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    How many P78xx,79xx owners?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by TANWare, Mar 28, 2011.

  1. TANWare

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    Wondering how many current P78xx and P79xx owners we still have here........ :confused:

    Ooops asked mod too move this to the Gateway forum, I must have had too many windows open, sorry for the confusion......
     
    TANWare, Mar 28, 2011
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  2. TwiggLe

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    P7805u bone stock
     
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    p78 in my sig
     
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    Yep still use my p-7805u after nearly two years, best thing i bought, and still runs top end games with a bit of tinkering :)
     
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  5. TANWare

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    I guess there are a few of us still left here..........
     
    TANWare, Mar 29, 2011
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    I just got my 7908, and I'm rather happy. It's the first gaming computer I've ever owned.
     
    Lokgolo, Mar 29, 2011
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  7. TANWare

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    I am not sure why the 79xx did not take off. I guess the competion just put them out. That and the fact with the P78xx's they locked us out of quad cores. I strongly suspect Gateway did not lock the quads out of the 79xxx's but too little too late as they say. Also of course it was never adverstised nor supported as such.

    two other bad decisions was locking out the PLL for OC'ng and probably more important not supporting Extreme overclocking in bios. While TS came along it was well after when it needed to appear to save these machines.

    Gateway not getting a strong foot hold in the market caused the eventual death of FX gaming machines. They too though would have gone the 16:9 route, loosing the 1920x1200, so I do not miss them too much.

    On that note my next gaming machine will be a DTR with 1920x1200 or if unavailable a desktop may be in order. Hopefully I can stay this for a year or two...............
     
    TANWare, Mar 29, 2011
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  8. JRSOR

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    Wife has 7805, and I have a 7811 converted to 7901.
     
    JRSOR, Mar 29, 2011
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  9. TANWare

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    on the converted 7901, what 3DMark 06 scores do you get?
     
    TANWare, Mar 29, 2011
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    I don't have 3ddmark 06, under win exp 3d grafics at 5.9. 9305 3dmark.
     
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    Vista or Windows 7? I meant 3DMark 06, you get 9305 in 3DMark 06 or 3DMark Vantage?
     
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    Re-ran 3dmark 06 after installing new gateway(were win) drivers for the chipset and graphics. 9528 3DMarks
    Here is the page if someone want's to diagnose it for me. Result
    I am running a p8400 cpu 4gb ram that it the 7811 came with, a 1900x1200 display, currently set at 1600x1024.
     
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  13. TANWare

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    That is not bad, default is 1280x1024, my score is higher primarily from the cpu

    scores mine - yours
    total 10,911 - 9528
    CPU 3029 - 1985
    SM2 4932 - 4471
    SM3 4533 - 4628

    I am also assuming you are not overclocking the card yet either.......
     
    TANWare, Mar 29, 2011
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  14. JohnWhoTwo

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    Still here.

    7805u still purring along.

    Screen still looking great.
     
    JohnWhoTwo, Mar 29, 2011
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  15. Syngensmyth

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    Yep, still using my P-7811FX 1920x1200

    Upon it's eventually assuming room temperature, I will mourn it's loss and wander aimlessly seeking a replacement.
     
    Syngensmyth, Mar 30, 2011
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    After the P79xx series, has Gateway released any other gaming line of laptops yet?

    Also anyone know where you can still grab a P79xx series laptop from ? I've checked ebay now and then and haven't seen one for a long while.
     
    TwiggLe, Mar 30, 2011
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    I don't think they have a further gaming series laptop. The P79xx's were late 2009 into early 2010, an older release essentially. They were never really pushed that hard. We never even got a quad variant, only Canada, Australia and some of Europe. Those were the P7901h and P7906a.
     
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  18. Evil Claw

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    Still here, see sig.
     
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    Look up packard bell gx.
     
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  20. TANWare

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    That was a P78 FX in PB cloth, 9800m I amd not suer they had a 260m variant..............
     
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    Well im still here with my p7805u fx. Im going to build a desktop, and go ahead and put the p79 mother board in this laptop. Had i known I was able to interchange motherboards, I would have done that a year or so ago.
     
