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    HP Pavillion Question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jake08, Feb 18, 2008.

  1. jake08

    jake08 Notebook Enthusiast

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    What do you think of the HP Pavillion laptops, do they break easily? What do you think of the HD Brightview screens. I might get the HP Pavillion DV6710EA the only thing i don't like is the Nvidia 7150m graphics card, anyone got it, i want to play Call Of Duty 1 on it. Aparently, aero lags with this card, can you tell me if its true?
    thanks :)
     
    jake08, Feb 18, 2008
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  2. GrandAdmiral

    GrandAdmiral Notebook Evangelist

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    Both my laptops have been HPs. My first laptop, a ze4281 did suffer some problems in early life, namely the plastic center of one of the USB ports fell out and the adaptor plug failed after about 2 years. Both of these problems were fixed and the laptop lasted a total of 4 years before it acquired a power fault on the motherboard. My new laptop is a dv6519tx running Windows XP. Had it for 6 months now and after getting through the problems of downgrading from Vista to XP its been running like a charm. The highest game i've tested it with is Star Wars Battlefront II and it will run near full quality (without Anti Aliasing) without lag. I didn't notice any lag with the aero effect in the short time i used Vista.

    Overall I would recommend HP other than their tech support which is a bit pathetic (driver updates take at least 3 months). Other than that, I like their machines.

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    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    The Brightview screens are quite nice...
    If you have the option, you might want to get a better gfx card
     
    timtravel42, Feb 18, 2008
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  4. jong81

    jong81 Notebook Consultant

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    My HP has the 7150M - I can tell you that Aero doesn't lag any more than anything else I've seen.

    From what I can garner from your post, you will NOT be happy with this card. I didn't buy this for gaming, but I tested Doom 3 on it and it ran, but to get it to run smooth, I had to lower the settings below medium. Upping the memory in the BIOS to 128MB helped a bit. I use it mostly for Warcraft III and that runs excellent.

    It's not a serious gaming GPU - and keep in mind - it's integrated. You sound like you need something that is a dedicated video card.

    Hope that helps. And here's a site that may help you determine what you need in terms of graphics. On the right column, you'll see all the graphic cards.

    Check this out:

    http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVidia-GeForce-8400M-GS.3709.0.html
     
    jong81, Feb 18, 2008
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  5. jake08

    jake08 Notebook Enthusiast

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    the only game i might be playing is COD1 which requires a 32mb T&L card, and the nvidia has 559mb shared memory. but ill mostly use it to go online though
     
    jake08, Feb 19, 2008
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