gb, thanks again!

 

Following days I'me receiving my 1215N....can you confirm that you are working your 8gb 1215 with this 4GB Asus Eee PC 1215N-PU17 Netbook DDR3 Ram Memory | eBay
Is it the super-talent one?
Is it working dual channel?
overclocked to 2.3ghz and nvidia tools?
I think you've proposed this some threads ago!
Please PM me if you are able with your email also 'cause I've got some more questions concerning SETFsb you use!
Thanks!

 

Thanks a lot for this useful info...I'll try it!!
Can you please tell me what brand/speed ram are you using?
It's 2x2gb dimms?

Thanks!

 

I'm using 2x2gb of kingston 1333mhz RAM. I have also tried samsung and hynix RAM in this machine and they have all yeilded similar results so im not convinced brand is a big factor. I tried 8gb (2x4gb) of crucial RAM not long ago and that worked fine also, though i reverted back to 4gb as it was purely a test and i have no need for that much RAM on this machine.

Hope that helps.

 

You are probably right concerning quantity
I may need some help on the setfsb setup...I'll let you know as soon as I try it, especially this with the step!!
Thanks a lot for your quick response!!

 

If I wanted to install windows XP on my second partition, which AHCI driver should I integrate in XP so as to recognize the HDD in the setup?
I don't want to modify the BIOS to IDE mode because I want to dual-boot easily win7 with just a restart!!
It is ich7 or ich8 or ich9 or what?
I don't want to have performance in WinXP, just wlan and lan, no special graphics needed so I'll install I think only the intel vga driver, right?

Thanks!

 

You're gonna need the nm10 AHCI driver for the 1215n i believe and yeah just the intel gma driver. WinXP doesnt officially support optimus technology anyway so using the nvidia chip isnt an option with the native monitor.

 

Can I take nm10 ahci driver from the win7 ahci/sata driver and integrate it in XP?
I've tried to find it bare as the ich** series but....no luck~

EDIT: Found it
Thankssss!

 

Hi!
There is a strange issue, even via SHE with modded bios or SETFSB with oem bios or any combination, as soon as I overclock even at 1900mhz, my usb3 ports stop functioning!?!?!
They don't "come back" unless I shut down (not even restart)!!
What can I try more? Everything else works correctly, every time I overclock I have my lan disabled!!

Thanks!

 

I've seen in the thread that lots were having the same issue!!! Did you solve it or not?
You left it this way?

 

Hi sorry about the late reply. I believe that the reason the usb3.0 ports malfunction when overclocking in the region of 1.9-2ghz is the same reason the LAN port goes haywire (and therefore needs to be disabled). My model does not have usb3.0 so i cant really test for a solution myself. I too have read many threads on this issue and no one thus far to my knowledge has found a solution other than to live with it. They were investigating it on eeeuserforum a while back but the site has gone down so its not an accessible resource at this time. Sorry i cant be of more help.

 

So with your two USB 2,0 ports on your right side there is no problem when overclocking even to 2.2Ghz?

If this is the case, then I can search for a right side module (it's only wired to the mainboard) with usb 2.0 ports and I'm gonna b fine...

 

Yeah i've had it up to 2.35ghz and everything works fine with the LAN disabled.

 

Found a workaround for this...if I disable the usb 3.0 host controller before overclocking in device manager and then it just stays disabled no matter what! Now when I want to re-enable i just have to set the clock back to 1.8 and enable it...it works fine!
Just for info of other members facing same issue!
No need to restart!

 

Just tried mass effect 3 on this thing to see how laggy it would be and i was presently surprised. The game runs @ a pretty consistent (and relatively smooth) 25-40fps when set to 800x600 resolution (antialiasing on and dynamic shadows on). The game seems to be bottlenecked by the cpu on this device as switching antialiasing on/off makes no difference to fps. Resolution however does have an impact and fps plummets when set any higher than 1024x768 (which is borderline playable).

I was using my maximum overclocks during this test therefore peoples results will vary but sufficed to say mass effect 3 is very playable on this machine if you dont mind a slight blurring due to the lowered resolution.

 

which are the best drivers for the nvidia card? (or the ones less laggy?)

Thanks

 

It's got to the stage where i just go for the most recent as i havent noticed any major changes in behaviour or problems for a while now. Performance is pretty much as good as it's going to get imo.

In other news - today i upgraded the standard 250gb hdd in my 1215n to a Crucial M4 128gb ssd. I used Acronis' migration software to clone the drive onto the ssd and simply plugged in the new drive. Performance is noticably snappier all around. Startup is faster, web pages and applications in general are more responsive and the whole experience of using this netbook is improved significantly. It's an expensive upgrade but i was getting sick of the lagginess and hanging of the standard seagate drive so in my opinion it was worth it - so far so good.

