depends on wat maker...

Intel will allocate the memory dynamically

Nvidia and ATi needs to configure within the BIOS...

Aero will disable itself when running fullscreen apps...

side bar also...

since u can't see it, it's a waste of resource to run it...

not great...

1 yr ago BenQ claim the 16ms on it's S41 is the fastest in the world

now it's S42 BenQ claim the 8ms is the fastest in the world...

8ms is still acceptable...

but imagine before last yr... if fastest is really 16ms... then all the other so called gaming laptops are like wat?? 20ms??? lol

refer to BBXiong's post on top of urs and a few in the previous page for benchmarks in games...

his BenQ S42 uses 9600M GT...

9600M GT and can't run crysis???

did u update the driver??

if i remember correctly, Forceware 179.13 gives the best performance so far... but only 32-bits ones are available in laptopvideo2go

majority of the drivers in laptopvideo2go are designed for desktop cards...

thus the trick is to download the driver from laptopvideo2go, unpack it, then download the *.inf and replace the one in the driver pack... u should be able to install after that...

it's at laptopvideo2go as well...

for Forceware 180 series, he removed PhysX from the driver...

no XPS for me now... they still haven't update the spec...

juz checked dell's webby and they are still using Santa Rosa Refresh with GeForce 8...

u kidding me???

many cards even struggle to have 20fps at low resolution...

dun forget, 8800M GTX has the same hardware spec as 8800GS, not 8800GTX...

This post has been edited by astria: Nov 13 2008, 02:08 AM

relax bro... these ppl are juz expecting to much from a laptop... thinking that 8800M GTX = 8800GTX...

hmm, how abt G50V??? 15.4" but still comes with a GeForce 9700M GT...

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15731

SLI means running 2 cards at the same time to produce even more performance, but take note 1+1 =/= 2 here... u get at most 1.7 with SLI...

the first number denotes the GeForce family, the second number denotes the market intended for, and the suffix breaks down the series further (such as some restriction, lower clock, etc)

for the suffix, Nvidia's way is:

Ultra > GTX > GTS > GT > GS/GSO

eg, 8800M GTX has better performance than 8800M GTS even though both are 8800M...

usually the bigger the 2nd number the better...

but take note some cards may look like they ve the same spec...

eg

1) 8800M GTX and 9800M GTS... they both ve the same specification, even model number is different
2) 9650M GT and 9600M GT... both have same spec, but 9650M uses a 55nm GPU, while 9600M uses a 65nm GPU
3) 8700M GT and 8600M GT... both ve the same spec, but 8700M runs at a higher clock
4) 8600M GT and 8600M GS... same family, but the GS has half the number of Streaming Processors of the GT
5) 8600M GS and 8400M GT... same spec, but 8600M runs at a higher clock
6) 8400Ms... GT has 16SP, 128-bits memory interface, GS has 16SP and 64-bits, while G has 8SP and 64-bits

www.notebookcheck.com is a good place to check the GPUs...

btw, 8800GTX is a desktop card...

generally, T has higher clock speed and more cache than P, with the exception of P9500, same spec as T9400 but consumes less power

bro, Centrino is a platform name comprising of Core 2 Duo, Intel chipset mobo and Intel wireless adapter...

T series is found in Montevina as well... eg T9600, T9400

however, a P series is added in Montevina to further define the max TDP of the CPU...

in the days of Santa Rosa, T = 39W max TDP, one step lower is L = 19W

in Montevina, T still = 39W, P = 29W and L remains as 19W...

nothing's fair or unfair here...

when it comes to overclock, luck always plays the biggest part...

it's not the makers' problem even if u can't oc at all... their main concern is that the cards work at the default setting, that's all...

no such thing as guarantee can oc one...

that's y ppl always hunt for different batch of hardware (eg CPU stepping, non reference GC) in a hope to get a good oc out from it...