wow. nice price u got there   Graphics performance no much comments lar maybe little faster than HD 3200 because of dedicated VRAM. What do u think of the heat and battery life?

Yes, it can support 2GB modules and speed up to 800mhz. In fact the AMD 780G chipset runs best with 800mhz. So you can use 4GB DDR2 800 without any problems. CQ40's service manual confirms this. Furthermore, Vista x64 drivers are available so you can utilize the 4gb RAM.
dont trust the sales rep. u can get the service manual from this models support page from the first post.

I think all HD3xxx series are DX10.1.

Btw mine is 10.1(confirmed in Everest)

hi, do u got cpu heat issue with amd rm-70?wat is the idle temperature n under load temperature?

Mine is 4.0. Graphics is the lowest score.

That is the lowest score. How much HD 3200 can score? The only difference between HD34xx and HD3200 is dedicated VRAM and faster clockspeed.
1. According to CPU-Z, its M780G. Everest couldnt detect the mobo though. According to service manual its M770. Anyone can open up and confirm?

2. I couldnt it. But power saving is available. At idle, it runs at 110mhz but doesnt switch to chipset.

3. I dont think so although I hoped it could.

Yeah, the price is attractive for the specs but dont expect good performance and long battery life.
Yes, that would be the optimum speed.

No hybrid graphics. Either HP disabled the integrated graphics or the chipset used is not M780G.

haha, i sold off my c770tu already.. now waiting for 125ax to arrive after raya..

Hey check out what the max temperature on your chipset and the core?I found that mine is 83 celcius !

I seriously need to reconsider my option. So scary.

ur lappy feel hot ?

Guys need your expertise here, could u help me out on this choosing 3 models interms of

1. Heat(which 1 more cooler)      CQ45-127TX
2. Battery Life (which 1 better last longer) CQ45-127TX
3. Gaming ( 9200M GS or HD3450 ) Nvidia always has driver issue........some games Nvidia can't rander propertly. like Iron Man
4. Performance (which processor is faster) Whole system.....CQ40-133AX....For CPU alone Intel P8400

CQ45-127TX
-P8400 2.0Ghz
-Nvidia GF 9200M GS 256mb

CQ40 -133AX
-RM72 2.1Ghz
-ATI HD3450 256mb

CQ40-125AX
-RM70 2.0Ghz 256mb
-ATI HD3450

Appreciate for pointing out the point

wah, so long didn't came here and the pages is 50 something liao ar??

the price of the cq40 is dropping fast man......

and i notice a lot of ppl didn't read tru the 1st page..... asking the same questions..... again and again.....
for now the tech is so fast and great, any laptop with 2Ghz and 2 GB ram will do anything for u, like documents, movies, games(depend on the graphic also), presentations, surfing nets, programming, encoding, decoding.

the matter is about money..... got budget get Intel proc, cos they really great in this field. low budget like me stick to AMD, this proc already can do those things.
Intel proc really faster than AMD when both are same speed GHz. do google for comparison...... google..... things that dunno read more and google. just dun repeat the things again and again, that double works.....

the hard disk can always change if u like or wanna upgrade, be sure its SATA or IDE, the ram is 2 slot for a lot of laptops. but i dunno read from where that this laptop with rs780 chipset can support till 8GB ram. should be the white paper of this laptop... forgot. so 4 GB is not a problem for this laptop, i myself are using 4GB of rams.

honestly cq40 is really a hot lappy, mine when gaming will probably go to 100++celcius, when playing nfs undercover. other game is around 90++celcius. somemore in aircon room....   but i do believe that no more than 110 celcius is ok cos the pc components can tahan more than that.

games that can play on this lappy:
Counter Strike
Warcraft 3, this included DOTA...... :Mid settings
COD4: low settings
NFS MW: low settings
NFS Undercover: low settings
Bioshock: low settings
But dun expect to set the settings to max...   of course do off the AA effect in CCC and in game.

why not choose nvdia graphic card?? cos their graphic card cannot tahan high tempreture, why? cos their soldering on the board got problems. there already a lot of news about this incident. do google. cos i scared they will appear on the 9200 series, so i choose ATI insteat of Nvidia, i dont want to return my laptop to hp as i'm overseas now, its too frustrate when u are waiting ur laptop back from service center and will dunno take how long....

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Added on December 7, 2008, 2:13 pm
i'm curious why a lot of ppl say 64-bit OS no go???
i'm using it now, and its just same as 32-bit OS.... driver is not a problem, u can always download from hp support page...
the software?? there is WOW64 for 32-bit software to use....

so, buying laptop (freedos) during pc fair, wat should we pay attention for?
or we can only check the thing they given after install OS?

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Added on December 7, 2008, 3:12 pm
u have cd? or dl from website? can pm me the link?

so, actually Vista 64 bit have no problem running 32 bit programs?

Hi, I'm new here.

I want to ask a question.

1: Will the price go up after Pc fair? can only buy it after 18 Dec      Price will only go down for  PC.

2: Can Vista play older games? like red alert 2 or older.
    Totally new to vista..only know XP  as i still used my year 2002 PC     Yes, I am playing Age of empires 2....his is even older

3: Do vista premium come in 64bit ? Cant afford original vista ultimate.  Yes.......need to order.....cost extra RM20 to RM30 extra then 32bit

Lastly, how hot this laptop, because i will use it in no air con room and probably no notebook cooler. 

Anyway, Thanks

Hope to join you all as Proud owner of cq40