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The Witcher 2 recommended low-medium settings on the 560m. I upped them to somewhere between medium and high and it's been running smoothly. I'm thinking of trying high settings next time I open the game.

 

Which modded inf are you using?

 

v275.33 Windows 7/Vista 64bit | NVIDIA Mobile OEM - LaptopVideo2Go Forums


And yes, the brightness isn't adjustable with the modified inf. It sticks at whatever it was when you installed the driver I believe.

I haven't personally done it because I'm just fine with the brightness mine is at, but if you really wanted to change it, in theory, you ought to be able to just uninstall the driver, set your brightness to whatever you want it to be at and then reinstall it.

 

Try my modded inf in the link in my sig.
Yes theres a very big difference between it and the one on LV2G.

 

Alright, I'll give it a shot and report back

 

Ok, this may sound crazy, but if my NP8170 sells, I'm going with the NP8130. What should I know good/bad or indifferent without reading through 286 pages of posts?

I originally planned on my NP8170 as my primary PC and gaming, but that's changed. I will use my laptop for normal web and desktop tasks, and occasional gaming, primarily with a LAN get together a half dozen times a year.

Coming from a GTX 485m I know it will be painful a bit, but since it's not for every day gaming I think I can survive. What bugged me most about the NP8170 was the screen. And I figure if I can pocket $600-$700 after selling my NP8170 and buying an NP8130 that comes with a much better screen (stock config for the most part), the GTX 560m should do me well. Hoping for decent performance with Battlefield 3, Bad Company 2, and Starcraft 2, and a few games between now and end of year.

Thanks a billion and three.

 

I don't think there will be much to bother you about the 8130, I absolutely love my matte screen on mine, it's my all time favorite part of the laptop.

That said since you're biggest irk with the 8170 was the screen I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with the 8130 if matte is your goal.

 

In a nutshell, the NP8130 is a great computer. My only regret is getting an optical drive. But that's more of a personal issue xD

Matte is great. I would opt-in for an ssd unless you know of a good place that has them cheaper. The 560M will be able to run those games no problem. I can run Bad Company 2 on full settings with no problem.

 

GTX 560M owners give this modded inf a try with the 275.50 Verde Beta: INF_275.50.zip

Shouldn't have the issues people are getting with the one from LV2G.

 

I didn't realize that the 275.50 was out.

So, I can't attest to how well the modded inf provided at laptop2go performs, but the one provided by Atmosk works great. Able to adjust the brightness and everything

Thank you very much good sir. +rep 4 u

 

My score from before Verde is above. Just upgraded to Verde: 2206. Close to a 10% increase in performance! Fantastic! Thanks so much for the modified inf. +rep.

 

For those of you who have 6970m, be careful with the latest bios version. Version 1.01.11/1.00.07 may support 560m but doesn't work well with 6970m, it was responsible for my 3dmark06/05 low scores (games were affected too). I have reflashed 1.01.06/1.00.4 and scored 19500 again (instead of 16500).

 

Ah good -- I'd asked about this a couple of times but no one else stuck their hand up saying that theirs did it too. I definitely feel better knowing it's not just me.

FWIW I have tried to detect any similar hitch in the fans under normal use (even under load when they have ramped up quite a bit) and found none that I can feel or hear.

Having a look at available BIOS/EC updates was suggested, but I'm not in a rush to upgrade the BIOS without it being a real problem and/or some other clear benefit noted for one of the newer versions.

 

Grabbed, thanks bro.

 

Thanks. The ironic thing is they are charging +$95 now for the 95% matte screen, but same price for regular matte or 95% glossy. So I will probably go with 95% glossy. It wasn't really the glossy that bothered me, although I do prefer matte, it was more the viewing angles and they seem to be so much better with those 95% screens.

Yeah, I'm configuring without an optical drive. Putting in a 750GB HDD + Intel 120GB I already own. Good to hear Bad Company 2 runs well. Only hoping BF3 runs decently at medium settings on it at least.

 

Once you go matte you never go back. I don't even know why companies entertain glossy. I've never seen anyone suggest they prefer glossy. Who needs a mirror for a screen?

Still, with this particular deal, I have to agree with your logic.

 

Matte screens USED to be the normal, and glossy hard to find. Then for some stupid reason "the man" decided on glossy for EVERYTHING and matte pretty much non-existent. Still debating on going matte or not for $95 more. I may end up biting though because I do love matte, especially since you can get such a high quality screen for $95 ($92 with 3% discount lol).

 

Wait a few weeks and the regular matte screen should be back in stock for the 8130. Nobody offers the regular matte screen (non 95% gamut but part of the cost, not $95 extra) at the moment because Sager is out of stock, that's why the glossy has become the default option at the moment.

The 8130 is fantastic if you overclock the GPU. The portability is great but quite frankly if the matte screen was not the default option at the time I bought it, I would have bought the 8150 and paid extra for the matte screen.

 

I'd rather get the glossy 95% screen than the stock matte to be honest. I just don't want the viewing angle issues like I had on my NP8170.

Price difference between the 8130 and 8150 configured same is about $100 more for the 8150. I'd rather put that $100 towards a better screen. And I just don't like the rubberized finish to be honest. I don't use the touchpad much as it is because I hate touchpads, and having the annoying rubber tacky surface would be even worse for when I do use it. With my history I also realized as much as I'd like to keep my laptop for years (upgradability) I never do. Longest I kept a laptop was two years, usually swap one out in 18 months.

It may be a week or two before I order anyhow so guess will see what's available at that time.

 

Whoaaaa nellie! Stop the presses!

HTWingnut, are you actually jumping ship and buying an 8130? What happened? lol

Mr. Mysterious

 

Definitely bite the bullet and buy the matte. You'll be staring at the screen so many hours throughout the lifetime of the product that you'll just be paying a fraction of a penny per minute to not strain your eyes.

