5796 Arrived

Just arrived 30 minutes ago. Still installing programs/drivers etc... wont comment till after all this is done. Pretty much the same as the 5793. Fans actually do seem a little bit quieter on low auto mode. High sounds the same. Silent Mode is a little bit lower than low auto mode. Will post temps for you Eleron. No dead pixels again which is good. The e-sata port still functions as a USB port so we still have 4 usb ports instead of 3 which is what is stated on the resellers and sager's website.

GPU Load = 68
CPU Load = 44

GPU Idle = 44
CPU Idle = 32

HD IDle is a bit hot = 50

All these temps are with a zalman nc2000.

EDIT: RM CLOCK WORKS. Im guessing that since im using a T9600, instead of a P series chip RM clock is recognizing it. Unlike dreidel who has a p9500

3D Mark score of 9598 w/ stock drivers.
With 175.75 i get 9785
With 177.41 i get 9821

Seems like the stock drivers are not the best.
Something a bit weird i guess with the CPU, when im using rm clock to monitor the cpu it seems like when it is throttling it goes up to 2.85 ghz. It doesn't have that extra multiplier in the rm clock window so either its actually going above 2.8 or RM Clock is buggy because of the different FSB. Nonetheless changing the voltages work. Later today i will try lowering the voltage on my vid card and see what kind of batter life i get. I got around 4 hrs on my 5793 with UV CPU and GPU.

 

What drivers? They've got updated ones already? Also WTB benchies =P

 

review, review, REVIEW! ....please?
btw, what date did you order it on (not the pre order, ie after 15th)

 

Ordered it on the 22nd. Not going to be doing an indepth review as this is pretty much 95% the same as the 5793 which there are tons of reviews on. Also since i owned the 5793 i can tell from using this that there are no real big differences. I will post some info tomorrow, still busy formatting.

 

Silent mode is a little buggy, after a restart i dont get the silent mode/normal mode message when pressing the buttons.

 

WTF I ordered mines on the 23rd and it hasn't finished being built yet =(. Which shipping method did you choose?

 

is there a new driver for the 9800m gt or no? can we use any of the current ones?

note:i ordered mine on the 22nd and mine will be here tomorrow

 

cant wait for the benchmarks, please record some videos and take pictures too thanks

 

The driver CD that comes with the 5796 has video drivers for the 9800m GT but i don't think they are very good. nVidia doesn't have them on their site so I am thinking they are a "beta" driver in that they are temporary until nVidia releases official drivers.

 

They dont build on weekends. I did next day air w/ student discount. h575309 all of the drivers at laptopvideo2go will work with any of the cards. All you need is a modified inf which you get can at laptopvideo2go.

 

I'm starting to think they released Silent Mode pre-maturely. My normal mode turns the fans off/on when needed at mostly idle (just internet browsing) which I think is how it's supposed to be. Silent mode downclocks the CPU as expected, but the thing is the fans ALWAYS turn on when I activate it. Then never turn off. I called powernotebooks.com technical support and they told me to give it 20 mins to run with fans in order for it to reach a low temp so that the fans could completely turn off at that low temp for silent mode to work. I tried waiting for a while, didn't work.

I might just forget about fixing it because I actually like the fact that Silent Mode turns the fans on non-stop because then I can set the power mode to power saver when im doing normal tasks. Then the CPU downclocks to .86Ghz and with fan running at full blast non-stop I can have nice cool temps, theoretically increasing my laptops life.

 

awesome dude -

great news - now what's your 3dmark06 score pray tell?

 

Hmm Rm Clock Works

 

You can overclock??

 

RM clock is not for overclocking. Its for undervolting so your laptop uses less power and it becomes cooler.

 

Haha. I just took a look at my desktop. Its Clockgen i was thinking about. I have both the applications. whats max battery life when undervolting?

 

come on where u at? wheres the numbers

 

He already said he wasn't doing that kind of review.....and he has a good reason go read a 5793 review its the same graphics card.

 

Digits ... give them to us, right now

 

lol sure. because the T9600 is NOT different from any previous processor - right? LOL. While 3dmark may be mainly GPU it still measures CPU.

 

Its a 2.8ghz cpu what are you expecting??? It's already been shown that montevina gpu's are maybe 3% faster at best. There is already a 5793 review with a extreme cpu running overclocked and stock which is 2.8ghz. His 3dmark06 score is probably going to be around 9400.

 

P8400 but p series nonetheless

 

Hmm, after reformat every time i restart the hot key images dont show up. Like when i press silent mode i would get silent mode enabled or normal mode. Now when i press the button it doesn't appear.

 

ur screwed

 

Ok with the T9600 the max speed it throttles up to is 2.85 which is weird.

 

I received mine roughly 2 hours ago. Booted up and working fine. The fans do not bother me much. I noticed after installing my virus program of choice, the fans were working a bit more. I'll answer any questions to the best of my ability. During casual browsing: ACPI is currently at 44C. CPU1 is 22C. CPU2 is 15C. HDD is at 49C. (A little warm). GPU is at 52C. Taken with PC Wizard 08.

 

Can you download hw monitor and monitor your cpu temps again. Those seem really low compared to mines

 

Your suspicions were correct.

Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

ACPI hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 46°C (114°F) [0xC76] (THM0)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 43°C (109°F) [0x3E] (core #0)
Temperature sensor 1 38°C (100°F) [0x43] (core #1)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

GeForce 9800M GT hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 51°C (123°F) [0x33] (GPU Core)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

TOSHIBA MK2049GSY hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 50°C (122°F) [0x32] (HDD)

 

There you go that is more like it. That is what it should have been. I thought that maybe mines was mounted wrong
My hard drive is 50 idle to so we are good.

 

Hmm Nibitor doesn't seem to work yet with the 9800gt

 

So the 8800M GTX simply runs hotter at idle, my 7950GTX idles at 35C(XP) and 38C(Vista).
Other than that, no improvement, and the noise thing is a bummer, darn.

Have you reinstalled the HotKey driver?

CPU temps don`t look ok to me, as in ...they are probably NOT that low.

I use HWMonitor and RMClock and they show a few C differences...

What, already set to flashing ?

May you enjoy your new laptop, minkang and make the best of it

 

To those interested, my system came through at 9419 3DMarks.

 

Could you post a screenie? I want to see the individual scores, CPU especially.

 

; ; only 19 points off from what I predicted.

 

No Nibitor makes me sad I am getting 2 1/2 hours on battery with cpu dc and 4/7 screen brightness. Nibitor would have gave me another 1 - 2 hours : (
If the 9800 is actually a rebranded 8800mgtx i wonder if flashing it with the 8800mgtx bios woulds screw it up. Cause Nbitor doesn't recognize the bios/board.

 

UPDATE: Got the Hotkey thing working again. I had to mess around with the startup apps. I put the hotkey thing in through startup registry and now it works every time. It was in the startup folder but it wasnt working so had to put it in through the registry.

 

oh man, my laptop is in my city but i cant get it!!! lol dang ups coming when everyones at work. ah well.. full review coming soon!