virtualclone? Do you mean http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html?
I'm not using that...
Btw, I used OEM Nvidia drivers, Nvidia Beta driver breaks the Win 7 up...
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BB's price went up today. It's now $1149
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Now all the early adopters can feel really good. 1050 price and the accidential 1920x1200 screen. I heck of a deal.
Still though at 1150 is still cheaper than i got my 6860 for and has decently better specs than the 6860 did at base so its still a great deal (just not as good as the original) -
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I applied the exact same settings and my average fps comes out to be 8. Just "8." When I turn down every single option to lowest, I still get barely playable.
The ONLY difference is that I am using the official drivers rather than the DOX ones.....
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Last year: FX68xx at $$1350 all sold out. ( 1.6x GHz, 1440x900, Nv 8800 )
This year: FX7805 at $$1150 for way better specs. ( 2.2x GHz, 1900x1200, Nv 9800 )
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I'm hoping somewhere in the range of:
2.6gHz quad, 1440x900(or) 1920x1200, ati 4850 or 4870. $1250.00-1500.00
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So how many people got the extended warranty for $200 - $350. Still cant decide if its truly worth the cost. Is Gateways own CS good?
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I did, but i travel alot so i wanted the "just in case" protection of a full replacement should anything happen.
If you just sit it at a desk and never/rarely move it then the warrenty is less of a good deal
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Well you could just get accidental at safeware or I think the name is safe trade...One doesn't cover theft and of course that's the one I can't think of
. But what I really want to get is the BB one where I can drop it in 2.5 years and get a new laptop :O
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I went to the bestbuy in clovis, ca and they did have the 1920x1200 model on the floor. I got to thinking that I'll just stick with the 1440x900 because the laptop is not for me, I'm getting it for the parents. I saw the 1920x1200 and I think the resolution is too small for them.
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Since I already bought one a few days ago for 1050$ if I show them the receipt will they let me buy another one for 1050?
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My wife has a P-6860fx, and she likes the 1440x900, so I just its a personal preference thing, I bet most people (outside of this site) wouldn't even notice or care.
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For working on things i want the 1920x1200 (or 3 screens of 1920x1200) so i can veiw massive amounts of documents with out min/maxing them all the time.
1920x1200 just isnt that great of a gaming res unless you have a major GPU kicking... and the 8800gts/9800gts is not a major GPU. Good but not enough to justify 1920x1200 res for gaming. -
Anyone who really wants a good screen res, buy a 22" monitor for around $200.00, you still got a great deal on a computer, and if you goto a lan, I am sure you can deal with a great looking 1400x900.
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I've glanced here and there at this thread and noticed a lot of people are upgrading their CPU. How easy/recommended is this to do?
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Picked one up yesterday in NJ. Batch #I002718. I got caught up in all the hype that I am having buyer's regret. Not sure if I need it but the laptop specs just made it too good to pass up. The box is just sitting there calling me to open it! What to do!!! If laptop was better than my current desktop it would've been cracked open already!
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I have a question if any of you have experienced this. I bought this laptop on 1/5 and got it on 1/8. worked fine for 2 days and then when i run it my screen goes completely white when im in 1900 res. If i close the lcd and open it it works fine again, then a little while later does the same thing. I have hooked up another monitor to my laptop and when the laptop goes white the other monitor doesnt.
So i was figuring it mabye just the cable that connects to the lcd panel on the laptop. But it seems when i knocked my res down to 1400 and run it it works fine. been working now for about a day with no white screen.
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I was just wondering if most of you guys use just one user account. IE... do you just use the admin account or do you just use a user account, and which is better to use
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I am no computer wiz..but I think it would be best to have multiple accounts for different things, ie one for gaming and one for work because the info will be spread out from each other in different areas of the hdd
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Honestly if you dont want it take it back. No use in having a product you dont need/want. As long as you havent opened it you get all your money back.
