astria...hold urself.. DX11 is coming to town...

@astria: why not consider nvidia, they already have openCL support, and CUDA is also quite widely used, compared to ATi Stream

hey yo....havent seen u for sometime...

CUDA is Nvidia's solution to use their graphic card to do some general processing..like converting movies or photo processing
i tried before using this software called Badaboom, the conversion speed is real time, or slightly faster then real time..

OpenCL is a common API for graphic card to do general processing, it's kinda new yet, but both red and green camp are adopting to it, and the best part is, it's card company(nvidia and ati) independent, and i recall it's even platform independent...meaning linux also can have openCL..with that, in game cpu calculation, maybe like havok, if Intel ever allow, will also be calculated using GPU, so that developers can throw in more realistic effects, i am still not sure how far can openCL go, but i think it can help out video conversion and stuff also

kidna suspect HDD is dying...

is john here? today met him at PC fair...he's working at the Asus booth at the laptop hall...nice chatting with u john..haha

i think dackson already been warned once ler..u all better be careful...

and if u plan to get some notebook cooler for the GPU temp to drop...be reminded that the GPU is at the left front side..so if u want the notebook cooler to cool down the gfx card, then u'll have to get some cooler that extends to there..

not that i know off...power adapter and battery also both are satisfying after 1 year usage...

if that still fail..let us know also..i have another alternative method to install

@astria: but then why would ppl wanna disable it? i tot it saves quite a lot of power if left on?

no la..actually, go to nvidia control panel, there is a display aspect ratio of soemthing..then there is a scaling, right now i think ur option is no scaling, try using use nvidia scaling, i think that one would force non-wide screen games to full screen, but beware, the graphics will become slightly blurry and long...

eh john..just notice u are in one of the photo i take...
btw how's business over there?ncie chatting with u the other day..

i tot that one is ur shop one?

and they say dell have the best customer service in malaysia....

same batch as mine eh...go ahead dude..even P8400 can handle applications quite well already, no hangs and minimum laggy experience so far (except for those lame facebook games that my brother plays..)

ya la..where else u can get a laptop that can play medium crysis or max setting with 2x AA in L4D with that price..

but i have a suggestion, if ur table have space and u still have budget,also and if u don really move ur laptop too much, get an external keyboard, cos when u play game the GFX card gonna be damn hot, 90C++ in some driver versions..and graphic card is located in the left palm rest area, that would affect the overall usage experience..but other then that, no big deal..speaker kinda kick arse also in terms of clarity

actually laptops internal design all different depending on models/manufacturer one...
for s42, i recall left palm rest GPU, further up is CPU, then right arm rest is HDD slot

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Added on December 9, 2009, 2:14 pm@evo: all this while i been knowing that ION is the future of netbooks/nettops
intel's GMA is just too weak to handle ANYTHING...atom as well..i am waiting for VIA Nano + ION 2 to come out..that one prolly will prove gaming in netbook possible

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Dec 9 2009, 02:14 PM

@astria: looks interesting as well...but since ION2 they say gonna have at least 2x the shader and say performance also gonna be at least doubled..i wanna see how it end up..
how powerful is the 3200 HD anyway?? cos if i got netbook also i sure do gaming..maybe some light/not that time consuming games..