Yay! My HDX is here!

Hey guys

Just got my HP HDX today, and I love it! Watching 300 on HDDVD right now, and boy does it look fabulous. The screen is fantastic. Installing a couple of games right now. World In Conflict seemed to run pretty smoothly when I played the tutorial level. Not a hiccup at all, and that was on 1280x1024 on high settings, with AA turned off as well as DX10.

I'll see how well it runs using the DX10 goodies.

Will post some pics and hopefully some benchmarks soon.

 

Can you please confirm what size video card you got. Is it the 512mb, or the 256mb card? I'm just confused. When I first saw it on the hp site it said video card 512MB. I looked at it last week it said 256MB card. h

I did see this laptop in my local store it is huge. I just loved it!! Probably going to take the plunge after the new year.

Thanks.

 

I've got the 256mb card. Thankfully, HP use the cards with DDR3, so you dont have to worry about that. I live in the UK, and the HDX models here are only in 256mb. Seems only the lucky americans get the option of the 512mb card.

To be honest, i'm not that fussed. Ive just been playing medal of honor airborne which runs on highest settings at 1280x1024, with no slowdown. Silky smooth framerate with only the slightest slowdown when an extreme amount of stuff goes on at once.

World in conflict also runs very nice, from what i have played (only played the tutorial level so far).

Still, the big killer component of the HDX is the screen. Best screen I've ever seen. Once you get a HDDVD running on it, you'll truly fall in love with the HDX. You should ask your local store if they have any HDDVD demo discs, they usually do.

 

There wasn't ever a 512 card. It was always 256 + 256 Hypermemory. HP just changed the way it's listed.

 

Lithus is right, HP and a bunch of other manufactures stopped posting the total memory amount of video card RAM to be the shared and dedicated, and started posting only the dedicated RAM because customers were getting confused and complaining once they realized the card itself didn't contain the full amount listed. I mean, if they kept listing the total video card RAM as dedicated and shared they could have said 2GB if they wanted to, because I had 4GB of RAM in my system and I had 1792MB shared to the 256mb dedicated video card to get the 2GB total.

 

Thanks for the reply guys. Even though when I get one of these monsters, it won't strictly be used for gaming it would have been nice to have a dedicated 512MB card (nothing like a little extra power).

Hey, didn't a HP rep say that the HDX would be getting a nvidia card later in the year??

 

I'm not sure, but if you aren't happy with the machine you have 21 days to return it, even if you already opened and started using it, no questions asked.

 

I dont think they showed 512 but more like 511 as the video memory back then.

 

Dont worry scanner. The 256mb card in it runs great. I'm happily chugging away through Medal of Honour airborne with no probs, at high settings naturally

 

Thanks for all the info. Congrats to you on your purchase. I envy you.