to anyone who has a dv9500t

Could you post your specs and the results on a 5 second test.
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest - Age of Conan

Oh and assuming you bought it from costco.com did it come with the AC power cord? Cause it's not a buy option nor does it list as included. They either don't or its presumed they do.

 

I bought mine from Costco, and yes it does come with a AC adapter & Power Cord.

Here are my specs in my signature.

I am wary though at running unknown software, from an unknown company, that has no visible means of support.

"Free", all too often means free malware or spyware.

 

system requirements lab is very popular software, and none of it is malware, however, it tends to be inaccurate.

 

I got mine at Costco and YES it does come with AC adapter and Power Cord (otherwise how would you even start it). Specs are Below

 

It is rather inaccurate.

It missed my second hard drive altogether, so it read my avaialble space incorrectly. As well, it read the available graphics card memory incorrectly, in much the same way.

 

Thank you so very much for that reassurance. The site is clean as can be vouched by other users here, however it is sometimes not accurate. It gives me an idea to compare the scores to other systems though

 

Perfect =D but why the angry face at your OS?
The system req lab honestly only takes 10 seconds.
Plus I'm curious now with your card that's 256Mb. Now they offer it in 500 mb

 

Yes, they sure do want some serious processing power.


All in all, I am quite satisfied. I just wish the fingerprint reader was in a different spot and it had a better touchpad.

 

I heard you can go into bios to fix some of that, and control panel to stop the beeping or messages. I don't know anything about BIOS though, you should look into that. Was in a review off this site I believe. I'll be using a wireless trackball whenever I can

 

Hmm I think the 512MB one your talking about is the 8600 GT not the GS.

 

And if you're talking about the 511Mb they include the amount of VRAM as if the system had 1 GB of RAM so its 256+255 its actually the 256MB(511) NVidia GeForce 8600GS

 

That is what I meant about it being inaccurate about vram in the same fashion as missing my second hard drive. Once it finds the native memory amount, it stops and assumes that is all there is. I guess it is fortunate it reads the total of two ram slots. LOL

 

Amount of RAM doesn't really matter. As long as it detects the right GPU, it's good.

When I was saying it was inaccurate, I didn't mean that it didn't detect what computer you had. I meant that even if it says you pass or fail the requirements, it doesn't necessarily mean you can or cannot play the game.

 

Lithus,

I think you misunderstood my post.

 

thoughts?

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 [included]
383MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS [add $76.00]
511MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS [add $149.00]

 

The 8600m GS in the HP is 256 dedicated. There are no 8600m GT's in HP's.

 

CPU
Minimum: Pentium 4/Athlon XP or better
You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
PASS
CPU Speed
Minimum: 3 GHz
You Have: 2.19 GHz Performance Rated at 5.43 GHz
PASS
System RAM
Minimum: 1 GB
You Have: 4.0 GB
PASS
Operating System
Minimum: Windows XP & Vista
You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Professional (Build 6000)
PASS
Video Card
Minimum: 128 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card with Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6800+ / ATI Radeon 9800+)
You Have: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS (GeForce 8600M GS)
PASS
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card

Video RAM: Required - 128 MB , You have - 256.0 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 3.0
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 3.0

Video Card Driver Version (DirectX)
Your driver version number is: 7.15.11.123
FYI: Your video card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper video card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product.
Sound Card
Minimum: Yes
You Have: Bluetooth Hands-free Audio
PASS
Sound Card Driver Version
Your driver version number is: 6.0.1.3700
FYI: Your sound card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper sound card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product.
Free Disk Space
Minimum: 3 GB
You Have: 140.7 GB
PASS
DVD
Minimum: Yes
You Have: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20L ATA Device
PASS, but the Speed could NOT be analyzed.

 

many thanks