HP 8710w GC124EA PURCHASED!!!

Core 2 Duo T7700
17,0" WUXGA+ WVA TFT LCD, (AntiGlare)
1920 x 1200
Intel® Core™ Duo T7700 CPU 2,40 GHz
L2 Cache: 4 MB, 800MHz FSB
HDD 120 GB, IDE S-ATA
7200 rpm
HP Mobile Data Protection System + Accelerometer
User removable SATA hard drives
DVD-RW dual layer
1 x 2048 MB DDR2 667 MHz
Max 4 GB DDR2
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M graphics controller 512 MB GDDR3 video memory
56K V.92 modem with digital line guard
Broadcom Gigabit (10/100/1000 NIC) PCI Express Ethernet Controller
Intel® Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g MOW2 mini-pci card
Bluetooth modul
Bluetooth Yes
Touchpad
High Definition Audio support w/24-bit DAC
Integrated 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro compatible audio
External volume control and mute buttons Speakers 2 x stereo speakers
6-in-1 flash media reader (XD, SD, MS, MS PRO, MS DUO, MMC)
I/O 6 x USB 2.0
1 x IEEE1394
1 x Audio out
1 x Mic In
1 x Modem RJ-11
1 x LAN RJ-45
1 x S-video TV-out
1 x HDMI
1 x Docking connector
1 x Travel battery connector
393 x 275 x 33 mm
3,40 kg
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business
8-cell lithium-ion battery
HP Fast Charge Technology
Up to 3.30h
Part # GC124EA

3d mark 06 results later today.

 

Smoking !! How much did u get it for ?

 

3146 US Dollars

 

Okey so this is my first 3d mark 06 run without any modifications to the default drivers or the graphics no overcloking nothing. right out of the box 3d mark 06 run with all the usual programs running on vista. dont have time for the whole test and driver update but will do it in 2h or so when i come back. P.S. any advice on where and what drivers to download would be greately appriciated.

 

A got advice-run 3DMark06 in "native resolution" which is 1280x1024 .

 

Yeah you are not getting a real evalution of your card if you run it at a lower res than what other people run 3DMark06.

Run it at the native res, and then you will see how your card performs compared to others.

 

Score with 1280/1024 is 4692. Is this good ?

 

So happy to find someone with this machine. I myself have nw9440 and am very curious to find out the difference in grafik benchmarks. Since nw9440 has a 1500M (256 bus) I wonder how it compares to 1600M (128 bus). I only have 3dmark05 and run some tests on my machine. This are the results:

1024x768 = 7242
1280x1024 = 6216
1600x1200 = 5339

Can you run the same tests to compare. I imagine 8710w will be better in lower res and worse in higher res due to 128 bus.

 

will do
downloading 05 althou u have to realise that its not all about that bus.

 

okey here are the results i have all the screenshots for proof if you want to check.So results are:

1024x768 = 9808
1280x1024 = 7960
1600x1200 = 6511

 

do some gaming benchmarks!

 

I quess this rests the 7900gs vs. 8700gt dilema. I've seen many disscusions about nvidia's benchmark where the two are compared. But it seems Nvidia was right. This also brings me to wonder what does dual-rate 128 mean? On a res high as 1600x1200 the advantage should be on the side of a 256 bus no matter what the rest of the components are (since the bottleneck in this case is GPU) but it seems this is not the case.

The 7950gtx could still be the fastest though (strangely I haven't found any benchmarks that compare these two in a wide range of resolutions).

 

hope i helped m8.

 

Do you know if the built-in card reader can read SDHC cards?

 

So the Quadro FX 1600M is pretty good, right?

What would you need to tweak and such to get a workstation card to run games well?

 

i think this are the 256mb versions since mine does 4.7k with default settings and drivers.

well the card works perfectly with current 163.67 laptopvideo2go drivers scoring almoust 5000 3d marks now since i made some adjustments to the notebook ( software ones ) and as said 1000 times before its the basically the 8700GT with maybe a 100 marks loss. playing bioshock full details 1280x1024 with perfection i dont feel the slightest hmmm how do you say it.... glitching ? i mean the game isnt running hard and the mouse not seeming that its hard to move. Went with transformers the game aswell did that in 1400x1xxx something cant remember now it went great aswell. Did the Overlord 1280x1024 full details 400-500 spawns imps (with trainer ofcourse) call them what you like behind me not a single glitch or a fps fall under 38fps. I cannot express my happines especially with this model since it has a really nice setup just breathing with quality.

P.S. dont want to sound stupid for giving all the credits to my lappy i realise there are zilion notebook better then this one but its just how it fells to me since i had the p100-10p aswell and the nx9420 and b4 thouse the asus ferrari edition. I must say this lappy really owns aswellas the nx9420. I cant explain it, simply feels good working on it.

 

this is what it can read what see and tested.
XD, SD, MS, MS PRO, MS DUO, MMC

 

Yes, but can it read SDHC cards (up to 8gb capacity for the moment)?
Regular SD cards only go up to 2gb capacity.

 

in the prosspect theSDHC is not listed so i would suppose not.