Official Classic P-FX(6831, 6861) Owner's Thread

Welcome all ye who adopted the early versions of Gateway's once Awesome P-FX Budget Gaming Line!

Since I had to come back to these forums for a chance to check opinions on what to do for another persons laptop needs, I figured I'd stop by my old grounds. Alas, I do believe from what I've dug up, that Dook is still banned, and was probably guilty of whatever it happened to be. Sad that may be, Dook *was* the one who convinced me to get one of these.

Oh well. Discussion's open my friends.

 

yeah same here, I came back to these forums a week ago just by random. I'm running the same exact setup in your sig stealth and its still running strong.

Its nice to see a lot of new people join the fx series.

 

My 6831 is still going strong. The gpu has never overheated, the cpu is strong enough for any game, the display still looks like e but it looked like that the day I bought it. Thought I had an issue with the stock hdd but turns out I was just paranoid. Updated it to Win7 and it should go strong for another year or so. Best laptop purchase I have ever made.

 

I have the 6831 running on T9300 and 4gb ram too, the rest is stock.

Lappie's been serving me well, and GPU remains one of the better options in the market even after 1+ year.

However, I've been bugged by the number of GPU's that have fried and people selling off whatever they can salvage off the carcasses.

Is this time to change while the laptop still has some appeal and value? The warranty's over and Gateway's service is as good as nil. I'm very empted to jump ship to Asus G71GX-RX05 refurbs / new FX-es.

 

I have the 6831 as well. Got it in Feb 2008. Only thing I did was add the T9500 to it. lately the system seems to shut off when playing graphics intensive games. Tried cleaning it out/ reapplying AS to the processor. Just started looking at undervolting to see if that would help.

I also recently upgraded it to Windows 7 Home premium (32). Only thing that doesn't work is sleep mode.. which bugs the crap out of me.

I am looking to upgrade here soon to either the Asus G72GX, or one of the new P7900 series laptops. I like the fact that the Asus has UXGA and backlit Keyboards (they keys on the 6831 are so hard to read - especially the function keys.. light orange on black.. ok..right). Just trying to decide on which one.. I want to move my T9500 over to the new laptop and if I get the gateway one, upgrade to a better screen.

EDIT: I was able to solve my sleep mode problems by updating to the newest Intel WiFi drivers!