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    Observations of a new CTO dv8000t

    Discussion in 'HP' started by AzizaVFR, Aug 3, 2006.

  1. AzizaVFR

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    From all the information I have read in various sites, including this one, I pulled the trigger on purchasing a new HP Pavilion dv8000t. At the time, HP was offering $200 worth of instant and mail-in rebates. On top of that, I received an employee discount from my company with HP. I wanted to replace my existing Compaq v2000z laptop and my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ desktop with one portable computer. I believe I have succeeded.

    Due to the supply and demand when I ordered this system, it took 16 days from order to receipt. I was not too worried. It just helped to build the suspense. The day of its arrival, I was fully aware what needed to take place from the excellent walkthroughs, showing the various pitfalls of software preservation and preparation.

    The first thing I did after heaving the monster out of the box was get all the DVD's I needed to generate the recovery and software backup CD. In all, it took six discs, four for the recovery set, and two for making a backup of the \SWSETUP directory. I also made an addtional CD-RW of the most recent drivers from HP and Intel sites. Even the HP QuickPlay 2.1 software is located in the \SWSETUP\HPQPDP.

    Following and understanding the guides to getting this particular system reformatted and installed correctly was crucial. I will admit, I screwed up twice, before getting it right. Once the chipset and SATA drivers were installed and properly activated, it was a very simple installation from that point on.

    While doing some investigations, it seems the current systems are being shipped with PC2-5300, DDR2-667MHz DIMMs. I was under the impression it would come with 533MHz units. It was a nice surprise. So far I have been fortunate to have no dead pixels, nor a keyboard with any errors.

    I tested the performance of this system to the others I own with Performance Test v6.0. It can be found here. The overall scores were:
    Compaq V2000z (AMD Turion ML-37) - 312
    HP nc6230 (work notebook, Pentium M 750) - 409
    AMD Athlon 64 3000+ desktop - 519
    HP Pavilion dv8000t (Intel Core Duo T2500) - 596

    The areas were the dv8000t really shines are in the processor and memory speed. For what I want to use this system for, it shall suffice for quite a while.

    Enjoy,
    AzizaVFR
     
    AzizaVFR, Aug 3, 2006
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