7811-FX Unboxing Pics, I got mine too!

As posted on my blog I got the 7811FX today at BestBuy, I have to go play hockey tonight but I'll post my impressions on its COD4 and CS:Source/TF2 tonight on the blog and here.

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Congratulations, very nice to see people are getting these faster than expected.

 

Congratz...

So did they start selling these in store?

 

Apparently, some stores have been getting them. Earliest we know of is yesterday.

Also, congratulations on your new laptop.

PS: Great 2001: A Space Odyssey poster there.

 

If they have them in the store they'll sell them.

 

So although their website says they don't have them in stock, they might still be carrying them in the store?

 

Nice! You're starting to make me want one .

 

Wow I am droolin' over it!!!! Too bad its 17" =(

 

that is puuuurtty! i want one..LOL but its over my budget

 

I was on the fence, but that looks really nice. I expected the FX on it to be uglier lol.

Can't wait to see how well it runs COD4

 

can you post a 3dmark06 score?

edit: and please run it at 1280x1024

 

It runs CoD4 great! I played through the first ship mission with bone stock drivers and steam open and DL'ing and it pretty much only dipped below 60fps during the wide shots of the big ship. I'm downloading 3dMark06 and TF2/CS:S right now not sure if it'll finish before I get to sleep though

 

Is that on native all settings maxed?

 

Cool! Congrats on the new purchase!

 

as close as I could get it, the settings maxed out at 1900x1080

 

Wow That Soudn sweet! Some other person was getting 35fps with 8800GTS on 1440x900 so I was a little worried.

But 60 means the performance is doubled! That's good news.

Btw why is it 1900x1080, doesn't the game support 1920x1200?

 

It is impossible that the 9800M GTS is 2x faster than the 8800M GTS

 

Hey wong. I'm jealous of your screen. Do me a favor, rip yours off and FED-EX it to me. In return, I'll send you mine, $13.44, a dented can of SPAM and a naked picture of Bea Arthur. Deal?

 

Wong please do a proper benchmarks and post some pics.
Tel us the resolution , AA, AF
Congrats about new lappy

 

dook how you managed to undervolt to 2.212v ?

 

Can you please tell me how much is your CPU subscore in Windows Experience Index? Thx!

 

LOL. Good call. I was kinda under the influence the other day when I updated the sig. What sad is that it took you pointing it out for me to notice.
Thanks, btw.

 

What's your fps? I really am shocked that there's that much of a difference in performance between the 8800m GTS and the 9800m GTS.

Then again, when you see the 9600m GT beating the 8700m GT by miles then it could be the same with the 9800m GTS overtaking the 8800m GTX.

 

Here's my 3Dmark Scores 1280x1024, Like I said bone stock out of the box just turned off some of the bloatware. Nvidia driver says version 7.15.11.7580.

 

Why Isn't It Detecting GPU

 

thats quite impressive scores. i wonder how much of it is due to gpu by itself.

 

Not sure if it's because its new or what any ideas? Any recommendations of drivers I should load?

 

That Thing Is Hot!!!!!

 

Wish i could get a sticker for my palmrest that says "Generic VGA Inside"
)

 

With a graphic of Descent or Wolfenstein hehe

 

It doesn't hit the mark here. Any insight as to why? Can't spot the CPU they used for the benchmark so that's maybe the cause.

 

I feel a little better seeing these results, because now I see that actually the difference in performance between 8800M GTS and 9800M GTS is very minimal.
8800M GTS uses 500/1250/800 clock on default, the 9800M GTS uses 600/1500/800.

First I run 3DMark06 with the default clocks:


Now I run 3DMark06 with 600/1500/800 (the clocks of 9800M GTS):


As you can see, the difference between the 2 GPU is very minimal. At least according to 3DMark ANd the 9800M GTS only performns better because it is set to higher clocks. However any prevous FX user can set his 8800M GTS clocks to 600/1500/800...for me the 8800M GTS runs on the same temps at 600/1500/800 as on its default clocks (60-65C), so I dont see any problem to just modify the clocks.

Personally I will not change my 6831FX for 7811FX, because at this moment, my 6831FX performes better with this CPU
I think 7811FX is only good for people who are:
-new to Gateway FX laptops and didnt have one before
-Tech geeks who allways want the newest stuff
-addicted to Overclocking and want to try to get 10k+ in 3DMark06

However gz for your new rig man

ps: Only watch the GPU results, I got better CPU, that is why my overal score is way bigger. (Oh and I use Vista Business 64bit)

 

I didnt reinstall the OS fresh and I'm using the drivers it came with maybe?

 

Could it be cause of the resolution you were doing the benchmark with? You said your res was 1280x1024. Try 1280 x 800. I think that's what they use on that site.

 

They used a Q6600 in this test

Modell CPU Speicher Kern / Speicher GPU Speicher Wert
(Standard 1280x1024) Q6600 2048 MB 600 / 800MHz 512MB GDDR3 177.39 9683

 

For the guy looking for the windows experience rating





I've tried to load nvidia's new drivers that have the physics but get the "THe Nvidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit" error. Any ideas why that's going on?

 

She's a beauty no matter what. Thanks for the post!

 

I plan to pick up one of these as soon as they arrive in my local BestBuy. Should be either Wednesday or Saturday!

I have a question about the WiFi card. Even though Gateway used the 5100 card, have they retained the 3 antennas from the 6831 chassis setup for the4965 card or did they only install 2 antennas in the 7811? If they kept all 3 then upgrading to the 5300 card will be easy. Otherwise the 5100 may be a downgrade (for range) from the 4965. Just curious if anyone has taken a look under the hood?

 

lol who would take it apart on the second day ?

 

I call not it!

 

Post pics of your in game settings of CoD4 and the fps you have at those settings, please.

I'm also curious about the DMC4 benchmarks.

 

The new driver package with the physics says it for desktop gpu's only. I have not had any luck finding newer drivers on Nvidia or Gateway site

 

I have been eagerly anticipating the release of this laptop, but now with the announcement that the 9000 series line of mobile GPU's is also bad, I'm kinda hesitant....

 

Bad? How? I know it's not a huge leap from the 8800M GTS but it's definitely not bad.
Again, why do you think it's bad?

 

Okay I installed the 177.83 drivers and said I had an 9800GT and they installed. My new 3D mark score @ 1280x1024 (same as before) is 8819/ SM2.0: 4162/ SM3.0: 3916/ CPU 2054


I ran the MKZ Benchmark that came with the new forceware drivers.

@1920x1200

Average: 24
Min: 14
Max: 39


@1280x1024
Average: 32
Min: 17
Max: 47

 

He's talking about how it looks like they're the same as the 8xxxx series and failure rates. I'm a bit scared by this too but thankfully I have a warranty.

 

wow, it looks exactly same as my 6860.

 

Yikes! Why can't ATi pump in some high end mobile GPU's? If only we had choice!

 

It's rumors for now, I'll get pissed if mine busts. Till then I'm quite happy.

 

Smells to me like problems are limited to GO70,84,86 but who knows. There was some quirkiness with 8800GT maybe. One would hope they would have it figured out by 98xx.