Is it time?

Yesterday, my wife asked me to watch a video clip in regards to her work. I have primarily let her use the Gateway 7805u for her use and I use my Asus G73, see both below in sig.Now as I was the watching the video, I was stunned to see that the video display was rather bad compared to my ASUS G73 and even my tablet watching the same video clip. The pixelation between colors, the angle at which you must sit relative to the screen(pretty much you have to be right in front of it), not to mention a little lag between picture and voice are very noticeable. Have tested a few youtube videos on all three and in the small screen format, not entire screen and the Gateway is by far the worst.
So,anyone have similar machine setup that has done all the video update drivers and see significant improvement in this area to the point where there is no lag or is that no longer obtainable with these machines any longer? It might be time to retire it.
Tanware, I know you have been on here since I started on the site and would certainly like your input on this matter.

 

Multiple issues here;
1.) drivers could make for a huge difference in lag. The same for pixelization through compression loss. No matter what the 9800m is not going to keep up with more modern GPU's and more recent drivers are tuned towards their performance not to the older GPU's
2.) the screen With the CCFL's performance degrades. Nature of the Tech, also our screens being older tech have poor viewing angles. This is not to say even newer screen may not have poor viewing angles. The degrading backligh doesn't help here either.
3.) since the screen tech is older, stock is usually of older screens that are avail;able for replacement. While it may help somewhat it is doubtfull you can actually get an upgrade from the original.
4.) My Samsung 120Hz LED on the new system just blows the old gateway screen away in color and vibrance etc etc etc.....................

 

Thanks Tanware, I must agree with your assessment. Items 2-4, I pretty much knew anyway, it was #1 that was the one I needed to know. I just don't want to spend a whole lot of time downloading and testing drivers to only get marginally better quality and I think that is what your saying here. My G73 was way better than the 7805 when I bought it and now, being 2 years old, is passe' as far as tech goes.Well, until they make graphic cards easily replaceable/upgradeable in laptops, these will be throwaway machines every 3-4 years unless you plan on never playing newer games at the resolution and frame rate that they were meant to be played at. And by throwaway, I mean, sell to somebody else.

 

When the software tells the GPU to decode with Cuda it doesn't use all of the GPU's resource. This is why the load to GPU is so low. as the drivers mautre and features add that may need for more GPU resorces from the older systems the driver writers are optimizing for the new GPU not old ones and the older GPU's can then suffer in the performance area eevn though the load is no where near 100%.

Software updates can do the same thing. As writers become lazier with their code on faster GPU's older systems can suffer. When this happens and you get it from both sides of the house the end results can be horrible...............................