The regular matte screen is back at XoticPC.

I still need to overclock my GPU, now, just to find the page that talks about how to do it....

 

Yeah. A matte screen protector costs ~ $30-$35. I'd rather spend another $60 and make it part of the screen.

Just download nVidia Inspector.

NVIDIA Inspector 1.9.5.5 Available - 3D Tech News, Pixel Hacking, Data Visualization and 3D Programming - Geeks3D.com

Not hard to do, just go easy and start by upping clocks 10MHz at a time. Do GPU, Shader, and memory individually and find their "breaking" point. Then run them all together and see how it does.

Just remember Shader clock needs to be at least 2x GPU clock otherwise it WILL crash.

 

Yeah, they also get pretty dirty. Just took mine off of my HP to get it ready for sale because it looked scuffed up.

Thanks for the link to nvidia inspector!

 

Just joined your ranks. I returned my 5165 for this baby. I just couldn't resist the better cooled system and better graphics to boot. Very excited about this purchase.

 

Oh nice, Works completely. Rep for you sir. Thank you! (side note) Will the 560 ever be fully supported I wonder?

 

Awesome. Welcome to the family.

Mr. Mysterious

 

Welcome to the bright side.

 

Fixed

Mr. Mysterious

 

The Dark Side is Alienware.

 

Oh it is? Well we Sagers need a better moniker than "bright side".

Makes us sound like we're maddeningly happy happy happy people.

Mr. Mysterious

 

Okay, with new beta drivers I get a P2613 3DMark11. Nice!

update: 3d markvantage P10772

 

Actually I spoke with Xotic again

 

Hey,

Actually that other slot works just fine and they are supposed to come with them. Its wired a little differently than the wlan slot, it will explicitly NOT take another wifi card as there are certain pins wired directly to the embedded controller for wifi (Turn on and off and the led), and there is now an extra pin wired into the wlan port (slot #1) specifically for bluetooth detect).

Otherwise there is mPCIE, 3.3V and USB on that extra port. So any mPCIE device that is NOT a wlan device will work just fine, 3G card, mPCIE tv tuner, mPCIE usb 3.0 controller etc etc.

If you want that page out of the spec doc that has the pinouts then please PM me and i'll be glad to send you the side by side comparison of the pinouts.

So yes they are supposed to come that way, the old bluetooth cards from last gen were actually hooked up via a 4-pin USB cable NOT mPCIE.

 

Mr. Mysterious and others playing The Witcher 2 - what are your settings for advanced graphics options? What do you find works best with the 8130's power? Which patch fixed the speed issues?

 

I haven't started playing TW2 yet, I'm still on ACII But I asked the question in this thread and got my answers:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/584825-my-witcher-2-review-3.html

Mr. Mysterious

 

With what card? That is like 400 points above everyone else's. And mine got to like 2100 with a small OC.

 

The biggest decision I need to make now is whether I'm going to play The Witcher 2 on my Alienware at my desk, or on my Sager in bed on my laptop chill mat.

>=)

 

Would this have something to do with the fact that pins 3 and 5 (reserved for Wireless Coexistence Interface) are disconnected?

 

Same thing you have. 560m.

 

Sure, do you have a link?
Still though, maybe mine is just broken, that's always a possibility

 

Just canceled my order for the NP5175. I ordered it on June 3rd, and it's June 22nd today, so it has been 13 business days, and still no delivery. Xotic has been once again, great with customer service, but Sager on the other hand, I'm pretty disappointed in.

My friend ordered an 8130 a week ago, and it came in 3 days. Shouldn't it be first come first serve? Seriously Sager?

But on topic, after seeing my friend's 8130 and glowering with envy, I decided to cancel my 5175 order and go for the 8130 after I get some more cash.

Anyway, I have one question - how's the DPI on the screen? Is text readable in Windows 7 with 100% DPI scaling? I don't want it to scale at all because I think Windows looks really ugly when the font is adjusted.

Thanks in advance everyone.

 

Say what? If you want the screenshot of the pinouts just shoot me a PM =)

 

Yeah I meant a link to the pic, and about the reason for my wwan card not being detected, it could be that mine is just broken or something, but I find that hard to believe.

 

All depends on the configuration. If everything is in stock and no problems testing, then sure, they will ship it out right away.

 

100% DPI scaling is the default. At 1920x1080, you've got a ton more pixels on the screen than a lower res, but it's still very sharp. Obviously, this means text will be smaller and you may need to be closer to the screen than a 1366x768 screen would require, but it's definitely not hard to read.

You said your friend had the P151HM1 (8130)- you may want to see if he'll let you play with it for a bit. Hands on is the easiest way to see if you like it

As for build/ship time- different models can be shipped at different speeds. It depends entirely on parts and availability. This is true with pretty much any product though, not just laptops.

 

Wow, that was pretty quick service. I wonder how that is. I ordered my 8130 on June 10th. I got an update this afternoon letting me know that my laptop is now being shipped to Nebraska then back to California. I really wanted it by this week too. The wait has been quite tedious for me. I know that I wanted to cancel a few times and go with something else but I've held on.

 

Hang in there, it's worth the wait. Mine took about 3 weeks from order to shipment received.

 

I hope mine makes it soon also. Order was processed on 6/15 and payed for UPS blue 2 day and hope to receive it next week.

 

Dear Forumers, need some precious help from you all.

Recently I bought a Clevo Horize P151HM1B.

After Installing the OS, Drivers, Programs( Microsoft Office, Flash, etc) I keep getting constant BSOD.

What may be the reason behind this? I believe it would be a software issue. But I installed too many software, how can I Troubleshoot which one might be the problem?

 

What does the BSOD say?