 

I came just to say that "Mount and blade: Warband" works at full speed with all settings high, at 1920x1080 resolution (on HD TV). You only have to play with DirectX 7

 

I'm thinking about doing the same when my adsense payment gets to my account (and putting my actual hd in a usb3.0 case).
I've also updated my nvidia drivers to 301.24 and civ4 feels less laggy but, sometimes makes the game (civ4) stop working.

that's true. it works well for me too. (it lags a bit in those really big battles)

I've played the first episode of Walking Dead and it was ok (low graphics).

 

Hey Guys and Girls,

I know this thread is a little old, but I recently formatted a friends 1215n and I was wondering what nvidia drivers work the best?

I have read mixed results, where some people only say to use the Asus ones however others say the latest Nvidia are actually fine.

Any suggestions?

I noticed that using the asus one's, the nvidia GPU did not kick in when watching high quality youtube vids and thus they were jolty...

EDIT:: I have tried the Asus latest and Nvidia latest and they both playback 1080 youtube clips jolty So if I keep using the latest nvidia, does this mean optimus is not working and it is not switching between the IGP and ION?

EDIT x 2:: All good I have managed to get it working well. Thanks anyway.

 

After playing The Secret World with CPU@2120MHz I have come to the conclusion, that OC'ing the CPU has almost no effect on the game. The desktop reacts more snappier, true, but the game reacts better the higher the GPU is OC'ed. The only problem is, after the GPU crashes once, which happens a lot lately which wasn't before like this, I have to restart the whole pc. Isn't there another way instead of always rebooting the pc? :-(

EDIT: After posting this message, the graphic driver reseted AGAIN... :-(((

 

Your gpu overclock must be a little too high to be totally stable. Back it down a bit and the driver wont crash. Also some games rely more on the gpu that the cpu and vice versa so gains of overclocking will vary depending on the game.


Unrelated Sidenote: My 1215n died last week, the screen started flickering and there was a clicking sound shortly after which it turned off and there was a burning smell, so basically the motherboard is toast. Sad to see it go but it was battered after all the stuff i've put it through over the past 2 years so i'd say it had a good run. Replacing it with the Asus Lamborghini vx6s which is marginally more powerful and a lot more interesting looking.

 

im having trouble over clocking my netbook with 8gb ram it keeps crashing even in increments. my ram is Amazon.com: G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Laptop Memory Model F3-10600CL9D-8GBSQ: Computers & Accessories
and setfsb shows 405 instead of the usual 407 and 1800.1 is the speed i get when i getFSB instead of i think 1804

 

Eh, sorry to necro this thread. Brother got back from college for a week. He told me that his Netflix and 1080p h264 .mkv videos are playing choppy on the laptop's screen.

I took a look, and noticed that Youtube stutters on 1080p, and any media player to play 1080p h264 (VLC and MPC) do not work either. According to the nVidia indicator icon the ION GPU is not kicking in when running the above videos. I made sure to set the browsers and media players to use ION in settings, but it looks like ION isn't activating at all.

Videos run completely smooth when piping the video to a 1080p TV via HDMI.

I remember a little while back that someone said that ION will not work when using the laptop screen only. Just want to confirm that.

Drivers are 306.23 on Windows 7 HP 32-bit.

 

I know bumping is frowned upon, but I'd really like to fix my brother's laptop, or, failing that, give him some options.

 

Same problem here. Windows 8 RTM 64bits, 8Gb ram, ssd hd.
(with windows 7 64bits it's the same problem)

Everytime I play some video (avi, mkv,...) or flash app, the laptop starts to lag until it freezes.

CPU usage goes up to 97%

I thinks it is some kind of driver problem.

 

Hi,
I'd like a copy of the modded BIOS for the 1215n described in this thread.
All links are currently dead.

Thanks a bunch

 

Does anyone has access to the drivers in the asus website?

 

Hi everyone,

I’ve got a problem. It was the original Ram (2x1gb) her:
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/8156551gborigine.jpg
And I buy 2x2gb same brand Hynix, same frequency here and the 1215n doesn’t boot :
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/4218562gbupgrade.jpg
What can I do? send back ram and do what? than you.

 

Sorry, back again. I tried other new Kingston KVR1333D3S8S9/2G (2x2gb) and nothing too, no boot, black screen
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/774366kingston2x2gb.jpg

Why? :/