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  22. TANWare

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    yeah, someone else had done it already. So I am not treading new waters there. The new waters will be to see if quad core actually will work. Som one on Ebay was selling a P79xx they claimed that was upgraded to a quad so there is a good probability it will work.

    I thpught my system would be scroungy inside, it was not too bad. My GPU paste was solid but of course the cheap stuff. I placed ICD on the GPU, 4 memory chips and the component the HS also contacts. So it is definately ready to shead some heat.

    Without a doubt it does too. I ran Furmark for hours, it got to 92c and was a flame thrower. It never gets that hot gaming, 79-80c or so, but figured I'd give it a good break in.
     
    TANWare, Mar 30, 2011
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    Yep, still have a P-7811FX and still very happy with my Lappy :D

    I have had it now for over 2 years, and use it fairly often, and have never had any issues with that puppy. Great laptop. Of course I updated the operating system to Windows 7 Ultimate :p

    Glad to see several others still running these awesome 7xxxFX systems!!!
     
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    where did you get that motherboard?
     
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    off FleaBay 435.00, there are a few more there. An update though, I suspect there is no way the power profile of the P7805 would have handled the quad cores.

    The reason is that I've found with the P79 I've had to significantly lower the voltages to the x9100. Now I run 3.2 @ 1.0750, 3.45 @ 1.1625, 3.7 @ 1.2625 and 4.0 at 1.3750. Now 3.7 barely allows an extended run of orthose without an overheat, as before but 3.2 and 3.45 seem to run a little bit cooler.

    It seems this new board supplys much better/cleaner power to the CPU. So a heads up to anyone doing this as well with the x9100, you may need to lower your power profiles.
     
    TANWare, Mar 30, 2011
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    P7805u all the way ;)

    Put out a new video in honor of Crysis 2 on my channel (which I was barely using anymore lately)
     
    andros_forever, Mar 30, 2011
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  27. TANWare

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    So far 18 votes/users, more than I expected............
     
    TANWare, Apr 1, 2011
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    7811FX first day purchase.

    It has had its share of problems in the last two years, But I still use it to play video games.
     
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    This is off subject, but I have a P-7805u FX that I am selling for my son. He upgraded the cpu to a T-9900, has the WUXGA LCD (1920 x1200) and is running Windows 7 Home. It is in near new condition. Any suggestions on where to list for sale?

    Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
     
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  31. TANWare

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    If you can, Ebay. You could also list it here in the classified area............
     
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    Pretty good 23 P78's and 3 P79's, actually mine is a P78 but a P79 at heart......... :)
     
    TANWare, Apr 6, 2011
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    I'm still loving my P7811.
     
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    I put my one vote in for the P79xx quad core ... Unfortunately I may not continue to have this for very much longer if I can't figure out what's wrong with it, or if it's been permanently damaged.
     
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    That makes two of us. I was just about to ask what's wrong with it. Sorry to hear that, I planned on getting the p79 motherboard and cram it into my p78. Because that's the only way to upgrade the GPU.

    The GTX260m has 75% more cuda cores than the 9800m GTS. So I'll be making gaming love to the extra 75% extra frame rates.
     
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  36. TANWare

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    I have the board, you can view my benchmark threads. You get about 20-30% more oo the video card over the 9800m. In some rare instances you can see up to 50%..................
     
    TANWare, Apr 9, 2011
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    Well you can count me in to converting from a p7808u to a p7901h. Finally got it up and running after the media board ribbon and power board and ribbon were replaced.
     
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  38. TANWare

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    Alot to replace, you have the stock q9000 then?
     
    TANWare, Apr 13, 2011
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    Yes used the stock q9000
     
    AaronIROCZ, Apr 13, 2011
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    P-7811 FX still running nicely after 2.5 years... :)
     
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    mine too now, thanks to you .. lol. And with my QX9300 on order, i should be rollin good here in a couple weeks. and ill have my 180watt targus here with a backup brick tomorrow or Thursday. :-D
     
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    Still using my P7805u after two years as well. Just did upgrades on the CPU, SSD, and RAM... its plenty for my work and gaming needs :D
     
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    P7811FX Just upgraded the CPU to t9900 and 8gigs Ram (Little faster rendering for work and a little better gaming for play)
     
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