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    Another 9262 on its way

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ronaldheld, Nov 12, 2008.

  1. ronaldheld

    ronaldheld Notebook Deity

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    I ordered on today, fairly ordinary configuration:
    17" WUXGA (1920x1200) Glossy Widescreen
    nVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX 1GB
    Intel(R) Core™2 Quad Processor Q9650 3.0GHz Processor w/12M L2 Cache - 1333MHz FSB
    Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
    4GB (2 SODIMMS) DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
    320GB SATA II 3GB/s 5,400 RPM Hard Drive (8MB Cache Buffer)
    RAID Disabled
    Blu-Ray Read - DVD-CD R-RW
    Built-in Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5300 802.11a/g/n
    XP Pro
    I am expecting it in a couple of weeks.
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 12, 2008
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Nice. :)

    Its going to scream... especially with the XP Pro. ;)
     
    Gophn, Nov 12, 2008
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  3. ahl395

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    Wow, nice notebook your going to get! :)

    I bet it cost alot of $$$
     
    ahl395, Nov 12, 2008
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  4. Shyster1

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    Probably about US$3,400 or so.
     
    Shyster1, Nov 12, 2008
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  5. ronaldheld

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    Correct Shyster1. Gophn, I hope so!
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 13, 2008
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  6. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I'm insanely jealous right now! :D
     
    Shyster1, Nov 13, 2008
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  7. ronaldheld

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    Hold off for a few weeks, since I do not have it, yet.
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 13, 2008
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  8. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Congratulations Ronald! You've been waiting a long time . . . :)

    Definitely worth the money, we'd like to see some benchmarks for that Q9650 when the beast arrives.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Nov 13, 2008
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  9. ronaldheld

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    Chaz, I will try to be accomodating. Besides the 3DMarks06, what did you have in mind? I hope to have enough patience to run the benchmarks before I start to customize and load my apps.
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 14, 2008
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    3dmark vantage is my only request...
     
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  11. ronaldheld

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    Isn't 3dmark vantage for Vista OSs?
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 14, 2008
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  12. Bill F

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    Why no RAID0? 3x320 GB drives would own.
    Should have gone with SLI GTs instead of a single GTX IMO.
     
    Bill F, Nov 14, 2008
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  13. Shyster1

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    GT's are getting very hard to find, and the GTX in SLi is very dear, so it's a reasonable approach to start off with just one GTX. Same goes for hard drives - the beauty of the D901C is that you can add more drives later on, particularly as the prices come down, so if one has to be a bit careful of the total budget, starting off with just one drive is a perfectly good decision.
     
    Shyster1, Nov 14, 2008
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  14. Charles P. Jefferies

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    SLI GTs are not available with the NP9262 anymore.

    Also, RAID 0 is a bad idea - you double the risk of data loss, or with three drives, triple it since you are depending on three hard drives. That is an enormous risk. RAID 0 provides little to no everyday performance improvement. If anything, I'd go with RAID 1, which mirrors data across identical hard drives. A two-drive RAID 1 array will protect a system from a single hard drive failure. I run two RAID 1 arrays in my desktop, and it has paid off before when one of my drives failed.
    Yes, so you can't run it on XP. 3DMark06 is still a very legitimate benchmark, which will give a good indication what the system is capable of. It has excellent CPU benchmarks as well.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Nov 14, 2008
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  15. ronaldheld

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    It shipped yesterday. I should have it next week, maybe before Thanksgiving.
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 20, 2008
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    Congrats, looks like a great machine. Looking forward to the 3dmark06 score.
     
    OGLoc, Nov 20, 2008
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  17. ronaldheld

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    Maybe on Turkey day, I can post that score.
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 20, 2008
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    The big box just came. I will have things to do on Turkey day.
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 26, 2008
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    Did the usual windows startup, and the multicore procedure. I ran Wprime and got about 13.6 seconds. I ran 3DMark06 and got 9401. Is that too low for a single 9800 TX?
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 27, 2008
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    raid 0 with mirror on 3rd hard drive would cover him....

    and you should be in the 10k range for stock gpu 9800m gtx with a quad core.

    [​IMG]
     
    Johnksss, Nov 27, 2008
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  21. ronaldheld

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    I download a windows update and defraged the drive. Ran the benchmark again and got 10957. That seems more like what I would have expected.
     
    ronaldheld, Nov 27, 2008
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    yes it does!
     
    Johnksss, Nov 27, 2008
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