And if in the end you want it then you have a great spec laptop for cheap
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258bit = it can only use up to 512MB VRAM. So no matter if it had 1TB of VRAM, it wouldn't be able to use it. So the 512MB and 1GB 9800M GTS's are basically the same
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...aps&hvadid=17791828511&ref=pd_sl_5ll5jmwosf_b
Which one of those are the one your talking about? Also which cloth do you use for it? the microfiber, chamois, or the finer chamois? Or all of them? -
@SemiGamer, just use Nvdia's system control tool (used to be NTune)
And this is what I think I use, bought at Frys... http://www.klearscreen.com/detail.aspx?ID=3 -
I was caught up in the excitement of the Gateway, but now I'm swinging back to the G50vt. -
Anyways, to each their own, but you can buy normal microfilber cloths anywhere (walmart, etc) in big packs, and any good aerosol glass cleaner that is non-ammonia, non-alcohol, and for about the same price you get a big pack of cloths and a big can or two of this Sprayway Glass cleaner, available most places.
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And what're you saying use it for? Overclocking ?
Thanks for the link.
EDIT: Nevermind, found the Nvidia System Tools.
What overclocks do you find most stable? (I know it varies from each system but would like to know a zone I should go for)
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@lancorp, no offense taken. It was on the way to the counter at Frys, ha ha, thats how I ended up with them.
But the chamois they have is the really good kind. The Microfiber, not so much...I've had microfiber for my Camera equipment and my car that's better.
A cloth that cleans lenses are probably good, but you shouldn't interchange their use...like start using on your laptop...then later use them on glasses... buy some for exclusive use on your laptop I guess. I use eclipse pads on my camera filters and lenses, and they are really good but not reusable. -
Even the older/lower end GPU's sharing memory could reserve more than 1 gig of memory so there is something wrong here with your math.............
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Chances are gateway may put the WXGA+ screen in it.
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Windows reads space differently than the harddrive manufacturers, so it'll always show up less than what the drive says it is. Don't worry, the space is there, its not "missing".
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It would read 350GB as 288GB ? I would expect it to read 350GB as like 340GB or something.
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This laptop is beautiful. Sucks they dont sell it in Canada... Anyone know how much they charge for duty if i were to bring it across the border from WA to BC?
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Guys I am still debating on whether or not to get the Best Buy plan..I don't think there is any theft protection. Is there? I think I won't if there isn't, though I guess I would still be saving money if I got lo-jack on this(if I can).
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Lol yea i should... The thing comes out to 1500 after WA tax and the bad Cdn dollar exchange... its either this or the Acer 8930. Laptops are to hard to shop for. =D
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$1500 dollars.. not dell... lol
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I didn’t get the bestbuy warranty, Gateway gives you a year by that time better notebooks will be available and I don’t plan on lugging it around to much so I don’t need the added protection plan. Did you guys notice when you registered with gateway they didn’t have the P-7805u to select I just selected the P-7801u hopefully that will do, don’t know.
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I spent the same, got the 3yr accidental warranty for $350 so it came out to $1500. I also get a battery replacement so I will try and remember to use that before the 3yr. I usually get accidental warranty when I buy electronics, to me its worth it. I used them before and they work out great. Something portable, parents, lil bro and sis would equal some type of accidental damage. I am tempted to get this for myself but I don't need a laptop.
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If its a 320gb hard drive, that means 320 billion bytes. When formatted, you end up with about 298gb, I believe there is a hidden recovery partition of about 10gb. Thats probably why it shows up as 288gb
320,000,000,000 bytes
divided by 1024 megabytes to a gigabyte
divided by 1024 kilobytes to a megabyte
divided by 1024 bytes to a kilobyte
= 298.02 gigabytes
They advertise hard drives by declaring a gigabyte as 1 billion bytes, but to a computer, a gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes
Thats why they show up smaller.
I believe that the 1 billion bytes to a gigabyte is officially the true "Gigabyte" whereas the 1,073,741,824 bytes to a gigabyte is actually called a "Gibibyte" short for giga binary byte referring to the fact that it is 2 ^ 30 bytes
Buncha techno mumbo jumbo is what it isAnd post 1500 to boot!
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Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by fbettis, Dec 22, 2008.