Hi. Im a Presario Cq40-401AU user.. I stacked it with a corsair gaming memory 2 + 2 GB 800Mhz ram. I can run games like Warcraft ( high settings no lag) COD4 (med settings), COD5 (med settings but not all) Hellgate London Med settings. Installed vista ultimate 32 with no fail.. quite satisfied. the speakers is loud also.. hehehe...

Which shop selling CQ40-401AX at RM1899 currently?

Sadly, not so much more than a common RM20 3-fan cooler. (just a little cooler)
Only look much cooler, got additional usb slot
Did I already how much cooler it look

when the temperature reach 100 c the game you play start to lag .

only apply for high intensive game , i play dota ok , pes2008 all high ok

left4dead sometime will sudden lag , awhile

lucky , me get the cm infinite free , since my sis bought it for me , but not yet yet my place

This post has been edited by fcuk90: May 10 2009, 12:12 AM

@shady:
the mic works in skype for me. the green bars are showing in the mic test in skype.

Thanks for the update

Looks like I want to try Win 7 again.

Btw, I noticed now the core clock for the HD 3450 is down to 300mhz from 500mhz. I suspect HP lower down the clock speed through the latest BIOS to prevent overheating and prolong battery life. Can anyone check the core clock for HD 3450? Im very sure the speed was 500mhz when I got it first time.

ya mine 401ax bought in april is 300mhz

isn't it's 1 of the features called powerplay for AMD? where they will reduce your gpu clock speed when you're idle?

Mine is 500mhz
seem like the latest bios has pull down to 300mhz.

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Added on May 10, 2009, 12:08 pmsomebody suggest me use table fan to cold down my lappy.

This post has been edited by lolikid: May 10 2009, 12:08 PM

Just installed Win 7 RC and tried the mic. Seems like with Windows driver, the mic functions fine but with IDT driver there will be problem so I sticked with Win 7 drivers

Maybe the latest or previous BIOS lower down the clocks

Yes, during idle the speed will be 110mhz. But HP pull the 3D clocks down to 300mhz, which is 200mhz down from 500mhz. Expect up to 40% of performance drop during heavy 3D apps.

Which BIOS you are currently using? Maybe I want to try downgrade to old BIOS.

Maybe its just my machine. I believe that it has always been 300mhz, anyone with the lower bios version that F42 can try gpuz or AtiTrayTools and see that the core clock speed is not 500. But others like everest and the catalyst information tab show 500mhz. There're a few users having the same issue posted a screenshot of the clock speeds on the old thread.

I updated to version F42, and now it shows 300mhz on all gpu monitoring utility/catalyst, but i didnt notice any speed drops at all. If anything it got just a tad bit faster when i benchmark my games since the bios updates the amd agesa code to improve stability and compatibility.

Anybody dare to downgrade to the lowest version F.03 and see if got improvement anot?

This post has been edited by sinchro: May 10 2009, 01:06 PM

Why downgrade Bios?

im using BIOS F36

mine bios using f42..that you listed in the front page

Im very sure with previous bios, my clock speed is 500. Even Catalyst Control Center shows 500mhz. Now with Cat 9.4 for Win 7, my core clock is only 300mhz in CCC. Im not sure its driver or BIOS which lower down the clock speed. Anyway I dont play much game with my laptop so it doesnt really matter but 200mhz reduction in core speed is huge performance drop since its already a slow chip.

@fcuk90
I think is processor that cause lag, I play l4d with window mode when a bunch of monster appear the CPU usage will increase till 100% and lag a while.. same with when playing GTA iv
However i do agree with temperature very hot..Intel done better in these

This post has been edited by kenichi: May 10 2009, 05:39 PM

last time 500, now 300. i think after upgrade ati catalyst

do ur cm infinite help much in cooling??

i said that catalyst also dont show it correctly, use atitraytools then u'll see what i mean. gpuz works too.

since the performance has been drop down, how was the lappy heat?