a Mini review for Samsung R480 core i5 with geforce 330m

My r480 core i5 430m with geforce 330m has no problem playing games like
L4D2 at high setting, even when the zombie is rushing ,
I never tried cod mw2, i really don't believe there will be problem running it at high setting.


about able to play online game fluently,
that depend on the game,,
some game depend on cpu more, some GPU more..

but to me , having a balance system is important.
core i5 with geforce 330m should be able to play most game at high setting, if it can't just reduce the setting abit.

(about the xbox quality,
most PC games at med graphic setting should looks atleast as good as the xbox 360
so the R580 should be able to give you better then xbox 360 graphic in gaming



the core i5 520 is even faster then the r480's core i5 430

 

update the3dmark2006score
with driver from samsung.ca
8.16.11.8864
the score went up by 300
7318
sm3 3019
sm2 2999
cpu 2534


a big increase from stock driver
8.16.11.8787
score 6992

 

is it just me,?? i just bought r480 with 330m gpu
after i upgrade my vga nvidia driver to the samsung latest one, and the system will crash after 5-10 mins of gaming.
(tried SF4, sim3, CS:S , and nba 2k10) all crash after 5-10 mins
i have dual boot windows 7 32 and 64 bit in this laptop.
and i even tried in both windows, Both of them crash with new samsung nvidia driver.

so is it just me or is there something wrong with the driver.

in windows 7 64 when it crash. the screen will have all kinds of lines , articfacts etc.
and
in windows 7 32 it will just give me a black screen.....


last note this is a new laptop only bought it yesterday.....
i even reinstalled my own win7 64 bits, it still crashes with new driver

tho when i use old driver itwon't crash..

 

I didn't have that problem,
tried both driver from samsung,
i recommand using the hwmonitor to monitor the temp of your laptop 's cpu and gpu

download from here
http://www.cpuid.com/
run the game in window mode and then keep an eye on the temperature both of your cpu and gpu.

 

gpu is fine, but the cpu temp is like 56-60 C...

idle OMG

 

so what's your cpu temp.
and gpu

my gpu temp is even loader than cpu ..
gpu 58 playing games, cpu core 0 = 53c , core 1 = 59 c idle ....something is wrong

 

when idle right now..

39 and 37 the two cpu core.
gpu idle at 41

when playing games
the cpu and gpu could get to like 80
i have done furmark stress test on the gpu in the review in page one..
you can see the max temp my gpu could reach

 

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