ZOMG updated my Qosmio G35-AV

hi,

i wanted to share my recent experiences with my Qosmio G35-AV650.

This is just isn't the same machine anymore. I had no idea it would make this much difference. I just setup a dual AMD 64 machine for my sister over thanksgiving holiday, and i just decided this Toshiba was horrible. So, over the past few days...i did some digging round on the internet...of course, now after tinkering around, I did a complete system restore...and overwrote the computer back to out of the box, and applied the following stuff.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

yes, I do think, you need to do that with a fresh install, reformat. and do that change first. Sometimes it was installing things almost as fast as the windows would come up (using the default Toshiba Ge Force 7600 driver, more on that below). I think my boot time is maybe a minute or so...maybe about a minute and 30 seconds at best, I added a user account and PW, so now boot time has the login screen. Even with activesynch to my handheld, it is nicely improved.

then the other thing....

laptopvideo2go....this is not Toshiba supported, and i have not overclocked anything on the video card yet. I am still looking at the whole coolbits thing for right now. here is a link for the driver....you are on your own if you try it.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

I installed the 91.33 drivers for Nvidia. I tired the 80s, I think the 84.25 version of the drivers, but was getting screen flickers.


what can i say...this doesn't rival the speed of the dual 64, my, the change is completely shocking.

I haven't done any major "benchmarks" because...I use 3dsMax 9 as a program. I am pretty sure I have seen a benchmark using 3dsMax 7 for a BM test. My 3dsMax rendering times have dropped SIGNIFICANTLY and using MENTAL RAY with full caustics AND something called Final Gatherer. Just a FYI, the Toshiba Nvidia Ge Force Go 7600 driver is the pits! The rendering times alone make the chance on the updated driver totally worth it. I will check into some gaming stuff (not a major gamer...) The original driver was sending my system to its knees compared to the new one for simple 3dsMax scenes using Mental Ray. I have no idea what they are doing with Max for the benchmarks, I haven't looked into it exactly.

I don't need the benchmark to see a dramatic improvement. Boot time majorly improved, internet download speeds like 3000 kBps to almost 8000 kBps on a cable modem depending on traffic. And, a major decrease to 3dsMax rendering times....wow.


The change in fixing those two things (ie, the hot fix,and a new driver from Nvidia (which is not supported by Toshiba so be careful if you do it) has been surprising.


Just curious if anyone else has tried anything like this? anyone have the time and resources to do the benchmarks and really look at this?